Turner's Oak at Kew Gardens
The Turner Oak is inspiration to us all...... that sometimes after hardships we can come back stronger London's Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew have many trees, but one has taught us more than all the others combined, that tree is Turner's Oak. The ancient oak, planted in 1798 with a height of more than 16 meters, was starting to look tired and stressed, it had stopped growing well by the 1980's. On the 18th of October 1987, England had a huge storm. 15 million trees were blown over, many of the killed including 700 at Kew Gardens. The 200 year old oak was hit, the tree was torn from the ground, it landed back in the hole where the roots were once buried, it was thought that it had been irrevocably damaged. Garden management staff at Kew, propped the tree with steel beams to stop it collapsing whilst they worked on clearing away smaller trees. When they came to clear Turner's Oak, they discovered it had not only started to grow again, it was revitalised and thriving, ...
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