General Tree pics

[Rich Rule]

Thanks for that david.

 

I would just like to know why someone would graft a tree onto a rotten stump, or would this happen naturally? Never really seen to many grafts or know anything about them.

 

I don't think the stump would have been rotten when it was grafted.

[David Humphries]

Thanks for that david.

 

I would just like to know why someone would graft a tree onto a rotten stump, or would this happen naturally? Never really seen to many grafts or know anything about them.

 

Often the rooting stock of a graft can be less resilient to decay, like in this grafted copper beech. (Ganoderma in this case)

 

Could be that a basal decay specialist may be confined to just the basal region and not spread up into the trunk.

 

Any shots of the leaves on your maple James?

 

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[Ian Flatters]

Thinking the same, but now i think about it it used to be a massive stately home but is now a care home which has been extended in everyway so that tree would have been in the middle of a wood. Maybe it was naturally done, or a mad gardener experimenting

 

This place has such a wide varied selection of mature trees massive trees some rare trees aswell gareth tells me some tree guy from europe well known is making a trip there to look at the trees forget his name now though.

 

A lot of Whitebeams are grafted onto Hawthorn stock and most the apples i have seen have been base grafted and that huge silver pendant lime in chapelfield gardens next to the mexican place is a great example of a graft. +Laburnocytisus 'Adamii' is probably the best example of a hybrid graft laburnham and broom.

[David Humphries]

here's on of my favorits

 

That looked fun Wouter

 

How much of a reduction was that?

 

 

 

 

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[Wouter]

The whole tree we pruned about 10 to 15 % crown reduction.

The last part, in the pic, was above a greenhouse and did some more reduction over there. I will search for the series with the whole tree and post some more in time.

 

And indeed is was fun, pulley saver installed in the top, and two redirects and still a far way out to get to the part where my mate took a pic.

One of the bigger popular trees I have pruned over here.

[David Humphries]

The whole tree we pruned about 10 to 15 % crown reduction.

The last part, in the pic, was above a greenhouse and did some more reduction over there. I will search for the series with the whole tree and post some more in time.

 

And indeed is was fun, pulley saver installed in the top, and two redirects and still a far way out to get to the part where my mate took a pic.

One of the bigger popular trees I have pruned over here.

 

Look forward to further images

 

 

 

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[Wouter]

Ok, here they are.

- double redirect

- tree before and after pruning

- my mate up in the tree

[David Humphries]

Very nice work.

 

How long did it take?

 

 

 

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[silky fox]

Great image of the double redirect Vouter!

[Wouter]

It took a day with 2 climbers to prune it, with nice coffee breaks in between, gotta love SRT access ;-) makes the coffe breaks better.

 

On the pic my mate is on, last in the row we trow a line up in the branch we couldn't reach safely from out the tree and made from the ground a anchor point in wich he could traverse to this particulary branch.

I have pruned some bigger popular trees over here but never ever had to use 2 redirects, this cause of the widely spread out crown structure, the images don't quite capture what it's like in real, like allways. ;-)