The register gives this lime the same planting band as the oak at the palace, 1600 to 1700, and unlike the oak it offers no reasoning at all. That is a century of uncertainty stated plainly, and it is the honest position: somebody surveyed a very old lime on an estate east of the town and could not date it more closely than that. So it is either the oldest tree in Apeldoorn or roughly the same age as the palace oak, and there is no way to settle it without a core. What a band that wide does tell you is what the tree looks like. Limes of this age are rarely single clean trunks. They tend to have been cut, layered, split by their own weight and regrown, sometimes hollow, often with the ground around the base thrown up by roots that have had three or four hundred years to spread. A lime is also one of the few trees that can produce a new trunk from a fallen limb that touches soil, which is part of why they last. If you go and can take a girth measurement at 1.30 metres, send it to us. That is the number that would settle this.
In bloom
June to July, when it flowers
The line is our estimate of how much there is to see, not a measurement. Typical for this species where this tree stands; exact weeks shift with the year.
Het Woldhuis 1, east of ApeldoornA very heavy old lime by the estate buildings, likely with multiple stems or an irregular hollowing trunk.
Free. Recorded as visitable in the national register; the tree stands on the estate grounds at Het Woldhuis 1.
About 6 km east of Apeldoorn station, on the Woudhuis side.
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from.
- In the official register: Landelijk Register Monumentale Bomen (Bomenstichting), no. 1687639
- monumentalebomen.nl
- services-eu1.arcgis.com