Project: Prune large native & exotic trees. Remove dead, dangerous & undesirable trees.
“What makes it so special is its incredible collection of mature, rare, exotic trees. I don’t think you’ll find anything else quite like this in Australia.”-- John Patrick, Gardening Australia, 18/07/2009.
Total Tree Care were contracted to undertake extensive pruning work to prepare the many rare and significant trees of Glen Harrow Gardens to prepare them for transformation into a tree-top adventure park. The site had been left to grow wild for many decades and required weeks of work to make these trees safe for use as a public attraction.
Glen Harrow Gardens was established by English settler and horticulturalist Mr Thomas Cole in 1879. Mr Thomas ran a experimental tree nursery featuring exotic trees and was among the pioneers of discovering which plant species would flourish in the Australian environment. The estate now boasts some of the oldest and rarest trees of their type in Australia, including a magnificent 150-year-old Algerian Oak, believed to be one of the largest of its species in the world, a rare 130 year old Araucaria Laubenfelsii that is the only one of its type in Victoria, and two "Chinquapin" Japanese Oaks also believed to be the only ones in Victoria. Also of interest is the fact the site contains the 3 tallest species of trees in the world. To see in the one place a Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempivirens), Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) and Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is quite unique. And for us, a privelidge to work on them all!
