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AJStrees

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  1. What was the reduction in aid of? If you don't mind me asking....
  2. Can't seem to see the photos....
  3. Handy looking work there!
  4. This on a small twig. Looks a little desiccated but marvelous.
  5. Which one is it?
  6. Nice. You could probably get some good photos of the bees in their natural environment. That would be quite special. Don't know about getting honey from a wild nest, but could be wrong. Back in the olden times honey hunters used to cut trees down and destroy the nests to get the honey. How things have changed.
  7. Very good, LOL that was a definite laugh out loud moment.....
  8. Back in the old days they would have put a few steel straps around it to keep it together. Not proposing you do that, but many an old tree has been saved with steel straps. Potentially many killed that way too in the end.
  9. is it honey bees that are living there? If not do you know what species it is? I have started creating some honey bee hives in the Orchard on the estate I manage. Great fun looking after bees and they are quite self sufficient. Quite a fascinating subject.
  10. How are your bees doing now? We have a very large old oak with a perfect size hole in it. A colony of bees have lived in the tree for years. Its a great thing to see. The more bees the better I say.
  11. Hi Ben, Thank you. I hadn't got to finding out what each of them were so your input is much appreciated. I am working on self teaching mycology and have bought a number of books recently. Do you have any books that are your main go to books for reference? I have Jordan encyclopedia, Phillips and the Collins fungi guide. All of which are good. Though they don't all say what the fungi does. I find it a fascinating subject that we don't yet know enough about. I normally take a few photos of each to show the gills and stipe, I will see if I have others of these. I try to put up as many as I can work out on the irecord website then you get expert advice on your upload which I find very useful. But welcome to the fungi hunting team on arbtalk, if I may be so bold in saying. I did see your post the other day.
  12. That’s a nice saw indeed. I recently got the larger 572. As has been said. Sugi bars are a lot better. I just retired our MS230 too.
  13. Fair point and I suppose realistically if it’s one tree and one job it’s no great odds. Besides the suckers will want cutting back yearly to keep them under control
  14. Nice bit of DOF there mate, what is that pear or cherry?
  15. I haven't seen it fruiting on Tilia myself in my area, but lots of Kretz on Tilia.
  16. An old post, but great tree.
  17. Good find I would say. Any more pics? Did you get to take a look inside?
  18. To be fair. It is best to cut them back in the dormant season otherwise you do promote further growth of the suckers. Very common with Common Lime The hybrid, Tilia x europaea. I have done it in both growing and dormant and when done in growing you promote further growth and get an even bigger mass of leaves. I would say do it as early as you can.
  19. Very good indeed. And yes very funny was laughing out loud. Probably due to the very wet winter and little sunshine over the last 6 months. The only thing that is just in flower are the Chanticleers in the car park and even then not much out yet. Buds are just about to pop but not quite there. Sorry to put a dampener on it. Will see if I can find something in flower.
  20. Great looking work! Want to get into some hedge laying myself just need time Nice weather by the looks too
  21. East Grinstead
  22. Small bracket on what looked to be an old willow of sorts. Ganoderma (I believe), but which one?
  23. A pair of greylags flew into our pond this morning and left fairly quickly. A quick iphone vid IMG_1120.MOV

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