Paul in the woods

That was my understanding, although I was worried about keeping hens near yew as they grind their food and assumed the yew seeds could be ingested. I've now discovered some birds seem to be able to cope with the toxins in the seed.

Thanks for the reply, I was genuinely interested as it's useful to know actual risks. Sorry to hear about your lamb. Round here they tend to throw themselves into the paths of traffic. (Curious to know what breed the lamb is/was).

Have you dealt with many cases of yew poisoning in animals? Curious to know what's most affected. We didn't have any bother with our dustbin, I mean Labrador, when we lived in a garden with a large yew. I assume they're more a risk to goats/horses?

The article is a bit one sided. The law hasn't banned wet firewood, someone could still buy some lovely kiln dried wood and keep it somewhere wet. You can also cut your own of course. I think you really must make clear than most cheap pin based moisture meters will measure on a dry basis so anything under 25% dry basis is fine to burn. It's about time Woodsure made this far clearer.

It's a strange world, I look forward to fungi appearing... Anyway I would have thought the first step would be to identify the fungi to see if they are likely to be living on the roots or something else.

It's not the bark you need to worry about but the brash, I've not heard of any other movement restrictions within England. From the Government site: https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/fthr/pest-and-disease-resources/ash-dieback-hymenoscyphus-fraxineus/chalara-manual-2-managing-ash-trees-and-woodland-including-logs-and-firewood/ If a felling licence is required it would be worth checking with their woodland officer.

It's hard to tell from the photos, they look a bit washed out by the rain. I'd suggest the common deceiver to start with, Laccaria laccata, which is a mycorrhizal fungi and not harmful. A good clear picture of the gills and stalk would help.

Picture would help. 😉

Why's it baffling? Plenty of people grow trees in pots for all sorts of reasons. Someone renting for example. As Gary says, they will need more TLC but many people cope. A large heavy pot will help but there are various ways to anchor pots. I'd try and find a specialist nursery that expects people to grow the tree in a large container and ask their advice.

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Sorry if this is obvious but a decent pair of thick, long and good fitting work socks greatly helps if you do wear the chainsaw wellingtons and can't get narrow pair. I only use mine now if I'm going to be working in water and some good socks makes them bearable.

I get this on my Android phone, it's a google play notification. A quick, erm, google, suggests this isn't a scam. I can't find out if this is a specific law or if it's just google trying to be seen to stop underage people accessing certain services. As has been said, just put in something sensible but not your real birthday. (I'm like the queen, I have my real birthday and my official one!).

I tend to prefer catching mackerel with a light spinning rod, line and reel. Much prefer that than pulling out several in one go on a beach rod. Probably my favourite fish to eat, and yes gutted at the beach and also neck snapped when landed to kill and bleed them out. Not been for a year or two and should really get out again early one morning. Also caught a few decent bass around here but lost track of the landing rules these days. Something like you can't take one on a rod but you can hoover tons of them up if you're a trawler.

I don't know about Tom Cats but private isn't the nicest smelling flower. I've been warned it can taint honey but I've not had any problems with my bees and it flowers at a useful time in the year. (although late this year).

I'd follow the advice of one of the hedging suppliers. Such as https://www.best4hedging.co.uk/privet-hedging-ligustrum-c67 I think you've left it too long, you normally cut them down when planting and then trim as they grow so they produce lots of low down branches. But cutting them lower than the final height would seem the way to go. Edit to add, my main experience with private is coppicing them with a chainsaw as they've grown into small trees!

I very much doubt the fungi is honey fungus, it's too small and doesn't look right. It's more likely something like Leotia lubrica, Jellybaby fungus which is living in the material in the compost. The compost probably contains wood fibre and it also suggests, as others have said, the compost may be a bit too wet.

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I got a bit a bit side tracked when I read it was related to cashews. I'd love to grow a cashew tree and get it to fruit.

Very nice, do you have any plans for it?

It reminds me of something, but then I've been around the tropical houses at Kew and Wisley. A quick search shows up something like Schinus terebinthifolia which seems to be regarded as a bit of an invasive weed in the US. Most pictures show green stems but some show red.

Who is 'they'? Will we see Woodsure 'police' driving about?

I think it's just as bad down here. The FC are not interested in processing small felling licences so I have to work with my 5 cubic meter exemptions and hope I don't get any ill informed people complain. (I have photos and notes so I should be fine) I have of course tried to discus the boundary with the council but they only respond if it suits them. You can also get a different answer depending on how you ask the question and if you dare prove to them they are wrong they just tell you to go to the ombudsman. There's the added problem that much of the highway work is contracted out so the management don't have a clue if they've done the work even though they will assure you it would have been done properly. Now I'll just sort the trees and hope. I expect there's quite a few people in a similar situation.

I'm not trying to create any rules, just trying to understand the situation as I own quite a few road side trees, some of which I've had taken down. I've not heard about the possibility of verges extending into what I would have regarded as private property. Things seem to be going the other way, highways departments reducing the amount of hedge and tree cutting they do. I wonder how many people would question the ownership if they were quoting removal?

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I can see it's not a simple case. Just looking at the info on my council's highway dept they make it clear the verge would stop at the base of the trees/hedge. So is that info likely to be misleading? Tree maintenance - Roads and transport WWW.DEVON.GOV.UK A tree becomes a hazard when it has a structural defect that may cause the tree, or a portion of the tree, to fall and injure... I assume the only way to confirm if the trees are on the verge would be to liaise with the council highways dept as well as examining the deeds? In this case it wouldn't surprise me if the owner of the trees asked the council to trim them and they said it wasn't their responsibility. It would be nice to hear any outcome. With regard to your comments on boundary trees and verge trees, what's the difference? The trees in this case were part of a hedge, not what I would regard as individual trees planted on what I would regard as a verge (which I accept is not the legal definition of verge).