Yew savaging

[Logrod]

Oh, I will, I will.

 

Yep, a shafting is, I think, in the post.

 

Oh well at least that's one silver lining if a member of the legal profession will end up getting a shafting

[campanula]

David, I would be thrilled to see a yew hedge cut back to this - there is still structure and plenty of separation between the still limber branches - absolutely fine cutting.......and nothing remotely like the tragedy I have been looking at. Until pics, imagine, if you will, a huge upright column of trunk, lopped cleanly off at the precise point of initial branching leaving a monolith of lonely wooden column.

 

Trying hard to suppress smirking (as said brief has got me out of a sticky spot on a couple of occasions).

[David Humphries]

Yew will recover , he will be unlucky if they don't !! from my experience only one in ten seem to give up... I've mutilated a few, I have one that has just come back from planning on Friday to turn in too a 6ft stump.. I will mill the timber ... Tree will grow back... Don't see what the problem is really ... Pollards outlast any tree given no management at all is how I would justify it.

 

 

This was one of a pair that I was tasked with removing for a car park extension.

 

They were part of an old Victorian garden and would have established before this building behind it was built.

 

I decided to keep one of them but the crown had to go completely due to a refurbishment of the roof

 

original topping was in 2005

 

First shot was taken in 2007

second & third shots 18 months after that

 

& last 3 shots were taken over the last couple of years.

 

tree is full of the brown rot of Laetiporus

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[Mark Bolam]

Impressive recovery David.

[john p]

They are far more adaptable than people give em credit for,really nice to be able to see all the stages of regrowth, nice one David

 

 

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[MattyF]

This was one of a pair that I was tasked with removing for a car park extension.

 

They were part of an old Victorian garden and would have established before this building behind it was built.

 

I decided to keep one of them but the crown had to go completely due to a refurbishment of the roof

 

original topping was in 2005

 

First shot was taken in 2007

second & third shots 18 months after that

 

& last 3 shots were taken over the last couple of years.

 

tree is full of the brown rot of Laetiporus

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Was the original speck for the pollarding down to leattiporus or did it flourish post pollarding David?

[MattyF]

Looking at the first photo I see there has already been massive cambium damage uncured?

[David Humphries]

Laetiporus has been associated with the tree for at least a decade that I know of Matty.

 

But the 'spec' (loose term here) was really just a compromise to keep something from the original planting rather than just let this part of the park just turn to concrete. Had a good feeling that it would flush out.

 

Looking at the first photo I see there has already been massive cambium damage uncured?

 

 

Lots of delivery trucks bashing in to it for many years.

 

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[fagus]

Unfortunately I have seen several of this Totem pole style pruning of Yews, often in churchyards by volunteers co-opted to 'tidy up' the area so that they can waste petrol and mow more easily.

Yes the Yews will live as they turn from reddy brown totem poles to green totem poles. I have not seen what happens if one is left to its own recovery long term, often they then kept cut with a hedge trimmer. Ouch again, I reckon it could take some good formative pruning and maybe half a century to get back into something like they were.