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Thanks both. Hope we'll see some new growth - it's looking very bare even with a few leaves! It's healthy (from what I can see) but does have a largish wound from the bough which fell down.

We had to have an oak tree heavily pollarded last August following a large bough falling down. The tree surgeons left several twiggy branches with leaf buds which are now coming out in leaf. However, no new shoots have grown out of the branch stumps since the tree was pollarded. How long does it typically take an oak tree to grow new shoots? Will they come through during the summer perhaps? Thanks

Sadly 4 out of 5 of the tree surgeons who came round recommended taking it down ? Quotes were £500-£800. Not as much as I thought they would be.

We'd love to keep it, but there's a huge crack all the way through, and we've been advised to take it down sadly. Quotes ranged from £500-£800.

Great, thank you will have a look at those options ?

Thank you. We had thought about a hedge, although there are already quite a few shrubs and small trees along the fence so it won't really be possible to plant a full hedge along it - we really just need something to fill a space of around 2 meters in width and 7 meters in height to give us a bit of privacy from our neighbours' back windows.

Hello, I posted last week about our oak tree which lost a large bough recently, thank you for the advice. We've had several tree surgeons out to look at it, and sadly 4 out of 5 advised us to cut it down. We'll be gutted to lose the tree, and it'll also mean that we'll lose the natural screening between us and several of our back neighbours' massive loft extensions. We'd like to get another tree or trees up in the space and were looking for some advice of what to get. It'd ideally be evergreen, but I've been advised not to go for Leylandii. Would Thuja be better? We would keep on top of the maintenance to stop it getting out of control. Or is there a good alternative? Ideally we'd be looking for something that's fairly tall already or grows relatively quickly so it's not too much of a shock when the oak goes... Thank you

Hah quite a range then!

One more question - if we did have to have the whole tree down, very roughly how much would we be looking at for felling and disposal? I would estimate that it's around 50ft tall, and there's reasonable access to the garden through a side gate, plus an access road directly behind the tree. We are based on the borders of south east London/Kent. Thank you

Yep - that's really clear thank you!

Thank you, that's really useful. We've got a tree surgeon coming along tonight to have a look. Hoping that we can avoid having to have the whole tree down.

Hi thank you for replying. What is it that's wrong with the branch structure and bark? Would it be wise to have some of the other branches taken down as a precaution?

Hello, We have a large (50ft ish) oak tree in our garden, and on Saturday, after the prolonged dry spell finally broke, a large 20ft (ish) bough came down. After doing a bit of research it appears that this could well have been sudden branch drop. I’m not sure if the tree will survive – there is a deep hole where the bough came away (see pictures attached - not very clear, sorry!) – any thoughts? Also, how common is it that more than one bough will come down? I’m really concerned that we’ll get more suddenly breaking off! Thank you