THE Bromsgrove man who grew a phallic-shaped tree in his front garden in Sidemoor has chopped it down during a television interview, saying he was getting fed up with the publicity.

Tree surgeon Chris Bishop, who had personally shaped the Cypress tree in his front garden, destroyed it on German television, after a TV company came over to interview him about it.

He said: “It was me that wanted it down, but they came over and after the interview I said ‘I’ll take it down now if you like’.

“They gave me a box of chocolates, that’s the most I’ve made out of my tree. I do miss it very much already, I didn’t think I would to be fair, I was getting a bit fed up of the attention. I was getting lots of people taking pictures of it.

“I’ve done several radio interviews and all sorts, and it was getting too much. I was thinking ‘is there nothing else going on in the world to talk about other than my bush?’, so I chopped him down, and I do miss him.”