Oak seedling 15m away from house in field

Hi
My niegbour has decided to plant a irish oak in feild beside him instead of his garden , he can plant it 15 meters away from house is this enough? He's in his 40s will it be big in his life time

 

They aren't particularly fast growing. Maybe 50 cms a yr. It takes about 40 yrs for them to be considered "mature", though they can live to over 150 yrs, and some make it to 300+. A really mature one might have a canopy stretching 30m, but this would be roughly circular, so 15m in any direction from the trunk. There is a huge oak just outside my boundary fence, there for generations before my house was built. I'd say the canopy has a diameter of about 18m, but it does get a trim every 7 yrs or so.

 

Does he own the field?

 

Yeah I put him off planting it on hedge border that I think 10m from house

 

Our English oak tree is about 15 ft from our house and it is about 30 ft high. We get it trimmed about every 6 years. We had another at the back, but had it removed as it was too near and shading. It had about 70 tree rings. Fingers crossed we have not seen any damage caused and we have been here 40 years.

At the bottom of our back garden the golf course has many 70 ft high oaks, which are about 90 ft from the back of our house. They are very old, but are a bit gloomy to look at and drop their leaves in our garden. Useless for compost.

I don't think you need to worry - they are soon chopped down!

 

If only the leaves did make good compost, I could start a small business venture!

 

If he doesn't own the field, as @steephill is asking, then he can't plant anything in it.
It would be a good idea to inform him of that.
We have loads of mature trees round here which are a lot nearer to houses than 10 or 15 metres, including Scots pines, oaks, horse chestnuts, maples and beech. They aren't a problem, apart from when you do household insurance.

 

Without permission it would be trespass to go into the field.

 

We have oaks coming up everywhere - squirrels.

 

Main problem with trees near buildings is, I believe, during drought periods, the trees suck the moisture out under the foundations and on certain soil can cause subsidence.

Not had a decent drought in years so you don't hear as much about it these days apart from insurance companies using it as a get out clause.

 

Yeah it's his field

 

So why doesn't he put it further away then?

 

How far it will be from you garden border and your house? I definitely wouldn't want branches to stretch to my land, I would regularly chop back to border line. If it's too close to the border, tree would be growing lopsided this way.

 

I found an oak seedling in my garden and I planted it in a pot. It looks nice in the pot, and doesn't grow very much.
I have another one down the bottom of the garden, by the wall, but I cut it back every year. It's about 6 ft tall and about 2 ft wide because I keep cutting it back all the time.