2023-06-27 09:29:00
The fallen tree seems to form a dividing hedge between the path and the lawn. One might almost believe that it was “done on purpose”. ©EdA
This incident might have gone virtually unnoticed because the Robinia lay down in the large lawn of the Jardin de la Reine, by the side of the path, forming an island of greenery there that one might imagine having been created voluntarily for the purpose to delimit the path bordering the pond and the lawn.
Moreover, the event happened at night, regarding a week ago, when obviously no one was in the park at the time. The heavy rains of last week may have facilitated the fall of a birch tree which was close to the Robinia, regarding 17 meters high, and which would have dragged it down when it fell to the ground.
A pruning planned before the next weekend
The mayor of Tournai, Paul-Olivier Delannois, tells us that this false acacia “comes from a clump with several trunks from the same stock”.
He confirms that “it was a dying birch tree, hidden in the grove behind the acacia, that took it down with it. The pruning team will be on site before this next weekend to clear the two trees.
The state of the stump will also be checked to see if the other trunks do not threaten to fall in the hours or days to come…”
For the moment, it is the pigeons who seem to be happy with this situation if we judge by the number of those who have found refuge in recent days in this hedge as improvised as it is unexpected and imposing.
It is possible that when evoking this fall, some speak more readily of acacia than of locust when evoking the species of the “victim”. It is that these two cousins are very often confused because of their morphological similarities. The first is native to Africa, Australia and South America while the second is European (more specifically from the East).
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