Managing Trees with Decay & Dysfunction

[David Humphries]

Declining Acer in a shrub bed

 

interesting lower epicormic cluster

 

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[David Humphries]

Declining Acer in a shrub bed......

 

Armillaria the culprit here (rhiozomorphs can be seen at the edges of the functioning vascular tissue), as the mulch is continually topped up.

 

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[David Humphries]

Declining Acer in a shrub bed......

 

as an experiment to see how long it lasts (and to probably cheese off the custodians of the shrub bed, due to their excessive over application of mulch ) we've removed the dysfunctional canopy to give it back a shred of aesthetic dignity.

 

 

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[Adam Bourne]

Nice!!

 

I like that

 

 

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[Fredward]

The remaining canopy looks nice; was the epicormic growth also completely dead?

[David Humphries]

Yes Fred

 

I imagine it was an last attempt over a couple of years to add additional foliage from the edge of the callous before the associated roots died off.

 

 

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[pendleton8471]

Hi all I put this post own it own thread to start off when i didn't have much information but have some good pic and would'nt mind your knowledge and expertise on my thought of managing this ash:blushing:

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/76140-inonotus-hispidus-ash.html

[David Humphries]

Hi all I put this post own it own thread to start off when i didn't have much information but have some good pic and would'nt mind your knowledge and expertise on my thought of managing this ash:blushing:

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/76140-inonotus-hispidus-ash.html

 

Hopefully you've now got enough feedback on your original thread ?

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Robinia here from 2011 that had/has a significant colonisation of Perenniporia in both the basal & upper trunk regions.

There was also an instance of trunk vandalism.

 

We got our then apprentice, to do his first reduction.

 

A bit heavy handed and a bit inter-nodal in parts but thought he did a decent job, and got the required amount of canopy removed.

 

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[David Humphries]

Robinia here from 2011 that had/has a significant colonisation of Perenniporia in both the basal & upper trunk regions.

There was also an instance of trunk vandalism.

 

We got our then apprentice, to do his first reduction.

 

A bit heavy handed and a bit inter-nodal in parts but thought he did a decent job, and got the required amount of canopy removed.

 

here it is 3 years on, from earlier today....

 

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