Tony Croft aka hamadryad

Ethical forestry? O.k im not going to rip into this one, suffice to say show me ethical forestry that turns that much profit. it does NOT exist, though it may one day when all the old forests are gone

I have to admit that seeing Phaeolus on broadleaf genera is a first for me, so big thanks

good shout that David, though my connections abroad from the inside of the trade have me pretty well clued up. you got an email for Keith:thumbup1:

oh thats alright then lets just keep taking one up the rear then shall we?

indeed, it would have been prudent to do a blanket ban, get them boys to sort their shoddy practice out and kick start a bounce back in the U.K nursery scene which is much in need! still, its a start

lovely samples David.

I couldnt possibly comment on individual products, it is purely my wish to ensure you have the info you need to find out for yourselves. if it aint natural, it aint good, simples

Bingo! Call for import ban to protect ash trees from killer fungus - Nature - Environment - The Independent

Be VERY selective about what products you use where roots of Dicots (trees) may be in the same rooting environment as your Monocot grasses. I cant elaborate, because I can end up in all kinds of trouble, suffice to say, what doesnt kill grass tends to kill or make very sick anything of a dicot nature!

Until the public stop listening in and subscribing to sensationalists (its a particular market/demographic) they will continue to believe they are giving the public the genre they want ratings are god, or rather the god of the modern age, money. Hello etc exist because we as a society subscribe to idol worship/and or the freak show. We will always have sensationalism, until we become immune to it. I think Simon did a good job.

are there trees within 50 yards

Top Job Bigg Boss, dont take em all to heart mate, they aint half the grade of guy you are, thats why they have to spend their time trying to take strips of everyone else. I take the view that doesnt matter what you do or how you do it some folk will always see what they want to, says a lot if you ask me, keep it up mate, and post more often will ya!

indeed, but whenever such a loss is felt, there is a grief proscess along with the due process, we tend ( as a society) to look to somone or something to blame, to take out our grief/anger/frustration at the fragility of life ect.

No good ever comes of these events, a persons life has been taken (condolences to all her family and friends) and a backlash against trees is always assured after such publicities.

tell me about it, Im going to approach a uni close by, might even talk to Glynn see what kind of situation I can strike up for use of specialised gear.

What I meant by spreading them out a bit was nationwide, we have not seen the worst of the tree deaths and diseases yet:thumbdown: Interesting isnt it about the multi leader scenarios, did you note the colouration of the leaves, the first adult ones after starting to grow? their shape is on most of a VERY specific shape and colour, a shape and colour I have only seen in two places, WINDSOR and Im sure Beck Row suffolk and I wouldnt mind betting sherwood has the same variants. many of the others are your pretty basic robur leaves, but I am placing my betts on something here. these genes, they are the old genes, the genes of Sherwood, of the deer parks of old, of tudors and lords. and I think they are the genes that display in their grand old ages those characters I associate with a particular body language and form. Im working on publishing all this at some stage. and very glad to be taking part, and no, no mildew:thumbup:

Nice, the thing with grifola is it builds up energy in a tuber like organ called a sclerotia, which it then pushes out as a fruit body. like all fungi fruiting takes energy and one year may exhaust it especialy in a diminishing resource like a long dead stump. These VERY large fronds are also a feature of Panic fruiting

The real crime here is labelling, they take U.K seed grow them on then sell them under the banner U.K provenance.

No not at all disagreeing, it is as good a verdict as we could possibly muster, host and everything fits, but ive learned to be a little cautious after that Laeti pip!

Hello Lowerforest. Of the 25, 8 have survived the baking sun that mr postman left them in, sweating away in their little bag they was, steaming when I opened the bag. I was in a bit of a tiz sorting them and had to calm myself down and leave them to cool down slowly as possible. The 8 are doing very well, and have thickened in the stem nicely these past few weeks, interestingly they have their own characters even in the pot togther, one is a naturaly triple stemmed which I am going to be putting in a very special personal spot, another i plan for my own garden as a pollard, one is going to Hever castle another to a friends site in Godmersham (stately Home) I am Hoping that I can get the local TO to let me plant one in Cassibury park, shall be trying to get the press involved in that one. This weekend (been waiting for the season to be right for the biology and the fruiting) I will be looking for some Boletes with which to innoculate, im really hoping for the orange Oak bolete, but we shall see, edulis may do for now. they will be watered with a weak sugar/spore solution. after separation into their own pots. With your planting I might suggest several plantings of fifty trees in very different locations, as far from a Cerris as possible. (for biosecurity and insurance) I can certainly help you with finding very very suitable sites, and shall See what hen says regarding some kind of submission on the SOW website. If your going to do a thin to waste type infill for nurse stock may I suggest both birch and ash with a little Hazel and sorbus tormenalis.

My first thoughts where Phaeolus, the individual brackets are fused, not at all typical of cuticularis and very common in Phaeolus. a very special post Mr gibbon, very very nice shots too. would be good to see the pore layer when developed, the maze like pores will be the defining moment. This is well worth documenting officially Gibbon.

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yes YOUR image I can relate too but THIS image is more like a cluster of heads as in a shroom clump, it could be confistulinas, the dessication colour all fit for fistulina, its just the morphology thats not right .

with a cluster formation? was my first thoughts, maybe the confistulina

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