Codythedog

The photo is from inside our garden. Any replacement fences can go to 6ft and then you can have a trellis but can only add another 18 inches on top of that roughly. The trees currently are about as tall as my house so give loads of privacy whereas a fence, even a massive fence that needed planning permission wouldn’t be ideal at all.

This is a picture from today. The bits lower down are browning off and in the top-left of the picture you can see how browned the top of that tree is. I think we are going to opt for the trees to be removed for safety purposes. Good point about liability to the path behind because it is a popular route for walkers.

I feel like answering sarcastically but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you’re not trying to be vindictive. Firstly, we did not light the fire. We have a public path behind our house/garden. It has been so warm and dry it could have simply been a discarded cigarette from someone walking past, or arson. But we don’t know. We were out at the time and came back home to zero fence panels and burned trees. Secondly, we know nothing about trees. We have had one opinion, another coming today hopefully to assess and thought we would reach out through the power of internet for some second opinions. It’s not that we don’t trust the tree surgeon, SHE actually came recommended and I thought she was very professional but we don’t know any better. We were reaching out because we are stressed and don’t want to get rid of the trees if we can help it but we don’t want them dying anyway and doing further damage when they collapse. Thirdly, I’m sure there is somewhere you can monetise your advice. Go have a look. But I’ve got to say, even though opinions on here are varied it has been hugely appreciated just having second opinions based off of the limited information I can give. I had no idea there was anything like this out there and I’ve probably learned more about trees in the past two weeks than I have ever learned and I’m still not a tree surgeon so it won’t impact your unique skill. My unique skill is being able to spell. Sorry to eventually be sarcastic.

I don’t know what more I can show that would help to inform your advice and I appreciate it. The trees are giving us privacy from a public path which our property backs on to. So without the trees we wouldn’t be able to put fences up high enough to give us privacy without getting planning permission to do so. Trees are the only way to do it and if these trees don’t survive then no privacy until new trees that could be planted grow tall enough to block the view again. So ideally we would love to keep the trees but if they won’t survive anyway then we can fell them, cost is a factor but privacy is arguably a more important factor for us.

These difference between these 2 pictures is 2 days. Obviously the browner foliage is after the fire.

They’re leylandii and most of the is foliage is green apart from one tree where it has browned off. The fire was 2 weeks ago and the foliage was all green before then.

Recently had a fire at the bottom of our garden. A tree surgeon told us the trees will die and eventually go brittle and collapse. I’ve been advised to chop into the tree slightly to see if the tree is still alive but I’ve no idea how to tell. Can anyone guide me based off of the pictures? These are three different trees.