nepia
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Because they think walnut is walnut maybe. Isn't a good specimen of white worth more than a poor one of black? I don't know... By 'white' do you mean J. regia or cinerea?
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Just flogged a freshly ringed up 20' x 18" leyland stem for £50 for use on a grass verge as Chelsea Tractor traps. The road's about 300 yards long; I may have found a new sideline!
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...and shiny tipper conversion for easy unloading
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Oops; just spotted that my Garrya guess was from a second shot of the specimen. Having now seen the first I withdraw! It's all too confusing...
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Thanks. I used to clip the nuts off it to try to stop it impinging on the luvverly laurel/privet hedge and then I saw the error of my ways. The bees love it; every time one lands on a flower there's a small shower of flower fragments.
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20' from my back door
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...but having now turned to Uncle Google I see you're right. Life is one big learning experience.
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...Prunus padus does...? Laurel, as in Laurocerasus, does, but not Prunus surely
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International relations on the up? Sadly not as 5 seconds after this there was a brief border skirmish. Sabres were rattled and both parties went home with pride intact.
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daltontrees, that leaf has looked familiar all evening and I've just twigged (oops) what it reminds me of; so my guess is Garrya, presumably elliptica.
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Just to annoy I'll go for Zelkova but stop at the generic name. I only think that because of the beautiful specimen outside the Princess of Wales glasshouse at Kew.
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Any more ideas out there re the holly thing? I was in a garden in West Wickham (S.E.London/Kent) this afternoon and there was a ?40-year old native holly suffering; thin foliage again - you shouldn't be able to see through it. But 10 feet away was a dark green garden species/hybrid completely unaffected, as was a green/yellow variegated plant 20 yards away. So perhaps whatever is doing the dirty is specific to I.aquifolium in its pure form only.
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Confucius say... man who go to bed with sexual problem wake up in morning with solution in hand.
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I'll be watching this: I've noticed several with bare stems. One in particular is a maiden mulitstemmed tree, though not a large one: for the first time the lower half is seethrough as it has no leaves, just a mass of thin bare stems. However in the last few weeks new shoots have appeared in places. I can't believe this is down to 'the winter', not with holly.
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Or RHI etc for homegrown timber only. But of course that wouldn't be allowed as it would be protectionism.
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The embodiment of that English word 'eccentric'. A shame he's gone.
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Yeah - you tell 'em!
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'should only burn wood that has no other use and would otherwise go to landfill'. Oh dear.
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I've just taken down a dead Lab (in Purley, not yours!) You're welcome to come and pick over the bits. Condition of wood is variable. Sadly the very short 18" thick main stem split and stacked itself ready for burning as I cut it. I'm in Caterham. Jon
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Brill. If I'd known about them when I bought my Jo Beau... but of course the support may not be in place in the UK.
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Bugga. Sorry to hear that. Don't suppose prime suspects could be a mile along the road from you could they - he asked with absolutely no hint of stereotyping!
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No, not venomous; harmless to us and to be encouraged. The adder is Britain's only venomous snake but is also to be encouraged just because it's supposed to be here.
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How long have I got then? Passed my test in '77 when I was 17 and had hoped for a bit longer than 'a few years'. Darn...
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In all seriousness you might consider a First Aid course. As Skyhuck rightly says you never extract an object that's embedded, you stop the bleeding around it by packing the wound. The words 'First Aid' mean just that for non-pros; Airway, Breathing, Circulation. Get them controlled, let medics do the rest.
