Haloing around and reducing veteran pollards

[David Humphries]

the ballerina pollard, from Burnham Beeches.

 

Adjacent & overshadowing lapsed pollard, reduced to lessen its load, also to allow more light & space for its delicate neighbour to continue her graceful sylvan dance.

 

 

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[sloth]

You're a lucky man involved with a job like that, (and the Basque, and others!) I'll bet you feel privileged. G*t.

Ps, I'm not jealous, honestly....

Good job

[David Humphries]

You're a lucky man involved with a job like that, (and the Basque, and others!) I'll bet you feel privileged. G*t.

Ps, I'm not jealous, honestly....

Good job

 

 

 

Someones gotta do it

 

 

 

 

Team did really well today, very delicate job

 

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[agg221]

Do any of your experiences from the Basque suggest that re-pollarding is an option with lapsed pollards in this condition? If so, is it a long-term approach via progressive removal of the larger growth, or would this just result in rapid decay and collapse?

 

Alec

[David Humphries]

Do any of your experiences from the Basque suggest that re-pollarding is an option with lapsed pollards in this condition? If so, is it a long-term approach via progressive removal of the larger growth, or would this just result in rapid decay and collapse?

 

Alec

 

Incremental retrenchment over staged reductions (coupled with managing light levels) appears to offer success in some lapsed pollard situations.

 

 

 

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[slack ma girdle]

The dancing queen looks like it has been stuck in the ground upside down.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Incremental retrenchment over staged reductions (coupled with managing light levels) appears to offer success in some lapsed pollard situations.

 

 

 

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I would imagine that a fungaly dominant soil and naturaly acidified soil environment makes managment of an alkaline loving species a tricky task to say the least with the underlying PH induced problems

[David Humphries]

I would imagine that a fungaly dominant soil and naturaly acidified soil environment makes managment of an alkaline loving species a tricky task to say the least with the underlying PH induced problems

 

Yet Beech thrive at Burnham, and often flush quite happily from the reaction to reduction.

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Yet Beech thrive at Burnham, and often flush quite happily from the reaction to reduction.

 

 

 

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indeed but there are many also low in vigour and these are located in the deepest humus areas where the heather is and armillaria is doing well.

 

I may be talking out of my buttocks though just a non refined observation, I have noted Kretz, armillaria, Polyporus umbelatus in high abundance around the norman bit.

[David Humphries]

indeed but there are many also low in vigour and these are located in the deepest humus areas where the heather is and armillaria is doing well.

 

I may be talking out of my buttocks though just a non refined observation, I have noted Kretz, armillaria, Polyporus umbelatus in high abundance around the norman bit.

 

 

I don't think that's a high % of the predominant Beech soil structure at BB.

 

I took a closer look today at a number of blown Beech root plates, and found very little humus,

 

 

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