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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    It is a "bad year" for the powdery mildew, weather has suited its lifecycle down to a tee, it is bad in some years, les so in others, our oaks have lived with it no doubt for many many generations, and will continue to do so. Just another one of those that is there and always has been.
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    This is one of the few tickets i would actualy value having and learning for, good on you for being the first here to mention it as far as I can tell! cant help you with the book but good on ya and a really big good luck with it, a ticket worth having IMO:thumbup1:
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    would explain why the defoliation is so extreme.
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    thats my guess too, the rest of the foliage is fine. wouldnt worry A few dead leaves is not reason to spread panic with a txt like "all the thorn trees are dying"!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    you defo got the camera skills Gibbon!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Graham, theres some cracking old pollards in there! where is this? nice photos too, there is a lot of very good large sized fistulinas about this year and looks like you collared one on theat Oak pollard too. I got some crackers at windsor this weekend.
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    plants can suffer die back on planting into new schemes due to transference of root feeding parasites like weevils from nursery stock
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    just the leaves, they even leave the petioles alone which drop off eventualy as the shoots re flush
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    lmao:lol: about right too!
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    £100 ! lol
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Good advice, stretches realy help, ive noticed a tightening of my major tendons in recent years and it stops me reaching at times (legs)
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    The best yet?
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    defo a different variety of the same family, the colouration/banding is asymetrical one banded in the origional fly, which also reiterats in the wings, the second fly has no such colouration banding in the wings
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    ben, it is long overdue that your site was given SSSI status, you have a very very special site, worthy of as much inclusion to conservation as any of the so called "prime sites"
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    yes, because the re shooting is right out to the growth tips, so die back is not the cause, its re flushing all over:thumbup1: This is one of the worst defoliations ive seen, if it doesnt suffer a similar one next year it will probably be fine if not and it continuosly gets defoliated the consequences will be obvious
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    thats the one Ben! get this off to Martyn ainsworth of Kew and get your name on the list of finds with voucher material! top draw!
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Send Ted my regards and tell him Piptoporus quercinus is in the main open art of the park, side opposite the castle 2/3rds way down toward Cranbourne in open grass land:thumbup1: cant miss it
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Heres a good shot of a tree thats had a dose of the greedy beggers! tree on left you can on a close up see a little transference where they nipped across to the other tree.
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    no, its been moth eaten!
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    It was an awesome day, the sun was out it was so hot, both the dawn and the dusk where awesome:thumbup1: I think the pips where probably a month old it sems they are quick to degrade with beetles. They are the softest o brackets very light sort of fluffy even when dry they still have that softness too them no not seen Teds nursery
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    you can add beech to the list too
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    no idea with them photos, not K deusta though
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Oh I am a happy man to hear that, we was lucky with all that rain too, got them off to a flying start! Cant wait to see them again.
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    NICE!
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Proud of you I is!

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