Knackered Old Beech

[Amelanchier]

Creative management solutions guys and gals??? Situation is the garden of a Georgian property that was the subject of an informal planning app to subdivide the garden so I assume they were planning to keep it???

[Patchwork]

the right stem looks pretty sound, maby just rebrace and reduce, you could cut habitat wedges into the kaned old stem...

[David Humphries]

Looks close to being beyond safe working life expectancy to me.

Garden appears to have some ecological potential.

Sell that angle to the clients

Be Uber radical, Monolith, Coronet and add extra habitat niches, then replant. Maybe even a bit of relief carving for aesthetics

 

But you knew that.

[Patchwork]

haha ok totally missed the lovley black residue comming from the co-dominent attachment. yeah i agree with what Monkeyd said

[Amelanchier]

Lets keep the suggestions angled towards tree health? If Mrs Miggins got your round to save her favourite Beech tree, what would you recommend. Answers on a postcard to ....

[Patchwork]

all i can think of is a reduction, check the bracing and do some of them their fancy tests for decay..

[Pete Mctree]

staged reduction- try and stimulate the growth of an internal canopy allowing further reduction. Thus reducing the overall size more drastically than trad reduction. Then turn everything within the potential faliure zone into a natural wildflower meadow

[Patchwork]

is an internal canopy created by stimulating epicormic growth? or am i thinking of somthing diffrent

[David Humphries]

staged reduction- try and stimulate the growth of an internal canopy allowing further reduction. Thus reducing the overall size more drastically than trad reduction. Then turn everything within the potential faliure zone into a natural wildflower meadow

 

A worthy exercise maybe, if it rocks Mrs Miggins boat.

What Pete suggests would be my prefered method.

Not sure a grafted Copper will take any serious (even phased) reduction though.

 

Speicialy like the wild flower failure zone Pete

 

 

 

 

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[christreeroot]

Is that the famous when bracing goes wrong tree, aie picture etc??