Poisoning

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Building on the former St Georges Mental Hospital...??

 

It's taken this long to make a start...???

 

Also, if it's the trees are where I think they are (they're basically holding up a bankside at one of the entrances), someone's going to have a land slip in their garden soon then....

[Yournamehere]

Building on the former St Georges Mental Hospital...??

 

It's taken this long to make a start...???

 

Also, if it's the trees are where I think they are (they're basically holding up a bankside at one of the entrances), someone's going to have a land slip in their garden soon then....

 

if you google morpeth limes and pick up the local paper report there's a couple of extra pics there

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Positive they're on the entrance 'hill'...

[Yournamehere]

Oliver Rackham wrote of a jack or a spike of some sort that 'they' used to kill off the native broadleaf trees by stabbing and poisoning them before replanting with the conifer plantatons. I've just had a quick look but can't find the relevant section. Might have been a similar operation.

 

Just for completeness.

He called it '...a jimjam a kind of poisoned axe'

Rackham. O. (New Naturalist) Woodlands. Collins 2006.

 

Interestingly (FSVoI) in the cases he cites it was being used on limes. He goes on to describe the survivors, found when the conifers were cut, as 'hollowed out like a log canoe' and has an illustration of another described as '... a needle eye tree showing characteristic growth'

[Mark J]

Just for completeness.

He called it '...a jimjam a kind of poisoned axe'

Rackham. O. (New Naturalist) Woodlands. Collins 2006.

 

Interestingly (FSVoI) in the cases he cites it was being used on limes. He goes on to describe the survivors, found when the conifers were cut, as 'hollowed out like a log canoe' and has an illustration of another described as '... a needle eye tree showing characteristic growth'

 

Yup, bastrdios don't want honeydew on their porches.