Gary Prentice
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Thanks Nepia, I think that's a suitable solution, or at least one that I'm comfortable proposing to the client. I've never tested our soil, but with the rhodies, camellia and azaleas in the garden I've always assumed it to be acidic. We do seem to have an odd microclimate, the road outside retains snow several days later than the surrounding roads and our last surviving Photinia is right on the boundary with it,
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I see you're in the Borders Tom. that could suggest that your climates effected by the gulf stream and is better than ours. Or I might be talking a load of nonsense:biggrin: Looking at ours again, all the twiggy leaf bearing extremities have died due to the hard pruning. The whole gardens mulched with rotted woodchip, so I'll assume is well fed and moisture retentive. Probably worrying about this too much, but I'm fearful of pruning hard a killing the hedge off. Currently I'm not confident that it wouldn't.
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The one by our garden gate which was cut back for access, not by me, looks like its waiting for its last rites. Seems like I need some 'northern' responses:biggrin:
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Wow.... That's something I wouldn't expect based on my experience here. Most that I see are pretty sorry looking, disfigured by, I guess, foliar fungal colonization or insect predation, and looking for one more reason to give up the ghost and die.
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I've a client with a nice Photinia hedge, which has become far too wide. I don't know if Photinia can be cut back hard and will rejuvenate, like beech, yew etc. IME with this shrub any pruning into bare wood seems to make it turn up its toes - but it doesn't do well in our own garden for some reason. Previously this hedge has been maintained by trimming lightly, removing some of the new growth. To reduce the width would mean cutting back a couple of feet interior to the peripheral growth! I suspect it wouldn't re-shoot, but don't honestly know. It's north of Manchester in the Pennines.
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A couple more. Harley, his bro and one of them six years ago.
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Goat willow
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Most are at work, but here's Busa chilling
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You've gotta love rotties as a breed, we've three and a cocker. I'd never have another cocker.
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It's on hold, but when I go for my transplant I'm taking my laptop, some books and plan to make some serious inroads into it. Hopefully tomorrows chemo doesn't make me lose my mental faculties again. Apologies for the derail.
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We're a fine group of arbs, we can't even agree what tree it is:biggrin: For what it's worth I think a dawn redwood:001_tongue:
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If I ever complete my research project we may have some quantified data to back up that opinion:001_tt2: Which opinion, btw, I share -with absolutely no data to back it up)
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I've climbed hundreds of dead trees, particularly elms but probably only half a dozen cedars. You'll have a fair idea before you ascend too high if there's something amiss - It won't feel/move right. I've realised something was wrong on some trees with no external symptoms, to find out later on that they were seriously internally decayed with hardly any residual walls. To raise your level of confidence it might be worth having a dig around the root buttresses to assess any decay, prior to climbing.
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Thanks David. With what the owner told me regarding colour, that was my first thought but I didn't want to jump to erroneous conclusions. It's on a property that I'm hoping to have a long association with, so it will be interesting to note how things develop. Unfortunately the tree's immediately adjacent to a drive and garage, which raises the risk factor a little. My initial advice was a reduction of one limb, with a number of structural defects, to reduce the lever arm. With a 'positive ident' and a little more investigation, I'll probably stick on that for now.
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Probably asking a bit much, but has anyone a suggestion as to what this may be? It was growing on dead/dysfunctional areas of a cherry. I've tried to get a shot of the pore layer, but it's pretty featureless and desiccated. The owner said the largest bracket was around eight inches across in its prime, with the top surface a yellowish colour. Many thanks in anticipation. I'll try and get some better pics.
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Bit difficult when you've already filled up with fuel:biggrin: I tried driving away but got in trouble:lol:
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I saw a note in a butty shop in Liverpool, stating that they would not serve anyone using a mobile phone:thumbup1: I also hate shop assistants who are using their phones:thumbdown:
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It was, a Labrador of colour if I remember right. I think it had some attitude too (NWA) How times change.....
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I think all American Tilia species are generally known as Basswood, T americana, heterophylla & caroliniana are just the ones I could find on a quick search. [ame]https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lime-trees-Basswoods-Biological-Monograph-Genus/dp/0521840546/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462197948&sr=1-4&keywords=basswood[/ame]
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Case Law relating to severed roots?
Gary Prentice replied to jacquemontii's topic in Trees and the Law
Can you reasonably 'require abatement' if no actionable nuisance was occurring? This is the part that I can't determine in my own mind. The nuisance has to be actionable for a CC Judge to order it's abatement and if that leads to the tree loss - so be it. But if you warn the owner that you're going to cut the roots because you don't like them in your garden, even though they are not causing a legal nuisance and only a nuisance in the ordinary sense, you can safely (possibly) force the trees removal if it results in death or instability. To my mind, a judge wouldn't order abatement if the roots weren't causing damage yet by forewarning the owner, common law allows it. A Gordian knot indeed. I feel like Heathers Marchmellow is jumping around in my brain thinking about it:confused1: -
I'm fairly confident that knowing the construction of our vault, it would only take a few minutes with an angle grinder to cut through the outer steel and the bolt of the lock underneath to open it. On their own I no longer rate them, unless coupled with layer upon layer of other security measures.
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Case Law relating to severed roots?
Gary Prentice replied to jacquemontii's topic in Trees and the Law
As I understand it (which may be wrong) In the absence of statutory protection you can remove encroaching limbs and roots. But if this results in the death or failure of the tree, there is a risk that the neighbour has been negligent in their actions and may become liable. So it's all about a reasonable degree of root/branch pruning, that doesn't deprive the owner of their tree (by killing it) or causes it to become unstable to a degree that it fails or has to be felled to prevent it's failure. But as there is no case law (that I know about) it's all theoretical. -
Case Law relating to severed roots?
Gary Prentice replied to jacquemontii's topic in Trees and the Law
You can say that again! I was hoping somewhat was going to come along and provide a case. -
VTA Field guide worth it if getting the encyclopedia?
Gary Prentice replied to Island Lescure's topic in General chat
Let me know if you're over this way,and you can borrow both to have a look and make a decision. -
Thanks Island, I spend far to much time typing up the survey results, it looks to be worthwhile to have a play around with. Gary
