daltontrees

Read it again. I'm saying that felling a protected tree because it's dangerous doesn not exempt prosecution under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. That's the law, and that was Scottish Natural Heritage's position. No-one's saying it makes sense or that it's fair and reasonable, but that IS the law. We couldn't move the pigeon, but we could move the people. It was fortunate tha the owner was able to reschedule some renovation of the hotel dining area and use another room for the guests meantime, so no-one was at risk. I put a Beaufort Scale threshold in place anad not even the workies were allowed in on windy days.

Ddin't know that. They're both family Rosaceae, so it seems logical.

https://www.pippintrees.co.uk/trees/whitebeam see the last line of this link. Also soem of the rare WHitebeams on UK (the welsh, arran, bristol etc.) are being kept ging by grafting onto Rowan. The Leys Whitebeam is apparently down to a dozen or so but the genetic material is also beign preserved by grafting onto aucuparia rootstock and grown in a botanics. The suckering leaves of Whitebeam I have seen in Edinburgh, and they looked like Swedish Whitebeam leaves, or even more dissected, like Bastard Service. Only much bigger. It's in their blood.

Dawn Redwood, the needles are in opposite pairs. For Taxodium they are alternate. Als T.d needles are pointed like Seventh Devil's nails, but these are rounded'

Up here in a local Council area I have had a client tell me he had to apply in a CA, and because there was no Arb report the COuncil won't validate. Wrong upon wrong. I'm about the educate them. But one needs to be careful. The Council might think they can threaten to TPO a notified tree if the correct form of notification doesn't come in. I believe that would be intra vires, if somewhat unethical. But if Council's are doing it deliberately (this particular Council I don't think is that smart) rather than ignorantly, they're probably bluffing. I always advise clients that this is a slight risk. Last year I called bluff with one Council; they were bluffing.

If Red Maple means Norway Maple Schwedllerii or Crimson King, they're b*****s for girdlign roots, I've seen a few leaners caused by it. In the long term the survivirs seem to overcome it, don't know if the roots fuse witht eh stem eventually. The root in the 3rd pic is going to cut off vascular flows above and below, probably not fatal as MAples are diffue porous, but ofr the proper developentof the tree I'd take the chance and cut it. Sharp chisel and hammer would be better than a saw, don't worry if you can't quite get all the way through.

Just to clarify, there was no candlelight or questions popped ?

Those yellow marks in the pictures are yellow 'no 'parking' lines, that's the only dimensions I can give. Rough, sandpapery feel to leaves, like glabra.

I found this one (actually 2 beside each other in Stirling this week. What is it? It's an Elm for sure, but which one.

If it's an Elm it doens't look like one of the british ones, but is a close match to Siberian U. pumila. I have a confusing Elm ID pic coming up...

Backfill the periphery with firmed soil, mulch again and leave. You might expect some important roots further down that would be knackered by a tree spade (which is not a cheap business at that size). I'd be tempted to carefully examine root structure and see if any selective girdling roots above 25mm could be severed cleanly.

The current conditions are unusual but not unprecedented. Have these trees lived through similar dry conditions in the last few decades? Yes. Did they survive? Well, obviously yes. Will they do it again? Almost certainly. They might even flush again this year if we get some decent rain. Is thre any risk in waiting till next spring?

The White Willow/Phellinus ignarius association is a strong one. I saw it on almost every late mature withey I surveyed in north Wales a couple of years ago, and on injured younger trees too. I think it's common name is Willow Bracket. Yours looks like classic P.i., can't think what else it would be.

PS I'm still just saying what I was told at the weekend. I haven't observed any of this first-hand yet.

That's for a clan of typically 6-7. Nomadic badgers can cover 200km2. Setts can have satellite setts that are only used for short periods, perhaps coinciding with foraging there, and would extend the territory. It's more energy-efficient to build a satellite sett than to commute every day, bearing in mind that setts can last for centuries.

Me too, best repost picture.

I was on a badger course yesterday, so I',m not an expert, but it's fresh in my mind. This wasp nest question came up. Foxes and badgers will both seek out wasps nests, and apparently are good at judging the point at which the grubs are at their plumpest. Badgers when they dig push stuff to their sides and behind, whereas foxes shove it mainly behind. If there's a big area of spoil it's probably badger. Typiucal badger territory is 1km2. Sett could be on adjacent land. But it's been a hard hard year for badgers finding food, so they could be coming from further away, foraging new territory. Or they could be nomadic. All according to the Badger Society yesterday.

And presumably a bigger surface area to have to callus over? Oddly enough, Shigo in Modern Arboriculture says small damaged roots should be followed back to where they are at least 1-2cm diameter and cut there. Suggesting a bigger wound is better.

I haven't been able to find any such literature.

It may be difficult to establish the type of damage sheet liping does, since its very nature is to drive steel sheets into the ground rather than excavate then retain. The severed end of tree roots will always remain covered on the retained side. Shhet piles are typically 20mm steel sheets, hardly a Silky for clean cuts. Likely to mash anything in their way. Remember, RPA is a rooting volume for ongoing vitality, and BS 5837 says (constructively) nothing about avoiding tree roots. Apart from slow hand-digging to identify roots before they are damaged, there is no precaoution against wholesale severance by the likes of sheet piling. 5837 doesn't mention sheet piling but the generality is that "5.3.1 The default position should be that structures (see 3.10) are located outside the RPAs of trees to be retained. However, where there is an overriding justification for construction within the RPA, technical solutions might be available that prevent damage to the tree(s) (see Clause 7). If operations within the RPA are proposed, the project arboriculturist should: a) demonstrate that the tree(s) can remain viable and that the area lost to encroachment can be compensated for elsewhere, contiguous with its RPA; b) propose a series of mitigation measures to improve the soil environment that is used by the tree for growth." I suspect you're at that point now. "technical solutions might be available that prevent damage to the tree(s)" are a non-starter, as it will be like getting a haircut with a hatchet. "demonstrating th the trees can remain viable" may include arguments about vitaity in the face of likely pathogen colonisation of several crush wounds below ground in an unreadable quasi-anaerobic environment where pathogens lurk at their finest. In that context, compensation of rooting volume elsewhere would be cold comfort to a tree, or to an amenity-conservant LPA. Good luck with it.

What, is this descending into the Facebook version of Arbatalk? It's Sorbus aria, Whitebeam. It's probably called Whitebeam because it's white and the early english word for tree is 'beam' c.w. current german 'Baum' = tree, and the word for horizontal wooden structural members in buildings = beam. And yes I am a pompous word/tree snob. But doesn't make me wrong. I just cling on involuntarily to ways of remebering things. And Oakstag, the Lutescens I think is a cultivar of Whitebeam, and when you see a confrimed one it's quite gobsmacking how big and White the leaves are. Doesn't Collins Tree Guide describe them as like paper plates left behind after a picnic?

Nothing to worry about. I surveyed 50 trees today, typical spectrum, of which about 5 were mature Sycamore and 2 of them had flaking bark like this. As long as the bark beneath is intact I can see no cause for alarm, it's probably just a variation betwen individuals, like one person having freckles and another not. It can occasionally be a useful visual indicator of recently abnormal flexure of stems forks or limbs (hinting at underlying hollowing), but more so on Chestnut than Sycamore. I think Mattheck's various pubications hint at this.

Craesus latitarsus. Look it up.

Because the law says so. But that wasn't my point. It was about arithmetic. The age of criminal responsibility only matters if Vespasian's statistic strictly said 'prison'. I repeat, I couldn't give a stuff about the subject matter. Whrn anyone who says 'the facts are .... and therefore ...', it does well to check the facts because without them the 'therefore' means nothing.

Not if you assume none of the women have done time. Take a population of say 100 women and 100 men. 7% are convicted criminals. That's 14 people. Now, if you assume all the women are not convicted, then 14 of the 100 men are. That's 14%. About 20% of the population is under 18 and can't go to prison. So 80 of the males can. 14 have. That's 17.5%. Vespasian had it right on the approach to the arithmetic. I couldn't give a stuff about the subject matter. Thought I was losing it up to that point.