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  1. The avantgardener
    I have a corkscrew Hazel in my garden, this is its normal growth habit, nothing to worry about except Grey Squirrels eating the hazelnuts before you do.
  2. The avantgardener
    On an even gloomier note, a death has occurred felling dead Ash in Petworth last week, don’t know much detail as yet but I assume there will be some update from Euroforest/FC/FISA when they get their thumbs out of their arses, my thoughts are with the family.
  3. The avantgardener
    Would he f**k, surprised he didn’t have a grope whilst he was at it though, him being a Tory and all?
  4. The avantgardener
    One of the added benefits of Boris being leader, him wearing the old school tie and all that, he has the ability bring back lots of disheartened Tory voters who have voted for NF. The idea of Boris haemorrhaging The Bollocks Party vote and snubbing out the ‘Fag Butt’ Politician that is NF,for me, is a very silver lining.
  5. The avantgardener
    Nice and warm with just enough breeze for your maiden fight.
  6. The avantgardener
    Big ‘J’s site clearly needs to be clear felled in order to do the job safely, so maybe he can give us some answers on the coppice regeneration at a later date. I presently have a site that we coppiced 2 years ago that was heavily infected and clear felled, there are lots of stools showing very vigorous growth with no signs of the disease yet.
  7. The avantgardener
    Any of the trees that are resistant it would coppice and come back anyway wouldn’t they?
  8. The avantgardener
    The growth habit and colour of the bark would suggest Grey Poplar to me (Populus canescens). Does the bark alter to a diamond like pattern in the crown? The leaves are a little too blurred to make out though, they should have a undulating edge and have a downy underside which fades off.
  9. The avantgardener
    If you don’t know the do’s and dont’s with winching trees I strongly recommend you get some training, the NPTC Assessment schedules are free to download from the City and Guilds website.
  10. The avantgardener
    You can become a LANTRA Instructor any time you want, you just have to prove you are good enough by jumping through the hoops, and paying for each hoop of course. Assessing is different depending on your location, there might be a shortage of climbing unit assessors in say, Bristol, but loads of ground based, so you have to find an assessment centre who needs more assessors to cover the units being booked. Most of the guys I work with have ideas to go down this route, half of them can’t even do the cuts properly, the others know next to nothing about Forestry and most of them don’t know a fraction of what they need to know about legislation/law etc. I have three years left on the mortgage, speak okay Spanish and have my eye on 10 hectares of woodland just outside Bilbao.
  11. The avantgardener
    All Poplar Species are a doddle to clone and propagate, that would be my starting point if I had a stock with an extremely good provenance.
  12. The avantgardener
    With those growth rate figures I would be surprised if it was Aspen. I think it would be more likely to be one of the Black Poplar hybrids, I have seen them develop at extraordinary rates both here and in France in the right growing conditions. Post some pics of the bark/leaf on your next visit. To plant, final thin and clear fell a site within your own lifetime would be quite something.
  13. The avantgardener
    We have been doing lots of dead Ash removal for The Woodland Trust (East Sussex)mostly high risk/public access and roadside stuff. The advice from the FC was if the tree is showing symptoms it is f***ed, get it down, resilience is virtually nil, if the tree shows no signs, leave it in the stand. We took out 550+ in one stand in September last year, now that they are better spaced they are easier to inspect/monitor, there are some obvious spaces in the canopy where there are dead crowns, others are flushing beautifully.
  14. The avantgardener
    We do import and have imported pots/plants with soil for centuries, I can’t see this changing. I replanted ‘Bait’ trees (Acers) on the site if an Asian Longhorn infestation at Paddock Wood in Kent a couple of years back. The whole site had been clear felled, chipped and burned previously, the source was identified as the pallets that had contained Indian Sandstone slabs from the landscaping wholesaler next door, no soil involved, How many UK based cutters do you know who practice Biosecurity to prevent movement of infected material from town to town, nil I bet?
  15. The avantgardener
    Vast amounts of trees/shrubs/flowers are brought in every day to supply nurseries all over the UK, much of this from Holland, it’s been like this for decades as it is usually much cheaper, what pathogens do you think wouldn’t be present in the UK now if we didn’t import plants/fruit material?
  16. The avantgardener
    It depends where you are in the Country, Specimen Trees in Cheshire are fantastic, I have used them to supply avenues of very large Tilia cordata in the past. You could import them direct from Holland also.
  17. The avantgardener
    You would think the French would be masters at it.
  18. The avantgardener
    Buy a couple of acres of standing sweet chestnut and get a couple of us boys over to cut it all into product for you, might deliver a decent return?
  19. The avantgardener
    I recently met a guy who specialises in cleft sweet chestnut pails, all produced by hand in Kent, the vast majority is shipped to France, I couldn’t believe it. He told me that the French guy sells a lot of it on in Germany at three times the price to be used in the skiing resorts.
  20. The avantgardener
    Neither blind or stupid, I just don’t see my country as a shithole or run by the Germans, we haven’t been successfully invaded since 1066 due to these brave souls.
  21. The avantgardener
    Shit hole of a country dictated by the Germans, that not the way I see my country, do you live in a town called Krautsville Shithole?
  22. The avantgardener
    Well that has gained them absolutely f**k all apart from they now looking from their balcony at a tree with a unbalanced crown, I can’t see why they bothered? It isn’t even over the house, I would still contact the TO about TPO and raise your concerns about the neighbour pushing for more off, I suspect it will happen.
  23. The avantgardener
    I would contact the TO immediately, I would be surprised if they didn’t agree that the tree was of amenity value, ask the neighbour to hold off until it’s dealt with as your getting some advice yourself, check the credentials of the person doing the work on your tree also, make sure they are legit, you could end up with a real dodgy looking mess otherwise.
  24. The avantgardener
    Great times.
  25. The avantgardener
    Did you used to go to the Rave in a Cave at Delamere?

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