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Veteran trees and industrial and urban development
sloth replied to Xerxses's topic in Picture Forum
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Todays little project... Keep 'em off the lawn!
sloth replied to Xerxses's topic in Tree health care
Essentially, mulch rotting down improves the soil, adding organic matter, nutrients, and encouraging worms, mycorhizal fungi etc. It's not quite that simple though, it can provide honey fungus an easy meal while it looks for a living victim, or upset the natural balance of species specific organisms for example. Look here, a good thread on it. Some nice photos too... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2847 -
Todays little project... Keep 'em off the lawn!
sloth replied to Xerxses's topic in Tree health care
I believe it stops grass/weeds from growing for a time, and that worms love the glue in it. Also it rots down, unlike geotextile sheets. Happy to be corrected though! Looks a real nice job, satisfying -
There's a little mycophile in all of us!
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I saw a Randy Stubblefield in a programme about hurricane hunters, made me chuckle...
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Phil McCrevice, Nick O'Tene
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Perhaps a minimum post count or membership date, or a guarantor?
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I like salubrious. Drop it in wherever you can! Meripilus is not salubrious to beech health...
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Mr Rainford I believe you're next, sling a PM my way, my time is almost up... You're gonna like it
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I never said it was a good idea move on much easier!
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If they aren't worthy of a TPO you could appeal against it...
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Do you still have my address?
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Thank you very much :thumbup: I've had this on order from NHBC for nearly a year, every month I get an email promising a reprint is due; its very depressing! After this I may have to acquire an extortionately priced second hand copy... That is quite a stack of books there, does he have doubles of them all? Very generous whatever the case!
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Ooo, I'm all excited now! First call on ALL of them! Joking
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Why would you do that!?
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Really? Ive not done many, but can think of three over the last few years that were reduced/topped quite severely to avoid structural collapse; a few years on and plenty of new shoots they look as ok as heavily reduced tree can do...
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Yep, so pricey on amazon! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Principles-Assessment-Management-Research-Amenity/dp/0117533556/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345818934&sr=1-1 I think the AA now have publishing rights to this series of books. If so should make it more affordable for most
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Try treelife. They have courses all over, and will do distance/correspondence courses...
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Principles of tree hazard assessment and management, D Lonsdale A very comprehensive book, and a must for academic arb course
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Yep, quite likely merip. Young enough and plentiful for a plate full too
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Techno Viking, what a legend Come on though, I thought there'd be more ponytail toting, arbalk lurking, tree hugging/pruning/planting/felling (delete as appropriate) hippies on here... ...don't be shy, the balding, cropped toppers are just jealous. Show what you got, be proud of your hair!
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I'm sure there were good reasons for not answering. Maybe he never returned and saw them? Shame though, I'd have been interested in the reply...
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There was a post on here a while back regarding phytoremediation. A company had carried out a project (possibly the first in the UK, possibly in Reditch. Though don't quote me on that!) along those lines. I think they used standard trees, didn't answer my questions either. Not sure if they ever returned to arbtalk even...
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Quite spectacular! Note tr ratio, I'd say a bit less than 0.3, and most of the stem. Not a full crown any more though!. Lovely tree, what's its fate?
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Someone had to do it!
