What's going on here then??????

[hazzygawa]

I went to look at a job today and across the garden I spotted this. It seemed to be a reasonably healthy beech tree but it had just snapped clean off from the root ball. It had come off flat and snapped like a carrot.

There is a larger beech next to it and next to that is a med size beech that is completely dead.

The root ball is hard still with water laying on the surface of it. Not sure if that is just old rain.

Can anyone give me any pointers into what is going on??

[wills-mill]

Graft failure? Was it an ornamental beech?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Kretschmaria, and human damage as the vector

[chris23a]

You wear white trainers when out giving quotes?

[hazzygawa]

You wear white trainers when out giving quotes?

 

Thanks for the replies. I will look into it further.

 

What's wrong with what I choose to wear on my feet. They are not the best I know but I was given them and that's all I have apart from the boots of course.

[tommer9]

You wear white trainers when out giving quotes?

What's wrong with what I choose to wear on my feet.

 

Quite.

 

 

[hazzygawa]

Graft failure? Was it an ornamental beech?

 

It looks like a normal beech as I can't think it would be grafted so low.