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  1. Paul in the woods
    Pear rust, Gymnosporangium sabinae. If you google it you get pics that match yours. Here's the RHS advice, I've not seen it myself. Pear rust WWW.RHS.ORG.UK European pear rust is a fungal disease of pear trees, causing bright orange spots on the leaves. It also affects junipers...
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    I've had a look at some historical auction prices and I'd say only about £50, poss £100 depending on size and condition in an auction. I'm sure someone would pay more for it if it was in a shop.
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    Yep, she'll pick her own raspberries, blackberries, peas, tomatoes, apples etc; eat bird and animal droppings etc but I've not noticed her take any interest in fungi. Does yours? I had worried a little as I suspect there are liberty caps about the place. Last thing I want is a normally mad lab having a trip.
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    I still think it's a bolete of some sort. I note one of @David Humphries suggestions flushes pink on cutting. Do you have a photo of the underside and the outside of the stalk?
  5. Paul in the woods
    I've not heard of it being a problem to dogs either. Owning a walking dustbin myself (Labrador) who helps herself to various items from the garden I've never noticed her eat or have any interest in fungi.
  6. Paul in the woods
    Looks like meripilus giganteus.
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    I was going to say the same, a pic from underneath and ideally one cut through. They don't look the right colour or pattern on top for a rust gill.
  8. Paul in the woods
    The yellow 'shoots' look like the old flower/fruit stalks. Personally I'd not raise the soil level around an existing tree/shrub but I'd wait to hear from the more qualified people.
  9. Paul in the woods
    Well, as a potential customer, I've not heard anything. If I didn't read Arbtalk I'd have no idea about the Woodsure scheme. Being a remote property, i.e. not on mains gas, I often get stuff from the council offering grants for a new oil boiler (ones where someone pockets the grant and the boiler costs more to install than if I did it myself). But I've not had anything about Woodsure or efficient wood burners.
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    Worth a read as I learnt the id from one of David's posts a while back.
  11. Paul in the woods
    Anomorphic form of Fistulina hepatica?
  12. Paul in the woods
    Box tree caterpillar, Cydalima perspectalis. If you google for box tree caterpillar damage you'll find very similar looking damage. Box tree caterpillar WWW.RHS.ORG.UK <p>Box tree caterpillars feed within webbing and can completely defoliate box plants. It is a relatively new insect...
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    I would have thought they were fungus gnats.
  14. Paul in the woods
    To answer your question about alder, the ones I own can be prone to snapping limbs and even tops when they are alive*. Dead stems rot quickly and don't seem to last more than a few years. I leave them as where I am they don't cause any problems and provide very good habitat for beetle larvae and the woodpeckers etc that feed on them. I wouldn't want a large, dead tree next to my house though. *It is windy here, which doesn't help.
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    The problem doesn't sound that unusual though, perhaps you wouldn't be the best sort of person to do such a report then? Which goes back to the original question who would? And it doesn't necessarily mean the cutting back/down of the tree, but if it was me I would want confidence in the consultant so if they advised the tree is unlikely to cause problems I could accept that.
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    Why? Whilst I wouldn't put it as bluntly as AHPP, it seemed a perfectly reasonable request. Sounds like they have a concern with a neighbours tree and rather than blab about it on the 'net they would like a suitably qualified tree inspector to discuss their concerns with. As a customer myself I wouldn't have much of a clue what to look for, and when I've sought advice from the council it's been wrong. Thankfully JSN put up a helpful reply but I would still suggest that's a bit much for an average person to understand. Perhaps the arb industry should be more helpful to customers? (For example, I'd not heard of the Arb Association until I started posting here.)
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    They look like ash bark beetles, very common in ash bark. If you remove some of the bark of a log you should see galleries under the bark but not going into the wood. I wouldn't worry about them.
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    Did you get the £18k back from the council?
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    If you're confident you're legally right* why not build the WC and wait for enforcement action? On that note, can anyone tell me what council costs you would have to pay if you lost in court? *On that note, I'm not saying what you are doing is wrong but you are saying the WC is for visitors, does that not affect the planning at all?
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    Sounds typical council behaviour. I think your mistake was asking permission rather than just doing something (understandable with your neighbours). Do you really a compost loo? Isn't a hole and some 'modesty' fencing enough? Do you mean FOI request? I've found submitting a subject access request, under data protection laws, to get all the councils information on your case can be helpful as it can show up more info that you've been told.
  21. Paul in the woods
    How does that work then? As far as I know, if there's nothing stopping you from felling the tress (no TPO etc) then there's nothing stopping you from felling before submitting plans is there? After all it could well be cheaper than obtaining reports and then, perhaps, taking steps to protect the trees.
  22. Paul in the woods
    Just checked prices round here in Devon, they're selling a plant your own woodland (i.e. field) for 15k/acre. It was only about £10k/acre a couple of years ago. I paid less than £2k/acre for my woodland about 12 years ago. As for affording 100 acres, the idea would be to borrow the money and pay it off by selling off some lots from the 100 acres. If I'd have done that when I first thought of it I'd be a millionaire by now. 🤣 I suppose the question is what way are the prices going to go now?
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    When we bought our bit, just under 10 acres, we noticed some fields being sold that had a couple of acres attached. We contacted the vendor and came to an arrangement to buy the woodland plus some more. The type of people who wanted the fields would not have any use for the woodland so the vendor was happy with our offer. Worth scanning all the land adverts. I don't know why more people don't compete with the wood lotting companies. They often buy larger woods that are marketed to all, then split them up. They don't pay anywhere near the 18k / acre but they do have the capital to buy say 100 acres at a time.
  24. Paul in the woods
    Yep, the big plant looks like common Ivy, Hedra helix. The mature leaves are that ovalish shape, without lobes. See here: WWW.WOODLANDTRUST.ORG.UK
  25. Paul in the woods
    I honestly don't know much about bat surveys. I have seen reports in the same planning application with regards to dormice; one (from people objecting) saying they all over the place and will be affected by the development and one (from the developer) saying there's no signs. With bats I wonder if someone connected to the bat trust is more likely to say there's is a possibility of bats or bat routes whereas a person who earns their wage from developers would say different. I'm sure bats are more prevalent than one would conclude if you just looked at planning apps. Finally, on a more constructive note, have you looked at old planning apps in your area to see if there's any bat surveys - might give you a name for yours?

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