My parents are victims of cowboy tree surgeons who are now blaming my mother.

[rbx1453]

3 minutes ago, Thesnarlingbadger said:

Right I’m with you now. So bollocks. It is not still growing if it’s a cherry tree so end of discussion. I don’t know if anyone else hear has had a different experience but in the 16 years of doing my job I have never seen a cherry tree come back from a fell. 

By the way I just spoke to my mother to clarify something. My mother said that the tree roots have grown into the neighbour's garden and they are sprouting new trees. Do tree routes sprout new trees like some sort of hivemind? My botanical knowledge has reached its limit. I am honestly confused now, because I have been told here that the tree is dead and can no longer grow roots.

 

(copied and pasted as I originally asked this to another person here)

[Stubby]

1 minute ago, rbx1453 said:

By the way I just spoke to mother to clarify something. My mother said that the tree roots have grown into the neighbour's garden and they are sprouting new trees. Do tree routes sprout new trees like some sort of hivemind? My botanical knowledge has reached its limit. I am honestly confused now, because I have been told here that the tree is dead and can no longer grow roots.

So twice I had explained that they are suckers and twice I have said keep mowing / cutting them off and they will give up FFS !

[coppice cutter]

2 minutes ago, rbx1453 said:

 Do tree routes sprout new trees .........

Yes, they're called "suckers", Mr Stubbs has already dealt with that.

 

13 minutes ago, Stubby said:

That will be suckers . Just keep mowing them off , they will give up in the end .

[monkeybusiness]

Poison the suckers and/or the stump with glyphosate (roundup) and all of your problems will go away.

[rbx1453]

2 minutes ago, coppice cutter said:

Secondly, they had no need to do something as retarded as blaming your mum for the suckering problem. I can't imagine they are dull enough to actually think that is correct so they were just making excuses when they had no need to.

Thank you, once again I am not familiar with botanical terminology, what is suckering? My mum has told me the tree is essentially sprouting new baby trees from its roots in the neighbour's garden, but there must be some sort of misunderstanding.

[Bolt]

9 minutes ago, rbx1453 said:

 If I paid for a second opinion from a different tree surgeon, would they be able to call BS on what these guys said?

 

 

 

Insufficient info I’m afraid.

 

Were they supposed to fell and grind out the stump?

 

Maybe they were asked to fell by the estate agent, but advised grinding out the stump and roots as well, only to be told  by the estate agent that that would be an unnecessary expense…..

 

[Steve Bullman]

Cherry trees are reknowned for sending up suckers. Felling the tree will only encourage more../it’s the trees last ditch attempt at surviving. Grinding out the root isn’t going to stop that unless you chased out every single lateral root which likely covers most of your mothers garden.

 

did your mothers watering increase the growth of the suckers and feeder roots? Of course, plants need water so of course they are going to benefit from it.

 

is the tree surgeon blaming your mum a legitimate reason? Well it’s a bit over the top, might have been better to admit that removing the stump won’t necessarily stop suckering.

 

good advice in this thread about using roundup. Might take a few hits but will eventually do the job.

 

aside from that I’m not sure what you’re trying to achieve by demonising the tree surgeons who carried out the removal. I doubt they are going to jail. There’s a slim outside chance that they might have to run away and join the foreign legion, but quite unlikely 

[rbx1453]

3 minutes ago, Stubby said:

So twice I had explained that they are suckers and twice I have said keep mowing / cutting them off and they will give up FFS !

I apologise, I didn't know what a sucker was until right just now. So are these suckers basically baby trees that will continue growing if you don't mow them? But if you mow them, then the roots will not continue growing?

[coppice cutter]

1 minute ago, rbx1453 said:

Thank you, once again I am not familiar with botanical terminology, what is suckering? My mum has told me the tree is essentially sprouting new baby trees from its roots in the neighbour's garden, but there must be some sort of misunderstanding.

No misunderstanding, that's what it's doing.

 

Not all trees propagate themselves and spread in this way, but Wild Cherry does, and it's very good at it.

[Doug Tait]

I imagine the Estate Agent asked them to remove the tree to ground level, they did, but maybe should have pointed out beforehand that residual energy supplies in the stump may go to produce suckers (which the OP is calling roots). It is perhaps not technically dead yet, but certainly the suckers are a last gasp attempt.