The diary of an obsessive compulsive arborist

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Windsor park, dawn to dusk, a full 12hrs hard strutting.. my fungal lust was at fever pitch!

 

I climbed up on the statue just cos it was there, then a guy turned up and started taking pictures, he asked me how easy it was...

 

He had wanted to get up there since he was a lad, bit of encouragment thats all it needed!

 

and yes, thats the pip several times!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

That looks like a fine day.

Pictures sum the place up perfectly, the essence is there in the livestock, fung and the trees of course.

 

When do you think the pips were in their prime this year?

 

Have you been to Teds organic seed nursery?

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

That looks like a fine day.

Pictures sum the place up perfectly, the essence is there in the livestock, fung and the trees of course.

 

When do you think the pips were in their prime this year?

 

Have you been to Teds organic seed nursery?

 

 

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It was an awesome day, the sun was out it was so hot, both the dawn and the dusk where awesome:thumbup1:

 

I think the pips where probably a month old it sems they are quick to degrade with beetles. They are the softest o brackets very light sort of fluffy even when dry they still have that softness too them

 

no not seen Teds nursery

[Ben Ballard]

Great shots tony me and my manager are going to Windsor on Wednesday for tour with ted green and Jill Butler can't wait:001_smile:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Great shots tony me and my manager are going to Windsor on Wednesday for tour with ted green and Jill Butler can't wait:001_smile:

 

Send Ted my regards and tell him Piptoporus quercinus is in the main open art of the park, side opposite the castle 2/3rds way down toward Cranbourne in open grass land:thumbup1:

 

cant miss it

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Soils & Biodiversity by Dr James Merryweather | Save Our Woods

 

In one acre of a typical British woodland system there are:

 

• 110 tons of trees

 

• 1 lb of birds

 

• 21 lb of large animals

 

• ½ ton of plants

 

• 1½ tons of fungi

 

• 4½ lb of small mammals

 

• 500 lb of earthworms

 

• 9 lb of beetles

 

• 50 lb of spiders

 

• 90 lb of slugs & snails

 

• 4 tons of bacteria

 

• 340 lb of protozoa

 

M. Allaby

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thought i would do a spot of tree recording for the Ancient tree hunt ( The Woodland Trust | Take part in the Ancient Tree Hunt with the Woodland Trust )tonight on my way home logged four 5metre plus Oaks one of those hosting Podacypha multizonatta a U.K and European BAP priority species.

 

On my way to one of the trees, the largest @5.80 metres circumfernce or 185cm DBH I got a shot of a nice ganoderma resinaceum on Hornbeam on the Historic Haberdashers aske boys school grounds. and a little Inonotus dryadeus and a nice Agaricus augustus aka the prince:thumbup:

 

few other bits and bobs and a few teasers for rob to identify later on! this one will vex him so! i can almost sense him sweating! So Mr Grimes, Love child of mr Lofthouse, what do you make of the tree photos at the end here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RobArb]

Mmmm thats a toughie:blush:

 

Been looking for the past 30 mins... closest i can get is some sort of Celtis (Hackberry), or a weird cut leaf Poplar cultivar:lol:

 

If it is a cultivar, i'm stuck.. I need "New Trees" by John grimshaw but its a bit pricey at the mo:biggrin:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Mmmm thats a toughie:blush:

 

Been looking for the past 30 mins... closest i can get is some sort of Celtis (Hackberry), or a weird cut leaf Poplar cultivar:lol:

 

If it is a cultivar, i'm stuck.. I need "New Trees" by John grimshaw but its a bit pricey at the mo:biggrin:

 

mmm, i thought it a type of cultivar ornamental mulberry, so hackberry maybe near the mark, no fruits though and this site is holding some VERY rare trees, so rare that I have been nable to track down a like for like replacement of a variegated pergoda i condemnned a while back! DOH:thumbdown:

[RobArb]

i was looking at a possible morus too, but i'm not convinced, its hard to tell with rare cultivars, especially if they aren't documented:biggrin:

 

Where was the tree, at the boys school?