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VID-20210529-WA0007.mp4
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Bunzy, would you be good enough to ID all those pics please if you can remember them? Then I can save the thread in Faves for future reference: Acers are looking better and better for here the more I think about it. Cheers.
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Always. Mulching is a bit of a thing for me. Good shout; I do like Birch. The wife bought me Royal frost: a bit of a show-off tree but as delicate as any birch.
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Bet you wouldn't have gone for Chionanthus retusus or Caragana arborescens though would ya. I'm just showing off; I'd never heard of them either until I found them at the well known Perryhill Nursery last month, sadly closing down forever in July.
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@Baldbloke I think he's talking to you from the bottom of the pond
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Liquidambar's fine but doesn't jump out at me: I have a mental wants list more than long enough for this garden and it's not small! Last week I planted Aesculus pavia and indica; the leaves on pavia especially are superb. I have a Hop Hornbeam to put in; lovely tree but wouldn't have told my kids months ago I wanted one for my birthday if I'd known that the new garden and woodland would be in area where 90% of the natives are oak and hornbeam! Thanks anyway.
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I'll keep Crimson Queen in mind - thank you. Not to be confused with Crimson King it seems! Encouraging to see your comment on growth potential of Jordan. Cheers, Jon
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@Bunzena if you're there... I've made a start Acer shirasawanum Jordan
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Great news for you - good one. Always worth checking for any risk first if you suffer any medical conditions or take medication: spookily mag supplements can inhibit a medication that I take but with a reasonable diet I have no fears. Office of Dietary Supplements - Magnesium ODS.OD.NIH.GOV Magnesium overview for health professionals. Research health effects, dosing, sources, deficiency symptoms, side effects...
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Should you ever have the pleasure Spurge (Euphorbia) does the same. The one and only time I've had an unpleasant reaction was when handling it in bright sunshine.
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Poison causing fitting before death?
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Replacing gorse with something else
nepia replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Well like a dog with a bone I wouldn't let it go so I asked the Conservators of Ashdown Forest what was up with their gorse. It seems that gorse dieback is a thing; it's been reported from far and wide. The Animal and Plant Health Agency have had a look and can find no pathogen. The spring weather being responsible has been suggested but apparently the problem has been reported from all quarters, including those that didn't have a harsh spring. That said gorse is known to be vulnerable to frost (a new one on me) but even within a locale damage is patchy and follows no pattern. Natural England say there is nothing to suggest the issue is anything other than abiotic, i.e. doesn't involve a pathogen, but they can't help further. In short 'we know the gorse is suffering but we don't know why'. -
I've never heard that but thinking about it I don't think I've ever seen birds on horizontalis while they love cornubia - well pigeons, blackbirds and thrushes (incl redwing and field fare) can't get enough of those berries
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VID-20210531-WA0003.mp4
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Someone was very busy building that lot; great stuff. The Fort Knox of bird nests; chew on that magpie!
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Replacing gorse with something else
nepia replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
A random small patch on Ashdown Forest this morning. It's not as bad as the stuff nearer the sea or beside the main road that I mentioned earlier but it's not great is it given that it's the end of May; I've seen healthier and more floriferous gorse in December! PXL_20210530_074917543.mp4 -
Back in the 70s and 80s such occurrences were blamed on pesticides and herbicides; wonder what the real reason is! (= random probabilty)
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nepia replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Certainly won't have been waterlogging on Beachy Head and the banks I referred to were steep. The plants weren't young either; those on the Downs were wind-shaped gnarly old things -
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nepia replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Glad yours is doing well; we seem not to have Gorse Dieback rampaging through the country 😊 -
Replacing gorse with something else
nepia replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Am I just seeing behaviour typical of the species then - something akin to mass death of bamboo (though in that case we know the cause - flowering)? I need to take a walk on Ashdown Forest and have a look there even if it is - oo - all of 20 minutes drive away! -
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nepia replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Good to hear, especially as you're virtually within calling distance! Thanks. -
Replacing gorse with something else
nepia replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
So as not to start a whole new thread... Does anyone know what's happening to the gorse in Sussex and perhaps elsewhere? It looks devastated; nearly all the top growth is dead. We're nearly into June and it's brown, brown, brown. Walking over Beachy Head last week I genuinely thought it had been sprayed as part of scrub control but it's the same on the banks lining the A22. And yet my mate has it on his farm at the top of Scotland and it's thriving so the winter and spring haven't done for it have they? Any similar experiences beyond my limited universe? -
Got a couple living on the edge of the garden but haven't seen others locally. I was on the Downs on the edge of Eastbourne last Friday: we had to walk down the side of a lamb nursery field that must have had 30 or 40 rabbits of all ages mowing the edges. Oh - watched the shadow of a bat for a while at 1.15am today; couldn't see the thing itself but the moon was so bright a shadow kept flitting across the lounge floor!
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Mammals; a couple of rabbits living underground on the edge of the garden, no foxes or badgers, two bats one evening in March and thankfully no deer in the garden but roe aren't far away. There's a ?70 acre field of wheat nearby with a public footpath across it: one day in March we walked that way and there was a herd of at least 40 roe grazing the bottom end of it. Last week I turned off the A22 close by and within yards there was a group of 15 or so on a field boundary by the lane; they're brazen
