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Theoretically I suppose you could treat trees in pots, but the mildew is so ubiquitous now that it would just come back when they were planted out. The main effect it has is to reduce the amount of light penetrating the leaves, so oak seedlings are effectively more light-demanding than they would be otherwise. The American oak mildew reached us just over 100 years ago; prior to this it was possible to establish young oaks under the shade of older ones. Now they require full sun and an open aspect.
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And to think the poor kid has umpteen years of that to look forward to as she grows up. Getting rid of the trees might be difficult as they don't belong to the family and anyway they are only suspected as the cause. How soon can they move on to a place with no plane trees?
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Tractor-mounted flame weeder.
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I thought silver leaf only affected stone fruit.
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Why am I growing bonsai trees?
Beardie replied to spandit's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Field maple tends to be an understorey species anyway. I'd be thankful for any tree still alive and just replace dead ones. Also, bear in mind that any replacement trees may be shaded out by those that have grown to 10' in 3 years. Could slow growth be due to changes in ground conditions across the site? I helped my brother with beating up on a conservation plantation and there were staggering variations in soil texture and moisture content over quite small distances. No account of this had been taken by the original planters, naturally and it was the same Native Broadleaf Mix over the whole site. -
What do you mean by 'ring-like'?
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Do the customers have kids? I can just see them scattering it merrily around, then the customers blaming you for a) not rotting the stump and b) finding chip in unmentionable places.
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Old climbing rope needed to help Red Squirrels.
Beardie replied to Gardenmac's topic in General chat
Am I the first to wonder whether they make safety harnesses small enough for squirrels, and whether they can work the carabiners? -
It flowers, but doesn't set seed, because the clone imported here is sterile. Thank goodness.
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It doesn't lead to an actual webpage either on my notebook or the local library computers. I suppose I could navigate to it via Kew's homepage, but thought that I would flag it up in good faith having tried the link on two different devices. spiral, I have never heard of 'dud link' being used in senses 2 or 3, and suggesting that it's 4 is a bit out of order.
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Or hornbeams!
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Dud link.
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Was it cut down in someone's garden? If so, the range of possible species is far greater than if it came from a hedgerow or woodland.So Italian maple becomesan option, as no doubt do other Acers. Since it was cut down bearing young spring growth, we don't get a look at the flowers or fruit, which would have settled it.
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An interesting idea, but I can't help thinking that the charred wood might not hold the metal in place very well. A craftsman near me fills cracks with brass, but he does it with powdered metal in resin. If you visit YouTube, you can find videos of aluminium being poured into ants' nests to make casts of all the chambers and galleries. A bit off-topic, but I find it addictive.
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Why does a goshawk need a 4 acre exclusion zone around its nest?
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I thought the flowers looked like Styrax, but none of that family appear to have pinnate leaves as in the picture.
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It looks as if the first tree has simply given up trying to grow leaves where it can't get enough light for them. If this means the neighbour gets a better show than you, you can't blame the tree. The second tree could be suffering from more or less anything. Drought, chlorosis, competition from the massive great pine behind it, whatever.
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Up for grabs and free, lorry back for storage / kiln
Beardie replied to Acer Forestry's topic in General chat
:001_smile:All you need is to put the rest of the lorry back, then it would move easily! -
Unlikely to be a long and prosperous career!
Beardie replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in The Lounge
Not much good if the camera gets waved about so you can't see the action. Just about everything I've ever seen on YouTube is better than this. -
I couldnt have put it better myself, though the late Oliver Rackham did. In his book about the ash tree, he says he monitored this for fifty years and the oak came out first forty-eight times. On the other two, they came out together. All these country sayings seem to be somewhat suspect; I can even recall several occasions where the 'red sky at night...' ditty failed to deliver.
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Worth my time to extract alder
Beardie replied to Marsh Monkey's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Is there any market for 18" alder as sawlogs? I heard it is used for electric guitar bodies. -
Must be a new thing, doesn't appear on any of my Explorer maps. Mind you, none of them cover Sheffield, so they wouldn't be of much use to you.
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Maybe you could use it while wearing a MiG-25 pilot's pressure suit, also from the same seller! I had a look at these quite a while ago, but decided that an adze sharpened on the outside curve would be easier to use.
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I don't see this as a valid comparison. You expect people to comeup the garden path in order to put things through the letter box, within reason. There is no valid excuse for anyone to visit a private woodland with no public right of way without the owner's permission, so there is no extent to which the visit is reasonable. However, no doubt there's a whole bunch of ambulance-chasing lawyers who would disagree.
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I think that a lot of these lifestyle shows have people doing things in a deliberately spectacular way just for the camera. I recall an episode of Amazing Spaces where a log was split using explosives. I could have done the same thing with axe and wedges, but it made a nice BOOM sound, magnificent sight of the two halves falling apert, et cetera. I gave up watching the Alaskan homesteaders thing after they spent a whole hour's programme fretting about two people who had gone out on skiddoos and not returned. Turned out they had taken diesel not petrol to refuel, so had to be rescued, but were never in real peril. I think the bloke at Kew has a good reason for felling as he does, as he wants the stump out of the ground to plant a replacement, and it doesn't matter if he damages the timber.
