Sycamore saplings for transplanting

[woodworm]

I'm looking to create a small sycamore woodland from young saplings between 30 and 80cm tall. Does anyone in the Norfolk/West Suffolk area know of or have an area of problem saplings that need removing that we could then transplant as our new woodland stock. Am I actually allowed to move sapling trees without permission from the FC or some other organisation.

Also does anyone know the best/cheapest place to buy tubex tree tubes and stakes in same area?

Cheers

Woodworm

[daveatdave]

it will be a lot easier to grow them from seed in pots, if they have got to 18ins high they take some digging out, you can get seedlings out of the ground quite easily before they produce true leafs after that its a spade job

[treequip]

Or you can buy whips in, cheap as chips.

 

I don't think you could go out and harvest free ones for less and whips managed in a nursery will have a much lower failure rate.

 

Here is an example

 

Sycamore - Acer pseudoplatanus Chew Valley Trees

[Goaty]

If you do transplant self harvested ones. Mulch/keep weed free and water with extra vigilance.

For a quicker success, may not make sense now! trim roots to no more than 20cm across. Line out in your garden, care for them for the growing season. Lift late October early November. You should get top grade stock and rubbish plants will show their worth.

As for where they come from it doesnt currently matter. But avoid getting them from diseased areas of other species. Maybe even wash the roots off to minimise phytophra etc.

[peatff]

There is a small wood near us which was mixed species of hardwood and softwood but it fell into neglect over 20 years ago and it is all now Sycamore, they have killed off everything else in there. They have not been tended until now and they are just being thinned a little, I think if you plant enough of them they will cope quite well on their own.