Amount of Dead Ash

[Gary Prentice]

Ash are just, barely, breaking dormancy around Manchester and then mainly in more sheltered locations. Still plenty of seeds on them from last year.

[Gardenmac]

Yup all of the above, plenty of trees breaking out, lots with keys hanging down. Then lot of dead standing wood, others looking wilted, others no sign of growth from tips of branches, growth starting much further in towards main branch and trunk.

Hopefully you are all right and the trees in question are simply still just resting.

[Paul Cleaver]

often late out Ash

[dervishcarving]

No sign of them waking up in NE Scotland yet. We use a lot of ash for bodging and have a lot to choose from but at the moment they are all still pretty bare. i don wonder if the disease is going to spread along train tracks though. The air movement from the trains will draw teh spores along the tracks easily.

[Gus McWilliam]

No ash out in Somerset yet

[Mortimer Firewood]

No Ash out in herefordshire I have never seen them this bare in the middle of May

[felixthelogchopper]

No sign of them waking up in NE Scotland yet. We use a lot of ash for bodging and have a lot to choose from but at the moment they are all still pretty bare. i don wonder if the disease is going to spread along train tracks though. The air movement from the trains will draw teh spores along the tracks easily.

 

Ditto with roads. The A127 in Essex seems to be badly affected.

[Kenty]

I'm in East Sussex & the Ash on one side of my garden are nearly in full leaf but the neighbours opposite seem to be struggling.

Last year they were in full leaf before the Oaks in my garden but not this year.

A bit worrying really.

[kernowstu]

seen a few coming into life down here,fingers crossed for the next couple of weeks.

[Gardenmac]

No sign of them waking up in NE Scotland yet. We use a lot of ash for bodging and have a lot to choose from but at the moment they are all still pretty bare. i don wonder if the disease is going to spread along train tracks though. The air movement from the trains will draw teh spores along the tracks easily.

 

Was only saying to Mrs Mac on the train how the amount of pioneer species regeneration would have been controlled in the olde days by fire on the embankments.