nepia
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Out of interest - and I speak as a 56-year old with the relevant lack of knowledge - why wasn't your answer simply 'back up everything to the Cloud'? Thanks, Jon
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I hope he like Fuchsia then.
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Well, I suppose your Fuchsias do look a bit like Willowherb (food plant)! Perhaps they are a genuine alternative though at this time of year I'd have expected the larvae to be burrowing underground for overwintering as pupae.
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The modern way of growing Paulownia is by annual pollard to generate huge leaves so I'd say you could hit it pretty hard. If the tree's in decline anyway perhaps that's just what it needs.
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...but perhaps not now: a hard winter could kill off regrowth. Trim it now by all means but I'd leave the hack until spring.
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I'm not just round the corner you know. This is the bigger piece
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The hedge will look horrible for a long while but as light will be getting into the heart of it the green skin round the outside will start to put some growth inwards. After a few years this will all meet up to give you a green top but don't stand on it as its origins will still be at the outside of the hedge. Long reach hedgey... look at Echo.
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Speaking in my capacity as pert-time Arbtalk taxi I'm driving from Caterham to Newcastle on Thurs Oct 22nd if you two want to make private arrangements. Jon
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From memory - that job was ~3 years ago - it was dealing OK with stems 1-1¼" thick but they were lightweight wood like Philadelphus and Buddleia. If you needed to deal with any amount of tree timber that thickness you'd want a chipper.
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The Eliet major goes round corners too. I took it up two steps, through the front door, half left into the kitchen, half right and down a step onto the terrace, down ramps onto the garden. Fairly straightforward really but the machine is good for the situation. As for its capability... before and after pics.
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Agreed. Wisley has a small forest of maiden Mags; a great sight when they flower.
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...some Cercis? Smaller trees for the understorey with good leaf and flower colour.
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Thanks for the gesture but I wasn't having a moan, honest; it was just one of those things.
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I would have bought my Stein Krieger boots this week instead of last if I'd known! Sorry but that's the best contribution to the thread I can make.
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ArborCareEffect I'm sure you're thinking as others before you; the Stein trolley is a lot of money for what it is. But it isn't. Development and marketing costs account for some of the retail price but it's still fantastic value. It will last you for years. For argument's sake let's say you somehow manage to make it unusable after 5 years. The cost then will be ~£80p.a. for hours of time saved, backs not as ruined, flower beds not trashed by 9' wide armfuls of brash and bigger logs moved (= less ringing up). Buy one. The maths of making one just don't add up in the long run.
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I have six split trunk halves that have been under cover standing on end for 18 months. Each is 36x10" (900x260mm). Do you want to cut blanks from them?
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That's a very good shout, especially given the late flowering nature of Clerodendron. Starscream I take it this is a very recent pic...?
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How about lightweight blocks, e.g. wooden boxes, on the flat roof to the height of the cowshed roof peak; then level scaffold boards between the two, stand on the scaffold boards or put a decorator's folding stool/platform on them. Assuming the cowshed roof peak goes the 6m back to the main house wall that is.
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A DipHortKew friend of mine has suggested more than once that rapid decline in otherwise semi-mature trees may be becasue the roots 'have hit chalk', the implication being that they've sustained the tree thus far with the meagre topsoil available on much of the Downs (the North Downs in my case) but then can go no deeper due to the bedrock. Could this be possible? I have a similar situation currently in Oxted with a ~35-year old Magnolia grandiflorum; in the last 3 months it has shown decline. It was fine - apparently - when and after I did further reduction work on it in late March.
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Me too - when I'm at home. But miles from home on a hot day when I've just finished a Leyland hedge it's good to get something on the blades to soften and disperse the gunk. Gunk - that's the stuff to use; cleans everything!
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Ooh you do like a little stir don't you!
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Barrie, how come that can in your picture has 'AGEA' on it when the stuff's called Agialube?!
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Yes it is. The most popular plant there was a small yellow-flowering thing about a foot high; it looked a bit like a helianthemum. I have no idea what it was but it certainly was popular with insects.
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Thanks Barrie; that's useful. I'll get some of that Agea (would be rude not to as a diehard Aspen user) and I think a small grease gun loaded with white lithium. Thanks too to Spud for your input. Cheers, Jon
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