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Tree Rescue/Reshaping/Diseased (i don't know!)


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I have just bought a house, and the back garden has not been maintained/trimmed or anything in 20 years (that's the neighbours estimates)

It has 5 trees in the space where at a push there should only be two!

Three trees within 5 foot of eachother (not good!)

I've attached pictures of my prediciment.

 

The first tree (nearest to the camera) had next to no leaves, and any leaves on it were tiny and hardly green.

The second tree (the tree in question) was the most succesful of the 3, so i decided to save this one.

The third tree, could not really be classed as a tree, it's bark was dark and lumpy bumpy all over, with hardly any growth, the growth it did have, was inter-twined with the middle tree, with shoots attempting to sprout from the trunk in desperation for light.

Then, to top it all off, two conifers to the rear (i think they are conifers anyway) and a 12-14foot hedgerow to the left of all the trees which i have taken back very aggressivly, if i loose these bushes, i will re-plant, but i had no choice really, everything was inter-twined!

 

Anyway, picture 1. (BEFORE)

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(Yes there's three trees in that central bunch!)

 

Picture 2 (DURING)

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The front tree is un-touched, the back tree in this picture is now just a 6foot stump, the hedgerow on the left has been halved in height (above the greenhouse) and two-three large branches have been removed from the midde (green) tree, one from the left, one from the right which was at the raised ground level.

 

Picture 3 (AFTER)

 

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This is after the removal of the two trees which were very unhealthy indeed!

 

My question is, i have already removed a big chunk of this remaining tree in the centre, during winter would i be able to shorten the branches to the left, to the boundry line (above the half dead headges) or should i leave that until next year.

 

Second question is, the majority of the tree is now on the left, with one branch to the right, as you can see. Do you think with a couple of years work i would be able to train the tree to fill this gap, to have a nice full canopy again?

 

Third question is, there's growths on the limbs, quite large ones at that! i'll post some closer pictures up later, but are these going to effect the long term health of the tree? They seem to all originate from joints.

I'm guessing these have come from the trees being waaaaay too overcrowded with no airflow.

 

Thanks in advance!

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