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Anyone know how big or how old Laburnums can grow to? I was working on one today, stripping it of it's almost complete cover of suffocating ivy. I was surprised by how big it was. It was about 12 or maybe 14 inches diameter at ground level where I severed the ivy stems.

 

 

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I took out a long dead stump for someone a couple of years ago that was at least 18" 6 feet off the ground.  Would have been lovely turning wood but was too far gone sadly.

 

As for their age I don't know.

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Wow.

Yep, I know it's nice wood for turning, lovely texture, colour and finishes well. There's two other dead or nearly so laburnum trees in that garden. I took a decent looking chunk yesterday and got my greedy little eyes on more when I go back!

Only problem is that I've found its prone to splitting badly during seasoning when I've kept some before.

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