At Wormsloe Plantation in the 1890s, a father planted 400 live oak trees to commemorate
his son's birth. The mile long lane is now breath-taking in many ways.
The father also built this gate to commemorate this same son's coming of age two decades later.
The columns and gate are lovely, but the living live oak trees which grow quickly to 50 feet high,
but take decades to spread up to 100 feet wide make the greatest statement years later
whether coming--or going back from the house ruins.
The original home was built of tabby and still stands in ruins from the 1730s.
Some nearby live oaks are much older than the ones that line the drive.
These centurions still guard the house in ruins hundreds of years later.
At the time of the building of the original home, all the trees would have been cleared to allow the breezes from the waterway to cool the home and keep the mosquitoes at bay.
Trees! Love them!
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