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  1. spandit
    Putting warm logs on the fire certainly helps so keep a full log basket. I burn a lot of leylandii, willow and punky birch - much of it home grown and the longer it keeps the oil tanker away the better!
  2. spandit
    Will do!
  3. spandit
    Haven't used Copford's but got a quote from them recently for some oak gate posts that was very competitive - would have bought them but we're going brick pillars now
  4. spandit
    I'm sorry, I was a bit bored and away from home, I just wondered what could happen if I didn't seek permission. Of course, I will try to talk to them but they're not very sociable with their other neighbours, as it happens.
  5. spandit
    Part of the issue is, it's a second home and they're not often there. I have spoken briefly to her and she doesn't want the trimmings back, unsurprisingly. I'm sure you understand that I'm just getting a reaction posting this and I'm not intending on criminal damage but hadn't considered not being able to climb the trees. I will draft a letter - might even mention the fact her trees are pushing my wall down!
  6. spandit
    Been there 15 months and have spoken to her 3 times. Never even met him
  7. spandit
    I'd be impressed they actually did the work themselves! It was tongue in cheek, I think the anti-social hedge thing is an option but I'll probably just ask them
  8. spandit
    There is a row of lovely leylandii blocking the light into my bedroom and I'm getting a tree surgeon in to cut back the bits that overhang my boundary, the nature of the tree is that it's quite a lot. However, if he were to top the remainder, what kind of penalties could ensue, assuming the bloody things survive?
  9. spandit
    If you dig it out I'll rehome it for you - plenty of space for it to go mad here
  10. spandit
    Have you considered the Woodland Trust MOREWoods scheme - gives you a 60% discount on everything? Limited to native trees only but that's what you're planting
  11. spandit
    Funnily enough, I'd only just come back inside to begin the data entry for my tree survey of the ones I planted last Winter. My 'phone rang and someone saying they were calling from "Tree Health" asked if I'd planted any sweet chestnut (I hadn't, but only because the Woodland Trust ran out of stock). Apparently there is a problem with blight and if I were looking at nut production, then they'd need to come and inspect them. It's going to be a few years before I get any nuts out of the ones I'm planning on planting this Winter but first I'd heard that there might be a problem
  12. spandit
    E-mail sent...
  13. spandit
    I'm not going to remove them but the self seeders will not get deliberately targeted. Might get mown down or eaten. Not a massive fan of birch as it rots so quickly which is another reason I didn't order any. Thanks for replies
  14. spandit
    You are right. I lost momentum when my laptop blew up and since replacing it I haven't got round to updating it again
  15. spandit
    Leaves look a bit big to be silver birch - the ones that have self seeded all over the place have much smaller leaves than that (it's why I didn't want to pay for any when I get them for free!). The only ones that were planted in spirals were blackthorn, hawthorn, spindle and hazel. As I mentioned, there's no dead stick in the spiral - this is what was planted. Curious to see what it turns out to be. I'll try to get a picture of the bark in due course
  16. spandit
    The only poplar I planted was aspen and that should have been in tubes, not spirals. Curious. Don't think it's silver birch as leaves are far too big. Downy birch seems like a candidate - not overly impressed at the nursery mix-up but at least they're putting on some growth which is more than can be said for some of the other species I put in!
  17. spandit
    I'll have a closer look when I'm next out - thanks!
  18. spandit
    There are plenty of silver birch coming up naturally but these have definitely been deliberately planted - there are no other bareroot trees in the same tubes/spirals so must have been a mix-up at the nursery. Not overly bothered, having a mixture is good, but would just like to know what they are. Busy surveying all my trees at the moment - ordered a load of numbered cable ties to mark the ones that didn't make it: Surveying them takes quite a while and entering it all into a database takes even longer but I do like being nerdy with statistics
  19. spandit
    Out of my 1500 trees, I've found a few that have grown into something like this: The only trees I planted in spirals were hazel, spindle, hawthorn & blackthorn (or at least, that's what the order said) Not sure if it's the same as this: But there are a few that look like this - good growers (possibly downy birch?)
  20. spandit
    PM sent
  21. spandit
    I did scatter a lot of acorns in my top field and there are hundreds coming up, although how many are due to squirrels, I don't know. My wife has grown some Scots pine from seed, which is convenient because one of the ones I planted has died
  22. spandit
    I'm TN21 if it helps
  23. spandit
    Poplar hawk moth, I reckon (thanks for narrowing it down!)
  24. spandit
    OK, didn't last as long as I thought! What kind is it?
  25. spandit
    On a young apple tree. Answer to follow...

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