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  1. We've got a job spec' for "hug and kiss tree" lurking in our data base. I'm not sure if if ever been tested...
  2. Where's it for? Will us talentless mortals get a chance to see it somewhere - other than via an internet link?
  3. I now weigh a humungous 46kg - but as I don't actually climb anymore, I think I'm disqualified from this "competition"!. I think I have to be the only person who has lost weight since they gave up on the climbing and retired to the office and slippers. It must be the stress of having to keep you lot in check .
  4. They're fantastic I'm in love with the hare - he'd look great in my garden, I reckon . I just want you to know though, that I am extremely bitter and envious of such talent and I hates you!!! LoL.
  5. Ooh, choices, choices.... Where to start? Copper beech, Persian iron wood, Betula albosinesis (dunno the Inglish for that one ), Deodar and Paulonia are a few that spring to mind. Dunno really. I think there is something positive to be said about all trees and a lot depends on their setting
  6. Joshing. I wouldn't stick a Gleditsia in any of my streets. But it's tempting to put a few of the thorned cultivars into some of the sink estates and see if the pit bulls would chew on them!
  7. Hmmm, I wonder why this was "topped"...? Not one of my trees, but it's nice to see that it has been left as standing deadwood.
  8. Gleditsias It's easier to say what I'm steering clear of, rather that what I am planting, as I try to assess each location individually. Generally, no more limes (people have to wash their cars, poor lambs...), very few Sorbus', other than "Browers" and "Cardinal Royal" which seem to be pretty bomb proof, and I'm steering clear of most of the apples because of scab, basal cankering and, good grief!, they drop fruit. Though "Street Parade" is looking ok. Strangely enough, I'm not planting any more Raywood ashes either
  9. Only just seen this in Hort' Week, but it would be a great place to start an arby career Junior Arborist / Horticulturist job - Ampfield, Hampshire - Horticulture Jobs
  10. :001_tongue: Deja vous! Lose the bald patch and it could be me
  11. Over the past few years, street Rowans are failing badly. They seem to be sucumbing to a combination of heat / drought stress and basal cankering. Most of the aucuparia (Rowan) type species and cultivars I regulary see are suffering, especially S cashmiriana and S hupenhensis, while S "Cardinal Royal" and S "Street Wise" seem to be effected less. I've stopped planting aucuparia types as a result and tend to stick with S "Browers" which still seems to be doing well. A lot of the aria (Whitebeam) types are failing as well, again with basal cankering but with sections of the crown dying in succession rather than in one go. Other than good young tree husbandry and choosing more robust spp's and cv's, I don't think much can be done about this. Tis sad
  12. Yep, the good Borough of quirkness. The 'cerasiferas around my way don't seem to have read Lonsdale and sprout Laetiporous at all times of the year.
  13. Gorgeous scenery. You have just added more incentive for my plans to get my lazy posterior oop norf and see some more of the beautiful UK first hand (a weekend in Edinbro' doesn't really count!).
  14. This really caught my attention as it contrasts beutifully with the foliage of the P cerasifera "Nigra". Tho I wouldn't necessarily choose it as a colour scheme for my kitchen...
  15. ... Strong feeling of de ja vous when reading that! Why don't other people get all excited about spotting a really good beech reduction ???
  16. Nothing personal, but wouldn't trust you poking around my root canals!!! Why do you never have a song that you actually quite like stuck in a permanent loop in your head?
  17. ... Preferably of the varifocal type, that prevent me from looking for dead trees and at completed work! I have always been the anorak who wanders about staring upwards, but since i have started working for the LA where i live, i have become terrible for it. There has been more than a few occasions where i have been on the bike, not looking at that van in front that's suddenly stopped i'm coz craning my head to get a look at ongoing tree works / dead trees / that public enquiry that came in last night... Try explaining that to my insurance company And now i'm finding i am spotting all the past trees that i worked on when i was young and naive and didn't know any better . AND getting home is taking sooo much longer as i just detour for one more wafer thin inspection. ARRGGGHHHHHHH!!!! Blinkers. Please. And soon.
  18. Wow. Where did you find it - anywhere near a GM research lab?
  19. janey

    ash fell

    It wasn't until you came into shot that I realised just how big that fell was. Bet you had one helloffan adrenelin rush from it
  20. :001_smile: I know what you mean - I'm going to hurt myself one day by looking at the comeptancy of a crown reduction or how well the saplings are establishing when I'm on the mokerbike. Now that I work in the same Borough that I live, I'm even worse for it
  21. janey

    Lying down game

    Oh... THAT lying down game. It wasn't what sprung to my mind when I read the title
  22. You probably get passed around so much coz all the TO's are tied up with rescuing the world from leaves in gutters
  23. Ok, I can understand that the average bod doesn't know, or frankly care about things like target pruning or CODIT, but surely if they had a job like that done on their tree they would at least think, eff me, that's UGLY .
  24. Is this of any use to those out there with too much sense and too little cartilage to climb trees all day? My client urgently requires a tree surveyor. The role is based in the West Midlands and the contract is ongoing. If you are interested in this role or know of anyone looking please contact me on 0121 6858713. Kind Regards, Sunita Nakra Principal Consultant Eden Brown Recruitment, Training & Consultancy, Managed Services Charles House, 148 Gt. Charles St, , Birmingham, , B3 3HT T 0121 685 8700 F 0845 4348917 [email protected] Public Sector Jobs. Professional Recruitment Agency, Training & Consultancy UK - Eden Brown
  25. You get exotica, we get OPM and mental residents.... Hmmm, is it just me or does there seem to be something a tad unequal in that arrangement?

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