{"id":297890,"date":"2025-07-28T07:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297890\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:16:17","slug":"national-trust-saltrams-tallest-tree-in-garden-to-be-felled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297890\/","title":{"rendered":"National Trust Saltram&#8217;s tallest tree in garden to be felled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The tallest tree at a National Trust garden in Devon, believed to be about 150 years old, will be felled amid safety concerns.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National Trust said the large Monterey pine tree at the 500-acre (about 200-hectare) Saltram estate near Plympton cannot be saved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tree, which is about 30m (98ft) high, has two large vertical cracks, and has developed a fungus, which the trust said could indicate potential decay to its root system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement to staff and volunteers, head gardener Martin Stott said the tree had been monitored regularly with detailed safety inspections however it presented &#8220;too much of a safety risk&#8221;. Work to dismantle it will begin on Monday and will likely take all week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tallest tree at a National Trust garden in Devon, believed to be about 150 years old, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-297890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114929637054647685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}