Beech trees and pruning.. opinions please

[David Humphries]

Are you going David? arbfest, that is?

 

Sadly not Rob,

which is a shame really as every fledgling speaker needs a heckler or two in the crowd to help with focusing on the task at hand.

 

Perhaps you could deputise for me ?

 

Just throw the odd cabbage & rotten tomato at the Hamma every now & again, you wouldn't want him to go off on some fung frenzied monologue now would you

 

 

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[RobArb]

 

Perhaps you could deputise for me ?

 

Yes sir, sheriff!

 

I'll see what fruit's slowly rotting in the compost:lol:

 

I may have an odd question or two also:biggrin:

 

 

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Sent from my Galaxy S2

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

 

 

I will be expecting it from you:sneaky2:

[Arbocop]

Hi chaps

 

Ive just re read this thread for the second time, and I have come to the opinon in many ways al of us are saying a similar thing just missing important words or phrases.

 

eg 'beech is intollerant of pruning', should read, 'if beech is pruned at innapropriate times of the year, or has badley placed or large wounds it will, in the balance of probabilities shed libs, rot or create weird growth ptterns'

 

in the same way one could say about willow, 'prun it heavy and it will flourish or die'

 

sycamore

 

do what the hell you like as it will always grow back.

 

in short, i think it is fair to say that the problem may well lie with innaproiate interpritations, and understanding how things react and how that reaction will interact with the environment. what i mean by that is if you hammer a beech in summer the chance of it lobbing out lims goes up a lot, in a wood or if you have cut all the branches off no worries, over the door to a hotel a little moor of a problem

just the thoughts of one of those poorly educated un experienced ludite TO's...

 

kev

 

PS as to the arbs statment, id just say before any of us do any thing we do it for a reason, ask the reason before attacking the answer

[huskydavid]

This is our neighbours Beech that was pruned around two years ago. Some limbs/butts from previous limb removal are suffering from rot but the tree itself seems to be coping ok! Although the wall built on top of its roots probably didn't help it.

 

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What it looked like at Christmas

 

Edited June 4, 2012 by huskydavid
Too big a picture