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  1. sloth
    Plain Tesco own brand for me, with cheddar grated on top and a slice of buttered-with-real-butter toast for moping up after. And proper bread too, seeded and whole grain something or other...
  2. sloth
    Initial discussion suggests this tree will be staying, toward the end of the new garden area. I can't help but think it's going to need some help to have a long-term future staying upright and in one piece! Anyone like to offer thoughts/opinion/advice, feel free. I'd like to encourage a phased retrenchment program. The tree currently has very high vigour, lots of good growth and no die back, it is showing distinct fluting around the columns of vascular dysfunction at the base with plenty of buttress reinforcing growth. My big worry is main limb failure, as there is lots of obvious decay at the crown break, extending into the bases of the scaffold limbs which are long and heavy, and I don't know if it's kretz, Ganoderma or both creeping up...
  3. sloth
    Now those pictures are much clearer! Can hispidus cause burr growths like that? I'd guess entry point was the pruned branch just above the old bracket, and the decay is now making its way up and past it. I reckon the burr is a separate beast entirely. Are you responsible for the tree? Any idea on its future?
  4. sloth
    Wrong pic Mick?...
  5. sloth
    I don't know the name of it, but it never gets taller than that does it? Wouldn't it be easier to just live with it?
  6. sloth
    I've passed by Glemham Hall lots of times, it looks a fantastic ancient tree filled estate, but I've never been in to look. Worth a look online, plenty of photos, or Google earth/street view to get an impression...
  7. sloth
    Ah ok, a bit north for me. I'll have a ponder and let you know if I think of anything particularly nice...
  8. sloth
    Too many places! Where abouts in east Anglia? There's Epping, staverton thicks, the broads, mersea island, along most rural sections of main rivers, flatford....
  9. sloth
    Can't say at present, is part of a small development site, there is another on the opposite side of the garden, and the client (prior to this discovery) was keen on keeping both. Maybe there'll be scope to keep it in some form in a less used part of what will be a garden...
  10. sloth
    45cm diameter wound on a 1m diameter stem, level with the top of the punching bag, on the back side. Kretz running from in the wound down to the ground, bases of both left and right scaffold branches sounding hollow. Poor thing!
  11. sloth
    Unusual find David, bog standard kretz and Ganoderma on copper beech here...
  12. sloth
    Depends on the client and their opinion of the tree and preferred options really. If they are keen on keeping and managing it then it'll likely need a closer look; It looks like a sizable tree in close proximity to houses.
  13. sloth
    Do you always back up your arguments so eloquently?! I agree it could be, but I certainly wouldn't say definitely - other things can cause die back in ash too...
  14. sloth
    Are they cracks in the exposed wood? If so, could be decay causing a thinner supporting wall which is buckling, and causing bark plates to 'ping' off...
  15. sloth
    Very interesting paper here, I'm only around half way through it... http://www.wcmt.org.uk/fellows/reports/management-techniques-minimise-effects-ash-dieback
  16. sloth
    Overall the chances of being in a tree when it suffers sbd are tiny, let alone being tied in to the branch which fails. Really we are all around trees all the time, and even witnessing an sbd event is rare. The concern has crossed my mind in the past, but I never let it worry me...
  17. sloth
    Right you are!
  18. sloth
    Leave it be, it will strengthen where it needs to - axiom of universal stress...
  19. sloth
    With that colour, yew...
  20. sloth
    Well said, outlaw. A joke and a bit of ribbing is good fun, when it's mutual...
  21. sloth
    Symptoms like that on a cedar, with peeling bark too, just as if not more likely to be Armillaria. Check for white fans of mycellium at the base under the bark...
  22. sloth
    Yep, give Trust a call. Keep in mind that you will need to continue cover for a few years after you stop writing reports...
  23. sloth
    What exactly are you asking?
  24. sloth
    Have you ruled out Polyporous squamosus?
  25. sloth
    Looks likely...

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