pruning beech and goat willow

[nuggsy]

is it ok to prune these at this time of year ?

i have a wee job to do today, slight lift and heavy thin of a beech and a goat willow that is intertwined, gonna take most likely every third small limb and any dead wood but is the goat willow in perticuler suseptable to any disease at this time of year like a cherry is suseptable to silver leaf at certain times f year ?

 

cheers

 

Allan

[nepia]

Willow susceptible?! Only to regrowth...

[nuggsy]

ideal, i can go and prune it and give her advice lol cheers

[janey]

Goat willows are pretty bomb proof. I think you'd have to try really hard to do any long term damage to them.

 

Beeches can be a bit tempermental. If you're doing a heavy thin, bare in mind that at this time of year when the sun is very strong, there is a theoretical risk of sun scorch to the newly exposed bark in the inner crown. It wouldn't stop me from doing the work though.

[Marc]

Goat willows are pretty bomb proof. I think you'd have to try really hard to do any long term damage to them.

 

Beeches can be a bit tempermental. If you're doing a heavy thin, bare in mind that at this time of year when the sun is very strong, there is a theoretical risk of sun scorch to the newly exposed bark in the inner crown. It wouldn't stop me from doing the work though.

 

Also increased transpiration due to more air flow through the crown, which could stress the tree, if its healthy should be fine though.