Adam M

Had it come up on a sugar or silver maple (get muddled) over the course of the last 2 months. The tree is now dead, having been poisoned several years ago. It's erupting from both drill holes as well as elsewhere around the base. It's a quick mover by the look of it. It should be down in a month so will try and get a pic of the base once it's felled.

Roble beech?

Yeah I got caught out by this species last week. Think this is most likely.

Goodness me.

I'm just gonna say would speculate rigidoporous. Would need to get a slice though.

All the bees are dead, And the leaves are nice, I went for a walk......

Winner.

Does the site have neighbours who may accidently see you carrying out a tree survey and wonder what you're up to?

I'm just not convinced that it isn't doable without having seen it myself. Either do a good job of what you were paid for, or walk away and not give it your beat shot and let someone else with less morals get paid.

Oslac, that's probably the best answer. To the op, if they had wanted to flatten the site, they wouldn't be looking to employ you. Draw them up a constraints plan and a tree survey. What's to say that the access couldn't be built using no-dig methods? Why can't strip foundations be sacked off and less invasive methods be used? You can't save all the trees, you'll go insane if you try to. You can provide a developer with a comprehensive appraisal of the trees and demonstrate their value, and make suggestions as to how important trees could be retained. As soon as the application, including your report is on the councils desk, your concerns should be addressed. If the council choose not to protect the trees you get paid. If they do, you get paid. No breaches of confidence. Everyone's happy.

Tilia henryia (sp?)

Get yer pics out

Say what you see, don't speculate. Perhaps recommend further surveying with either airspade or be gentle with a hand mattock.

Ben at Sapling Arboriculture.

Hi, the pic doesn't quite tell the whole story, picture another few dozen parallel rows. No focal point, doesn't lead from a to b. It's an unharvested plantation on common land that is now public open space. I've done a few words on history of avenues, problems etc. Just trying to justify continuing it as monoculture or work out a way to mix it up a bit without affecting having to rename the site

I've commented on widening the gene-pool and that had come into my mind as a consideration but for some reason hadn't made it to paper! Ta!

Briefly, I'm currently writing up a renewal plan for a Victorian avenue as part of the L6 Dip so am exploring 4 options. I have bent the boundaries a little for this as I'm not doing it on an avenue in a traditional sense but a collection of trees with much of the same characteristics/challenges: I have a large, semi-urban section of Common planted up with some 400 oaks (Q. robur), all mature/overmature. Regimented plantings, mostly equal distance of 10m centres.The majority were planted as Trafalgar oaks so are roughly 200 years old. Original intention was for ship building but never harvested as wood changed to steel etc. Problem: Single species, similar age class, likely little genetic diversity, likely crash in population over next 100 years, OPM just down the road. Current benefits: Plenty of trees with identifiable veteran features, including 'up and coming'. Visually unique - no similar feature, particularly in an urban fringe setting. I've covered total replacement, replacement of individual rows, replacement of groups and minimal intervention. I am currently weighing up species choice for replacement planting and am in a quandary. The site is called "The Mildmay Oaks" and replacing with other species would fundamentally change the character of the area. However, through repeating planting the same species, this results in similar threats in the future. Question is, would you be so bold as plant different species and confine the name of the site to the history books in the name of sustainable tree management or would you stick with the same to avoid rocking the boat?

When I was sending ADB material to FERA they wanted it in either screwtop plastic tubes or a4 sized sealable baggies. Both should be labeled with date, your name, sample location. I then bagged these up in a parcel bag.

Are these up top of Cricket Hill?

Wife has uc. Utterly grim on flare-ups. On prednisone, mercaptopurin and god knows what else. Doesn't seem any different to when she wasn't on those drugs. She's been offered another treatment which she isn't keen on until she's popped another kid out. Think it's a biological drug??

Yes mush

Fuligo sceptica?

Sounds like a nightmare. Do they have a tree officer or do they rely on planners to assess tpo/ca's?

I can't get my head around the question. Could you visit the council and ask to inspect any TPO's affecting the site? I'm guessing that the area tpo is old and likely not fit for purpose and rather than review it in its entirety, they are relying upon CA notices to flag up potentially non-tpo trees and then taking a piecemeal approach to protecting individual trees as they come in.

First is Acer capillides Second is like Andrew says above Unsure on third.