I've been toying with the idea of planting a Monkey Puzzle Tree, for a number of years now and it probably came about due to some local controversy regarding the felling of a full-grown specimen at a large country pile, where the tree was blocking the supposed view. Now I'm not saying these trees are a local phenomenon, by any means, but you do, or at least I have, started noticing them everywhere in my local neighbourhood and not just in the grounds of larger private houses, They seem to keep cropping up, just about anywhere and in various stages of their development. The only real matter to consider when planting such a tree is they are a long term prospect and will come to dominate their patch of ground, reaching heights of up to 50m.
Araucaria araucana or Monkey Puzzle, so named because it would be a problem for a monkey to climb such a tree, as a slow rate of growth and can live for a thousand years.
Perhaps I've bothered my friends a little too much with my talk of the trees that finally a couple gave me a tree, carefully cultivated at a local garden centre and I will now seek a suitable space where I can hopefully see it grow by at least a few inches!
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