Re-pollard of ancient Willow

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

 

I already gave mine away by specifying sizes of cuts but will get out the Paint- "brush" as well. Lurkers join in too--no entry fee! If these were all posted in 48 (?) hours, wouldn't we have fun!

 

i will do it in good time, maybe not 48 hours, here in the U.K the fungi are at it big styleeeee and ive got more pressing matters to attend at this moment and for around 2-3 weeks!

 

oh yes, that ol bent of mine!

[treeseer]

i will do it in good time, maybe not 48 hours, here in the U.K the fungi are at it

 

So then your strategies on cutting that Dutch Salix would be all the more timely today, what with all those spores flying about. What would be a better time for your original approach on what sort of infection courts--er, potential niches for biodiversity --an arborist might find apropo' to create?

 

The mushroom hunts over there go on 24/7 for weeks?

 

How many nocturnal species only fruit at night?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

ha ha, so you never hunted the bio luminesence of armillaria sp?

[Fungus]

what with all those spores flying about. What would be a better time for your original approach on what sort of infection courts--er, potential niches for biodiversity --an arborist might find apropo' to create?

 

So the macrofungi infecting the wound with their flying about spores and in future fruiting from the (pollarded) tree are not counted as participants in the potential niches for biodiversity -- a mycologist and ecologist might find apropo' to create -- then ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

So the macrofungi infecting the wound with their flying about spores and in future fruiting from the (pollarded) tree are not counted as participants in the potential niches for biodiversity -- a mycologist and ecologist might find apropo' to create -- then ?

 

Treeseer is only just beginning his journey, Im sure he will discover them and appreciate them all eventualy.

 

He still has his "demons of D" head on:biggrin:

[treeseer]

So the macrofungi infecting the wound with their flying about spores and in future fruiting from the (pollarded) tree are not counted as participants in the potential niches for biodiversity -- a mycologist and ecologist might find apropo' to create -- then ?

 

The short answer: An arborist might find it more apropo' for the tree to close those niches rather than leave them open. There is a difference--our spheres do overlap in many areas but not this one.

 

The longer dumber answer:

The count was for infection courts aka niches, and the total # of those created by pollarding back to the trunk is 1. The # created by reduction pruning cuts that an arborist might find apropo' to create is much higher.

 

Doesn't creating more potential niches in a plethora of places produce more potential for biodiversity?

Mycologists and ecologists might find these niches fascinating to study, but they might need binoculars.

Are the only niches apropo' to study those that can be observed with the naked eye, from the earth?

[Fungus]

An arborist might find it more apropo' for the tree to close those niches rather than leave them open.

The count was for infection courts aka niches, and the total # of those created by pollarding back to the trunk is 1. The # created by reduction pruning cuts that an arborist might find apropo' to create is much higher.

Doesn't creating more potential niches in a plethora of places produce more potential for biodiversity?

 

There is a contradition in terms in this. If you choose to close the niches of the pruning cuts rather than to leave them open, the answer to your last question is : no, it doesn't !

[treeseer]

There is a contradition in terms in this. If you choose to close the niches of the pruning cuts rather than to leave them open, the answer to your last question is : no, it doesn't !

 

That is why it was part of the longer, dumber answer.

 

It seems you agree with this short answer: An arborist might find it more apropo' for the tree to close those niches rather than leave them open. There is a difference--our spheres do overlap in many areas but not this one.

 

That's okay though; many other areas for arborists to agree with mycologists, without maximizing infection courts.

[treeseer]

An arborist might find it more apropo' for the tree to close those niches rather than leave them open.

 

I got to free-climb some willows today--very easy, since they fell into a river! The sprouts at the node after branch dieback seemed like useful body language to listen to.

 

If there's this amount of regrowth on a declining branch, in the interior of a crown, on a broken trunk, imagine the closure and regrowth at a nodal cut made on a healthy branch like those at Gerrit's park.

 

Awesome bot gdn in hamilton nz, and topnotch arb ed. Possibly the best in the world imo

[Fungus]

I got to free-climb some willows today--very easy, since they fell into a river! The sprouts at the node after branch dieback seemed like useful body language to listen to. If there's this amount of regrowth on a declining branch, in the interior of a crown, on a broken trunk, imagine the closure and regrowth at a nodal cut made on a healthy branch. Possibly the best in the world imo

 

You don't have to travel to NZ to see willows like this. In The Netherlands we have plenty of so called "grienden" of pollarded and natural willows under the influence of the tide of the North See along and in the "uiterwaarden" or regularely flooded riverbanks of the main rivers, which are daily flooded by sweet or brackish water at high tide.

The most famous "griend" is de Biesbosch river delta, the territory of lots of birds and the beaver.

Because of the density and impenetrabilety of these river bank "grienden", except for one place called Dorestad (now Wijk bij Duurstede), the Vikings didn't succeed in invading The Netherlands from their ships with which they sailed inland on the rivers.