Gary Prentice

So the victim is to blame?

It wouldn't be any hassle to incorporate in new plantings and, according to the rep who phoned me last week, there's a lot of other benefits being currently investigated and researched.

Very informative David, I can't say it's something (as a dog owner) that I've ever seriously considered

I think the gnomes actually a peeping Tom:biggrin:

I wonder how the cost/benefit analysis works out for these spaces? The overall loss of car parking spaces to family spaces against profits from their users? Just musing. Personally I park in the furthest reach of any car park because 1) the L200 has the lock of a coach and four, 2) some careless twot will always smack my door with theirs in any normal space or scrape a trolley down the wing and 3) the Mrs moans like hell about walking:biggrin: Someone still parks next to me despite the twenty empty spaces either side. Maybe they think cars get lonely when parked in isolation:confused1:

:blushing: I haven't read that yet. I save these up for treatment sessions for some 'me time', reading all your post since the last time. I used to read them as posted but found that I was getting rushed simply to read them and then didn't have time to follow up and read the references etc. I assume that congrats are in order? And commiserations for your book budget:biggrin:

I must not buy any more books, I must not buy any more books, I must not buy any more books, I must not buy any more books, I must not buy any more books, I must not buy any more books, I must not buy any more books, I must not buy any more books, I must not buy any more books, I must not buy any more books.............. I'll put it on my search list:biggrin:

The customer is always right. If he wants it done this way, write out a quote and specification to meet his requirements and charge accordingly. Give him a second quote, corresponding to the way you'd normally do it, then he can put his money where his mouth is! If no marks are the highest criteria he has- he'll pay. You might find this suddenly becomes less important when the implications of cost are visible.

:congrats:

Both of these have now arrived and I've had a quick scan through. Good books. My interest is piqued, so I've ordered [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Dutch-Elm-Disease-Research-Approaches/dp/1461568749/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1457858095&sr=1-1&keywords=Dutch+Elm+Disease+Research%3A+Cellular+and+Molecular+Approaches]Dutch Elm Disease Research: Cellular and Molecular Approaches: Mariam B. Sticklen, James L. Sherald: 9781461568742: Amazon.com: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51at3hxPigL.@@AMEPARAM@@51at3hxPigL[/ame]

Maybe a stupid question, but wouldn't the natural defense mechanisms in coniferous species naturally seal the timber anyway?

Will you let us know when it gets sited?

Sorry to derail - but I think your questions being answered. Where did the requirement for these parent/child spaces originate from? I think they've been around so long we think they are needed rather than that they were actually derived as a marketing ploy to get mum's to chop at x supermarket rather than Y. They're a convenience - not a necessity, and we've been hoodwinked:biggrin:

Lombardy poplar makes lovely logs, honest guv!

And my wife buys them!

Edit - replied to wrong post.

Everyone forgets the post office worker/ BR employee who died. Must have been hard on their family for all those years after seeing the media play Ronnie Biggs and co up.

It's the single item on my bucket list. The wife doesn't do long flights - I'll selfishly go on my own.

It will be big and green soon:001_tt2: I don't know about in other areas, but replanting is not that successfully enforced locally. Generally felling results in a net loss because of the lack of resources on the LA's part to pursue it. Clients don't want to spend another £80 -£100 on a decent sized tree when they see them as a problem to start with. I've no answers.

All valid points, which I can't disagree with. One particular point is the Area TPO is 35 years old. The landscape changes, as do the trees - so it appears to the owner although it's not a particularly good tree it's being retained due to the lack of review. If we could improve the successful replanting statistics, it may reduce the 'keep at all costs' mindset and allow a bit of flexibility about trees that upset people/ are lower value/need pruning to fit regularly. At present I feel I've a foot in path camps, understanding the LA side and why they feel forced to make decisions and the client sides who think some trees are making their lives intolerable. It's difficult when the client sees huge council/public tree losses for metrolink schemes and the such, then can't see why they have to keep theirs. Or the loss on development sites to meet housing targets. I wish I had some better answers, but it feels like everyone is pulling against each other with usually totally different aims. I have no real answers, but think we're still heading towards future problems with limited species and age diversity, pathogenic losses etc. Where are we going to end up in 30,40, 50 years. I would hope that everyone starts getting on the good management principle of 'the right tree in the right place' - all we seem to do is cut back to make trees fit, day after day, or fell trees totally unsuitable for their location. Seems pointless, but it keeps the contractors/tree surgeons employed (of which I'm one) I question more and more often what we are actually achieving (apart from being employed) as it just seems a merry-go-round without any real successful gains. Ignore my depressive state, with three hours of paperwork before I go home (for what?) it seems so pointless at the moment. Maybe time for a career change. Gary

Think your right!

Is this due the unavailability of a mechanism to condition the proposal? I think it's the way forward to create a sustainable urban canopy cover rather than trying to sustain an ageing urban population? Plant more species and get more age diversity.

The public lack tolerance to the disbenefits of trees and generally lack knowledge of all their benefits. Education and promotion of the urban/peri urban canopy cover needs far more attention than it currently receives, but mention street tree/I-tree to most and it's a foreign language. Some good opinions but still no solution to my question