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  1. spandit
    Thanks, I couldnt really find any information on what my "woodland" might look like after 1,2,3 etc. years so thought I'd post up how mine is doing. I've started a blog as I post on different forums and it's easier to consolidate things in there. I'm lucky that my gorse isn't in big patches, it's confined to hedgerows so should be fairly easy to remove, prickles aside. I just think I could use the space for some more useful species (there'll still be plenty of gorse around). Will follow the advice of cutting it back and trimming and I like the idea of using it as a dead hedge to deter deer - that's certainly something I'll look at doing as they're generally great for wildlife.
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    My land is pretty damp, I'm surprised that gorse needs dry soil, to be honest.
  3. spandit
    We've plenty of bracken!
  4. spandit
    Should I leave the brash to rot, then, or will that cause moe problems than it solves? Black locust is leguminous so shouldn't have problems. Service trees might be a little trickier and still not sure if they'll grow in our soil
  5. spandit
    Seeing as gorse is a nitrogen fixer, I would have thought it could have a benefit for surrounding trees. I want to plant some different trees along my hedgerow (black locust, service tree etc.) and thought of making space by removing some of the gorse. I know it will regenerate from the stump but I'm not talking about a big area so can keep it under control year on year. Don't want to use herbicides but just wondered if I'd be wasting my time trying to plant by freshly cut stumps?
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    We all know leylandii and elder make the best firewood, so you'll be thrilled to know that after many years of painstaking research, I have finally produced a hybrid of the two species, I present to you, sambucus leylandii
  7. spandit
    Been offered a load of seedlings but haven't taken them yet, although I suspect the mature sycamore just over the fence will produce enough babies should we want to plant some
  8. spandit
    Never thought of holly as invasive in that way. What are you hoping to grow instead?
  9. spandit
    Stuart Foord in Heathfield has large poles in stock
  10. spandit
    Ours never showed up - trees are getting very close to the lines now - good job it doesn't supply our power, at least, I think it doesn't...
  11. spandit
    By the time you two have finished arguing it'll be fully grown! I've planted it now anyway so we'll see how it does. Considering my initial quote from the Woodland Trust was for 4,500 trees and I "only" planted 1,500, I think I've got space
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    For example? I'm not particularly worried about the firewood aspect, got plenty of other tree seedlings of superior species but not going to get any logs for many years. I read that goat willow doesn't propagate with rods like other willows so sprouting in the woodpile isn't a problem anyway - I'd rather have a log pile full of willow than no log pile at all
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    I will! Don't think it's the first one there anyway
  14. spandit
    What's wrong with goat willow? Any quick growing tree is good in my book
  15. spandit
    I'm inclined to say "willow" but if anyone else has an idea, I'd be very interested
  16. spandit
    People are too quick to use chemicals, in my opinion. What damage are the rabbits doing? Most of ours died over the winter but I'm sure the population will recover. Wish I was a morning person so I could get up early & shoot them
  17. spandit
    The wild cherries were the first to leaf and most of them are looking good still but this one has been attacked by something and is looking the worse for wear. Is it likely to die or will it just come back stronger next year?
  18. spandit
    It's just mulch - more to weigh the weed membrane down as it was being pushed up by creeping buttercup and swamping the willow rods. We've just planted a little plantation of about 60 sticks at close spacings to try and get some nice straight rods for construction purposes. I am planning on making a "tree bog" at some stage, which will use willow for filtration. Have had a bit of slug damage to the trees - each tube seems to be filled with them. I have seen signs of rabbits around the trees - piles of droppings on the membrane, for example, but the spirals and tubes are meant to protect against that. There has been some deer damage to some osier I planted elsewhere (at least, I presume it's deer) but hopefully I can grow so much of it, it won't be an issue if a bit gets eaten.
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    The willow sticks I planted are beginning to accelerate now, this is osier viminalis:
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    Had a closer look at a "dead" one today and as you say, the upper stem was dead but there are leaves sprouting from the base, you can just see them next to my finger. I have tried what I call "emergency mulching" - basically ripping any grass/weeds that were growing inside of around the tube and laying it down as a mat around the tree: I've marked the trees I'm worried about with little flags: I did notice, unfortunately, that one of my cherries, which were going great guns, has been eaten by something and is now struggling:
  21. spandit
    1st of May and had a good wander round with the dogs this evening. Plenty of little wild oaks coming up, don't know whether these are from the acorns I scattered last year: Also got some reasonable sized birch popping up too, one of the reasons I didn't plant any: Finally, the aspen is making an appearance, although most of them are weedier than this: Some of the hawthorn I planted in January and the hazel are sprouting out the top of the spirals already. Blackthorn is struggling, to be honest
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    If you can remind me and talk me through the process, I'll gladly oblige!
  23. spandit
    I will leave well alone. As far as I know the roots were fine and most of them have sprouted. I'll replace any genuinely dead ones with sweet chestnut, red oak, Chinese dogwood and black locust (although the latter is planned for the boundary)
  24. spandit
    Pretty, though. It's not on my property, though, so hopefully I can germinate some of the conkers
  25. spandit
    My ground is really damp - I was worried it would be too wet for some of the species - but they all seem to be thriving around the dead alder (plenty of live alder too). Perhaps it was a bad batch? I'll mark the tubes but wait for a few months before uprooting any

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