The White Oak Project

There is a lot to tell about this project. In essence, it was a huge sculpture job centred around a very well known and much loved 150-year-old oak tree at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. On December 27, 2019 there was a catastrophic collapse of the entire tree. This sort of collapse is extremely rare and was exacerbated somewhat by the cabling so often done around the world to support big trees in unnatural environments. The RBGV now has a newer system called dynamic cabling which allows the big branches to move more naturally.

The White Oak Project is the brainchild of the Gardens’