Here is a couple for Dr david lonsdale.

[Ian Leach]

Have you got the details on the place might have a visit with the kids in the holidays.

[David oakman]

Google helmingham hall they have a web site with times and costs and special events such as the classic car day and the dog day.

[Ian Leach]

Cheers looks fantastic:001_smile:

[David Humphries]

. They have been kept and worked on and i risk assess them once a year and the hazard trees once a month.

 

Great shots David.

 

Does the estate do any exclusion work, for both safety & compaction issues.

Like dead hedging, circumferential posts?

 

Apart from your own recordings, do you ever get any research being carried out on the Vets?

Mycorrhyzal identification, pheramone trapping etc.....

 

 

 

 

 

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[David oakman]

Great shots David.

 

Does the estate do any exclusion work, for both safety & compaction issues.

Like dead hedging, circumferential posts?

 

Apart from your own recordings, do you ever get any research being carried out on the Vets?

Mycorrhyzal identification, pheramone trapping etc.....

 

No the front park is like a extention of the hall garden so very formal. As i have said before it took me seven years to get no cars parking under veteran oaks.

No no research david but a few top tree people have been allowed to look around them. I can tell you very special things are around these trees.

The sad thing is there was a large gap in history of planting so as the veterans go and i plant every year i still have no future veterans coming up soon, in the seven years i have been here i have lost 27 veteran trees so it is so important to look after them manage them for the pleasure of people for as long as possible but safely. As a rule the trees stand untill the last leaf falls and no branches left.

[David Humphries]

Do you keep any of the Vets that have died, as reduced Monoliths?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[David oakman]

Now thers a story. I was allways made to fell and clear but i have now talked them into keeping some complete dead and some trunks. One tree i cut off all the boughs as it is in the front park with events and i did cut in a bird box. In the back park all the trees have all the stag head deadwood so the % of deadwood is getting better. This years project is a log pile or two for the great crested newts to live under in the winter.

[David Humphries]

Any planted multi length logs, for Stags?

 

 

 

 

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[David oakman]

No multi lenth logs but i have got stag pile all over the estate. No shortage of stags here on a summer evening you can see lines of them on the march coming out of the trees:001_cool:

[David oakman]

I don't think i said but the branch on the left of the tree in picture 3 post 1 is a field maple and i will take a guess that branch is well over 50 years old:thumbup1: