Near the village of Tolkamer located on the so-called Gelders Island runs a path three thick willows, the thickest of the three has the gigantic trunk circumference of 7.87m (measured at 1.30m height). This makes it the thickest willow in the Netherlands and is number 8 in the top 10 thickest trees in the Netherlands.
The tree was planted around the year 1757, making it about 260 years old (ed. Gijs van Schip, Jul 26, 2017). There are still two of these thick willows here, one with a girth of 6.66m (the second thickest willow in the Netherlands) and one with a girth of 5.70m.
However, the tree unfortunately lost its first place after part of the trunk broke.
The willow in the photo is one of the other two.
My name is René Jonkhout , I am married and father of 3 grown-up children, I am 53 years old and live in the beautiful region of the Liemers.
Together with my wife I started photographing in 2017 and in the beginning this was mainly discovering the world of..
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