AJStrees

Not a great excuse but I understand. ?

Where's ya greens?????

Very true, it does work to help the mycorrhizal fungi and with additions of seaweed and worm casts getting that in the soil certainly makes things happier. Don't know about the PH point but have seen it produce good results on sick trees and establishing trees and shrubs. Cost is definitely an issue as it seems to be a fairly costly product. More from the view of helping the environment, if you off balance the soil with fertilizers it can cause all sorts of trouble especially the wash off from big areas of land into ponds, etc.. I believe there are many studies on this online for one to peruse as regards fertilisers.

Good idea to do a mulch circle or square out to the drip line of the tree which is where most of the tree roots will be, remove the turf and put in a good mix of well rotted wood chip and compost mix and yes biochar is pretty much the best thing you can give the tree and helps with the root/fungi system within the rootzone. The tree roots will mostly be near the surface and they need to be able to breath and take in enough nutrients from what you feed it. In this state it will need lots of help. Water thoroughly. What sort of soil is underneath?

Great spotted or lesser spotted? Fantastic catch there.

I would imagine they need a lot more water if they were not well watered initially then they may not be taking up much of the water and with the size of those plants I would imagine they need a lot of water. Do they have any pipe system to get the water right into the root system? From the soil there, it looks very rich and could also be part of the problem. Laurel do well in good clay soil and are generally very hardy. Depending on whether or not they were transplants is also an important point. From the looks of it they got a shock. And a large transplant takes quite a bit to get over the shock. I transplanted some 7-8 foot laurels into heavy clay soil and watered them for a number of weeks. Some of them took fine, a few dropped a lot of their leaves but are now recovering. In hindsight it would of been better to do my transplanting on a gradient approach so as to lessen the shock to the plants. Unfortunately I didn't have that option as the builders had moved in and were about to dig up all of the trees for scrap.

Was thinking about getting aluminium wedges, have steel and husky plastic. How do the aluminium ones do with a good beating?

Good job, good bit of engineering.

Interesting, not seen it myself. However looking through the books it does seem to be closest to oak mazegill or otherwise blushing bracket potentially.

Looks a little like old Tilia wood. We had a big one down in the recent storms. Lime tree perhaps?

Seen some starlings nesting today. Very active little numbers thems be. Fantastic plumage. after cutting up some wood in the summer sun, I went for a quick walk in the woods, I heard a couple of ducks giving it some and discovered a buzzard was swoopin round the pond. Agitating the ducks. Poor buggers. Anyway on the way I got a sudden strong smell of wild honey and hit me with a spanner, there was a wild honey bees nest in a rotting tree, what a wonderful sight. this evening the owls are out in full swing with a lot of toowit-toowoos going on. ps: when you read this, you have to read it with a Cornish accent, it sounds a lot better like that.

Nicely done! Something else to strive for. Good news!

Lovely lookin bit of work there. Nice looking gate too. Is it softwood by the looks? Shame the hardwood ones are pretty up there on lasting a long time. But your work looks grand.

Well yes. I would imagine when one has something, he is always striving for something better. I am unfortunately in the position of not having a log splitter at the mo, so anything would be a huge improvement. LOL! ?

Lovely job. Nice tipping trailer mate.

Love the splitter on the multione. One day.......

Lovely looking dawg. What bar and chain were you using on that?

Well trained that wisteria

Anemone

Yew, but the cones I would say are from a different tree.

Great shot. Nice tree.