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  1. Giles Hill
    Here's a mature oak with a nice mulch of tarmac : Here's some leakage from an old pruning wound on one side of the tree: And here's a Chicken of the Woods on the other:
  2. Giles Hill
    Meripilus giganteus - beech with slightly alarming lean and lifted rootplate.
  3. Giles Hill
    Inonotus hispidus on ash, overhanging footpath... Looking up from below:
  4. Giles Hill
    Ganoderma bracket with branch failure above...
  5. Giles Hill
    I don't know about the choice of species from a woodfuel point of view - they're all reliable species, although I think hazel can be slow to establish if it's very dry & exposed. It's often a good idea to see what's growing in the local hedgerows. Deer can be a nuisance too, do you know if they're likely to be a problem? Regarding the mulch, you'll be covering the whole area - twice in places at the spacings / radi you're giving!
  6. Giles Hill
    Thanks David - I did start to wonder if I was mad, but a big spider told me not to worry.
  7. Giles Hill
    Extra Heavy Standard Ligustrum lucidum + Elaeagnus angustifolia Caspica + Magnolia grandiflora from Barcham Trees They're all compact trees that provide evergreen screening above the fence height. The Elaeagnus and Ligustrum are cheaper than the Mags, you can plant them about 3m apart to make a good screen.
  8. Giles Hill
    Dean, I thought I posted this the otherday, but I must have done something wrong... Anyway, I found these links useful - they cover most of the arboricultural Usual Suspects. There are more than 10, but not too many. AIE - Tree Fungi http://www.mkweb.co.uk/parks-trust/documents/Fungi_Identification.doc
  9. Giles Hill
    Yes, It's interesting to speculate about one fungus taking over from another. In fact I might use it as an excuse when I mis-identify them in future!
  10. Giles Hill
    Biennial is not the correct term - I was thinking of this comment on the AIE site:
  11. Giles Hill
    Are you sure the first bracket was not mis-identified? Given that: It has some resin looking stuff on the underside Its reddy-brown on top, white underneath Ganoderma resinaceum bracketts seem to vary alot in appearance as they mature Ganoderma res. has biennial? brackets - hence the reason brackets have not been seen for a while.
  12. Giles Hill
    Here's an overview, which compares the current BS with it's predessesor. I think it covers most of the terminology: http://www.edp-uk.co.uk/downloads/arbor_briefing_note_reva.pdf Here's some LPA info about what's required in the survey: http://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/media/pdf/7/1/BS5837_leaflet.pdf I might be able to help if you have any specific questions.
  13. Giles Hill
    I think you can get away with english for a lot of the tree fungi to be honest. But if you need / want to remember the botanical name, the best way IMO, find out what they mean and how they relate to the plant. With that one, I think, blood and hepatitus. Nice.
  14. Giles Hill
    The Latin name does that - Hepatic means of, or relating to the liver, also as in Hepitacea, the liverworts. Yes, I've got a dictionary. So you can recognise it because it looks a bit like a tasty lump of liver.
  15. Giles Hill
    Looks like chicken of the suburbs
  16. Giles Hill
    Perhaps there might be some spare places, depending on the number of people that have passed this year's written exam. Might be worth trying again in a week or so?
  17. Giles Hill
    Tingle-wise, this one does it for me. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09dQmeB_NgU&feature=related]YouTube - Beach boys - Sloop John B[/ame] Talking of 'music nowadays' I can't stop listening to this lot. Slightly different approach to harmonies, but great tunes after a few listens. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAIiNUStNOA]YouTube - Fucked Up Son The Father[/ame]
  18. Giles Hill
    We have a Lonicera nitida hedge, so the name is typically preceded with a 'kin'.
  19. Giles Hill
    Oh lordy, the Health & Safety Inspector's coming and the MEWP inspection is overdue. Never mind that, my helmet is stuck in the log pile.
  20. Giles Hill
    Why do you say structural soils they have a limited life-span? Regarding levels for new planting, it's more than likely that the finished ground levels will be different to the existing, therefore to get the soft landscape areas to match, it will often be required to reduce them by a foot or so and therefore you'll remove most of the topsoil. Regarding the comparison of structural soils to existing ground, I was meaning the existing ground on development sites is variable and depends on things like the former land use and recent activities that have taken place.
  21. Giles Hill
    With no-dig vs structural soils, it may depend on who's research you read. I think it would depend a lot on the site - in some circumstances a structural soil is likely to provide a better growing medium than what's there to begin with. I've not had the oppurtunity to specify ground protection for areas to be planted yet. It can make a job of getting the final levels to match up, particularly where space is restricted, as is the case on most development sites. I like the idea of it though!
  22. Giles Hill
    Has that lady got a dragon coming out of her bottom?
  23. Giles Hill
    They may have done their job by then - by protecting nearby kerbs and edgings.
  24. Giles Hill
    I don't think plastic root barriers per se cause any particular problems, so long as there is adequate rooting medium to sustain the tree. Trees growing on hedgerow banks effectively have barriers on both sides - i.e. where the face of the bank meets the air. Similarly differing ground conditions, water courses and foundations can create barriers. In the cases mentioned in your link, of trees being harder to uproot where barriers are installed, I should think this has less to do with the roots runnning deeper, and more to do with the support provided by the barrier itself. Tree roots do make use of underground structures to give themselves additional anchorage and I'd think a root barrier would would provide good anchorage, once the roots had got under it. Regarding root deflectors, my main concern would be that they could eventually girdle the base of the tree, if you used the smaller sized defelctors with larger tree species. PS I liked your brain-eating avatar, where did it come from?
  25. Giles Hill
    Sean, Did you get a positive id on that black lumpy thing on your thread from the other day?

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