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Tony Croft aka hamadryad

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  1. Indeed as have I, in fact here two side by side, and only serves to prove of the detrimental effects of urbanisation on tree stocks, urea, and other polution,damage etc
  2. Xylaria polymorpha you nutter!
  3. fair enough, no need though sean, got two copies myself, one signed! keep it till its wanted.
  4. There is a thing called bookclub on here you might want to check out, but they are loans NOT for sale, nor will they go missing without persuence!
  5. seems fitting, to post these here, really interesting body language too, sorbus obviously has a tough time with I. hispidus, this ones a bit early, a very odd fungal year.
  6. They are very harmful? are you doing this treatment in the U.K? care to elaborate and add some science?
  7. You know as well as I do that monolith (oak with laeti) will be sound for decades!
  8. Thats all ya need, plenty of practice, going on that lime youll do fine. trust yourself and get reducing my man:thumbup1:
  9. A fair assessment of the situation. However, the branch will most likely be sealed off at the collar as oposed to the stub end, depending on species of course. This year is a good year for pruning it is wet wet wet, so hydration of cells is at maximum potential, the key in functionality and lack of aeration into wounds, better compartmentalisation of DYSFUNCTION
  10. Being a lime it will be fine:thumbup1: you done a good job on that, kept the nature of the level of reduction discrete, a pollard of aesthetic form is what I would call it. nicely done
  11. thanks Mark:thumbup1:
  12. Nice job fellas, really good on ya all.
  13. why did you lick it off jammy? was it written in strawberry jam?
  14. There are sound arguments for and against just about any period regards pruning, I have long since ceased to worry about ANY period bar first leaf budding on certain species and periods of long dry weather which is for me the most important of all considerations. on the whole I would agree with you Here huck
  15. as the man said, bacterial, often indicating cracks
  16. this is special! "trees need maintenance in winter because they suffer from drought due to being less able to transport water" Nature lover(), what EXACTLY are you trying to communicate here? As I for one can make no sense of it at all.
  17. That pebble tool is going to be really useful for engaging arbs, lets hope that dogma does not prevail!
  18. im not certain it is that, but polar pholita as far as I know is Pholiota populnea but having looked I dont think yours is, but it is pholiota by the looks.
  19. my home town. tony 07952948202
  20. That poor old tree fella looks like he is due a hanging up of the harness. its a young mans game.
  21. absolutley mahoooooosive Polyporus squamosus on Chestnut pollard today, drying in the boot of me car! and theres all sorts of interesting beetles feeding on it too!
  22. Poplar pholiota very young, wait till they mature abit.
  23. not like you to miss interpret tony:biggrin:
  24. Some of you may remember this tree from posts some time ago, she has an advanced colonisation of Inonotus dryadeus. today I got to reduce her to a level I felt confidant about, funnily enough from the canopy I could see another dryadeus Oak I reduced just a 1/4 mile away as the crow flys. anyways, heres a few shots from the first time I saw the tree and the last few from today. It was looking very chlorotic today, Im going to try to get the owner to let me mulch her:thumbup1:

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