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Well done, I don't think I would have got a few of them without labels or seeing the hwole tree for a couple of minutes. Say what you want about teh germans, but they are hard to beat on civic pride. Not a single tree had been vandalised, so they were generally all in very good condition and trouble had been taken in many places to plant a good variety of species. It was a joy just to walk down an average street.

Ahh, well spotted. I think I missed the real 24, which is Prunus serrula which teh Germans call Mahogani-Kirsche, can't think of British name for now. So the last of the answers should be 21 Sequoiadendron giganteum Giant Redwood 22 Populus x canescens Grey Poplar 23 Davidia involucrata Handkerchief Tree 24 Prunus serrula 25 Cercis siliquastrium Judas Tree 26 Rhamnus davurica Dahurian Buckthorn

So, did anyone look at these? How did you do?

Last of the answers. 21 Sequaoiadendron giganteum Giant Redwood 22 Popuus x canescens Grey Poplar 23 Davidia involucrata Handkerchief Tree 24 Cercis siliquastrium Judas Tree 25 Rhamnus davurica Dahurian Buckthorn, a right difficult one

Very interesting video and nice to see what Mattheck and Weber look like in real life. Useful examples of Plane Massaria towards the end.

Beech Bark Disease is a fungus Nectria coccinea, hte tree gets nfected by it due to the spores being carried on boring insects Cryptocuccus fagisuga. That looks liek a heavy putbreak, get them scrubbed off before spring and it might not bee too late for the tree. A couple of heavy outbreaks in a row can be enough to kill a tree off slowly a few years after te insects are gone.

You might need to clarify a few things. Did you apply for planning permission for use of the barn and yard as wood processing and storage? And sales? And was the application refused? Or is the Council taking enforcement action against you for these uses on the basis that you haven't got consent? Are you extracting timber from the nearby land you mention? Has there historically been a link between the barn/yard and that land for forestry extraction and storage? Pending you answering some of these, it sounds like a case where the Council would have been OK with the use of the barn/yard if it was ancillary to timber extraction but might now feel that the wood business is a separate use in its own right. If you are buying in timber for processing and storage, the Council would be right to feel that. There are so many things to take into account in deciding planning applications or appeals. Council policies, national policies, the supply of suitable sites elsewhere, the need for the use, traffic generation, noise, loss of amenity, neighbouring uses, loss of the original use of the land etc. Rarely a black or white issue, lots of grey areas.

But if the seller gets what he wants on the open market then they are the same thing.

I would agre with Mr Balir. If you take it back to the stems, it will never go green again. Climb up inside the middle 'tree', make yourself comfortable, if it's bee topped bewfore there will be a little perch in there somehwere. Pick a height, the height of previous topping or just above is the obvious choice, otherwise 10' (3m) is a good default. Get a Silky, cut a window through all stems at that height on the garden side till you can see civilisation, then just carry on cutting and chucking till the top's done. Then get down somehow, have a quick look at the sides to see how much can go while still leaving a bit of green, take off any of the thicker branches with Silky or loppers then give the rest of it the good news with hedge trimmers. Tidy up, job done. Neighbours will love it.

Hurrah!

Youy can't get saltpetre, it's what is used to make gunpowder and it is banned. The drilling and smouldering trick with it used to work just as well with Sodium Chlorate but the killjoy brigade banned that too. I used to trace shallow roots out and drill them too, put a bit of Sodium Chlorate in the hole and plug it with putty. Absolutely devastated the roots. But I guess the issue here is whether by poisoning the felled trees you will poison the perimeter ones. You can't , anuy subsurface connection between them will be trivial if the perimeter ones are by now established trees in their own right. Besides, an experiment of mine showed that the glyphosate absorption applied to cambium of recently (and I mean within 5 minutes of felling) cut stump will only travel downwards about 25cm, just neough to kill off everything that might sprout from the stump but not extending to roots. They die because they get no more food. Felled poplar roots will sucker up to 30 metres away for about a year, just go back and finish them off as soon as they appear and before they get woody, they'll soon give up. Instead of removing suckers, they can be sprayed with Roundup or wiped with a systemic herbicide gel.

Some answers at long last. 16 Sophora japonica Japanes Pagoda Tree, top marks if you got it without the foliage pic. 17 Ailanthus altissima Tree of Heaven, I always though these were rare these seemed to be everywhere in Lorrach. 18 Tough one this, Hovenia dulcis, Oriental Raisin Tree 19 Juglans Regia, Walnut 20 Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca', Blue Atlas Cedar

Is that the one that's on General Tree Pics now? Loooks pretty discoloured inside the utt. Did a post mortem show up any particular ailment?

No worries, didn't even see your post until now. Anyway, looks like something has changed around the base and roots. Still waiting for a history from the OP.

I think they are just consulting on the format of the web-based guidance to replace the Blue Book. There is apparently no intention to consult on whether the guidance or the law that it is based on is correct. Statutory undertakers are exempt from Planning legislation control of trees.

Looks just as likely they have been reduced and grouted blockwork put in place. If so, where do you start to explain why that's a bad idea?

No. 26, last one and a bit of a challenge.

No. 25

No. 24, should be just enough in this pic to get it.

No. 23

Sorry guys and gals I have been preoccupied with other things for a few days. Here's the rest of the pictures. No. 22

Table 3.1 in Tree Roots in the Built Environment is an analysis of the actual roots of a great number of trees that were blown down in a storm at Kew. Tabe 3.2 is probably what you want, the main properties of roots of the main tree species in Europe.

Looks like the rope broke at the lower shackle. I suppose it doesn't matter how strong the rope is, if you bend it round a tight radius like a shackle it's going to break.

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Absolutely, if there is any doubt at all about who gets the profits. Fundamentally you need to have the security of tenure to justify your long-term aim. If you can get the trees grown and harvested and the land reinstated before the end of the lease then I can't see why a landlord would be bothered. Some leases will say that the tenant gets compensated for improvements or unharvested crops at the end of the lease, but the landlord's consent for some improvements is usually required, largely for this reason. There should be grants available, and if so you may have to involve the landlord in the application process anyway.