Thank you to Robert Stewart for sending in this photo he took at Crossbasket Estate of another Monkey Puzzle Tree! Now thought to be around a dozen in Blantyre. Robert noted there were several younger trees nearby and added, “do you know that the semi-precious stone ‘Jet’ is fossilised monkey puzzle!” I cant help but think this will […]
Many Blantyre residents will recognise this tree. It is of course, the Monkey Puzzle tree in Victoria Street. Located at the corner of the Crescents, on the junction with Victoria Street, just across from the chemist shop. The tree is known to have been there over 80 years ago. Tom Martin in Canada attended Calder […]
Blantyre Project reader Margaret Wilson contacted me recently to say “The large tree (my cousins call it a monkey puzzle tree) at the front of High Blantyre Cemetery was once planted by my Grannies grave, it was her favourite tree. Guess my Grandad didn’t realize just how big it would grow.” The tree certainly has […]