David oakman
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Today i checked my metasequoia glyptostroboides its about 30 years old try and sit under one and look up lovely. anouther tree i like are my old hornbeam try and look up and you cant see the sky and trunks with character.Last year i planted a Taxodium on an island in the middle of a lake a shame i wont be alive to see its full glory.
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what is the best tree identification book to buy
David oakman replied to andy t's topic in General chat
The oxford book of trees 1975 everything you need to know. -
what is the best tree identification book to buy
David oakman replied to andy t's topic in General chat
A good idea is to go round second hand book shops,charity shops and you will buy some good id tree books. last week i went in a charity shop and bought the arboriculturists handbook for £1 a bargain. -
same here i know all this knowledge but when i try to tell someone important it wont come to the front of my brain.
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I was looking at a freshly pollarded ash today and it had two inonotus hispidus brackets growing on the underside of the goblet about2 metres up new growth only a few days old.
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Greenboy you should know this type of thing. Read trees and shrubs hardy in the british isles by W.J.BEAN 1950 in three volumes,you might get them for a £100.
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Let me know what type of lock you get and how secure it is. we should all have locks here to lower premiums.
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If i remember rightly it started to die and had compaction work done and fed with good success i might be wrong on this but i do remember reading it somewhere:scared1:
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The ginkgo tree was introduced to europe in 1730 and came to england 28 years later.the ginkgo at kew is a male tree but some female twigs were grafted onto it obtained from montpellier in france and was planted in 1762
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Interesting this because i have ganoderma on an oak outside my back door with dead brackets black undersides but with new small brackets now starting to grow fresh:scared1:
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pete b, the more they got laid, i like the sound of that job ha ha.
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when you have as much ganoderma as i have the old fruiting bodies go as black as coal break it open and it is brown inside. like you i have lots of books but best way to learn is to have a lot of types on your trees.my best one is grifola frondosa on some of my old oaks.
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Iwould say ganoderma adspersum fruiting bodies grow at stem base and very rarely high. interestingly i have just found a turkey oak with inonotus dryadeus at the butt and inonotus hispidus about 2-3 metres high. ps it is only quercus cerris.
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I thought phellinus igniarius was a top rotter and to quote i found this on a beech on the buttress.
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Looks like ganoderma to me i just went and looked at the old fruiting bodies on my old beech and picture looks very similar:001_smile:
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I am looking to buy a gps grid ref for daily risk ass. also grid ref for hazardous trees so as i report them it is closer than reading off a map. also i have been asked to survey and record ancient,veteran trees and also do a count of all trees young and old and count the stock in our 400 acre park. with a small gps i can plot on to my parkland maps. it will be nice to know the ratio between young,mature and veterans. Can anyone recomend a good cheap gps with 8 or 10 didget grid ref.
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Working on mostly old oak i have to sharpen my chains through the day keeping sharp but on a wet day i do re-set them on a grinder and i finish off with a file extra sharpe that way.all my chains are used to nothing left unless some one left the metal park guards on and the tree grew round them.:cussing:
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Isaw a picture of an oak tree in the same situation as this one on a building site, sadly it died.
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done:001_cool:
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yes i work on one ,i would not want to own onei am just a poor woodman cant even aford butter for my bread:sad:
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Speedy recovery jarno:001_smile:
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I to have game keepers but on a whole we work well together.This year they have been controling the squirrells. I have now put rides in all my woods and also putting in a lot of glades which brings back flowers but the pheasants also use them to dry in wet weather. in one wood i have brought back herb paris and early purple orchids.As the retired keeper once told me a wood is split three ways, shooting, timber and conservation.
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Are woodlands in decline? wild flowers are ,due to lack of maintenance and deer problems. lack of light is stopping natural regen. what are your thoughts on woodlands today over managed or under-managed.
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Thats my sunday gone reading the rules:post:
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Six weeks ago on friday i was walking around our largest wood looking for wild flowers,i spooked 4 fallow deer and 2roe, on sunday morning i was rushed to hospital my body had shut down. I spent 8 days in hospital on a drip pumped full of anti biotics and i could not walk for 5 weeks i had blood poisoning in my leg it distroyed musle and skin and my limph glands. the doctors still dont know what it was i wonder? if ihad a tick bite. i am back to work now but my foot is puffed up by tea time and turns blue. ps i dont want to frighten any woodman but as already said health and safety means think about your health and keep safe.
