Been given a seedling

[treequip]

Answered your question, now answer mine

 

 

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You didn't answer it, you put in a huge caveat allowing you to name anything you wanted, before that you put restrictions on the way I could answer your question, life is good when you can make the rules to suit yourself.

[Eddy_t]

You didn't answer it, you put in a huge caveat allowing you to name anything you wanted, before that you put restrictions on the way I could answer your question, life is good when you can make the rules to suit yourself.

 

 

Well I'll name another, blue river gum, red river gum, elder, giant redwood, costal redwood, buddlia... Need a few more? Now tell me a different genus of trees that pollards well, is fast growing and ecologically biodiverse, as goat willow is one of the best in the salicacea genus!

 

 

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[treequip]

Well I'll name another, blue river gum, red river gum, elder, giant redwood, costal redwood, buddlia... Need a few more? Now tell me a different genus of trees that pollards well, is fast growing and ecologically biodiverse, as goat willow is one of the best in the salicacea genus!

 

 

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There you go again with the restrictions:001_rolleyes:

[Eddy_t]

There you go again with the restrictions:001_rolleyes:

 

 

Name what ever you like then, evidently you can't name anything past the same genus that would match a goat willow, which you dismissed as a worthless tree, but fail to give a more worthy tree within the parameters I laid out in the first place

 

 

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[difflock]

A "Sally Bush" as it is euphemistically referred to here in NI.

Break off a branch, toss it like a spear into a wet place, and IT WILL grow.

Vigerously!

However the Galleys of Venice when it was a sea power were built from Willow.(But not Goat Willow)

Light and resilient, with a very good length to girth ratio, and easily worked (while not long cut)

Perfect for essentially disposable fighting vessels.

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[difflock]

PS

On the other hand I "gave life", or certainly a better opportunity, to 3 No volunteer seedlings today up the Moss.

2 Beech and one wee Oak (the Oak, almost certainly seeded by a Jay)

Cut away the surrounding overshadowing shitty Lodgepole Pine.

[treequip]

Name what ever you like then, evidently you can't name anything past the same genus that would match a goat willow, which you dismissed as a worthless tree, but fail to give a more worthy tree within the parameters I laid out in the first place

 

 

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There you go YET AGAIN with YOUR rules, you just cant leave that alone can you.

 

Don't you see that its not a fair game if YOU make the rules? No one said anything about excluding any species, you named a bunch of non native trees but you don't see me calling you out on that do you?

[Eddy_t]

There you go YET AGAIN with YOUR rules, you just cant leave that alone can you.

 

 

 

Don't you see that its not a fair game if YOU make the rules? No one said anything about excluding any species, you named a bunch of non native trees but you don't see me calling you out on that do you?

 

 

Elder is very native, and very common round here, it's a poor firewood and mediocre on biodiversity

 

 

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[difflock]

But Elder(or the Boortree bush) is revered for its medicinal and culinary uses:001_tt2::001_tt2:

[treequip]

Elder is very native, and very common round here, it's a poor firewood and mediocre on biodiversity

 

 

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Granted but

 

blue river gum, red river gum, giant redwood, costal redwood, are all imports

 

and buddlia isn't even a tree

 

So of 6, 5 not native and one not even a tree. The one native that you claim mediocre has flowers that support a host of insects and its berries feed the masses.

 

Goat willow on the other hand forms a large dome blocking light to the ground and preventing nearly all growth