You've done the right thing by adding organic matter this year already. I wouldn't neccessarily add any more until next year. Going back to your...
Shiney, the third one, I think, is Jew's Ear (Auricularia auricula-judae). Great pics.
Sounds like transplant damage then, mossym. Either that or you've had cats in your garden p1ssing on 'em. Nothing much you can do except keep them...
Thanks for the photos, pete, I've never been but keeping meaning to visit sometime.
Trees can often show symptoms of damage years after the event. If only a handful of trees are showing signs of ill health then it's unlikely a...
Hi, Passiflora, welcome to the site. Capel Manor has a great reputation and spills out many good students. Good luck with your course.
Hi mossym,Bare root trees are difficult trees to get right as the root system is so easy to damage. I suspect that the trees are suffering from...
Hi Ivory,Not sure if this is the thing that you're after: http://www.photo-canvas.com/I have used them in the past for creating canvases of...
Cheers, guys. I shall search for one and see what I can get. Many thanks.
Hi & welcome, weedy. 13 acres! Blimey... so much potential! :D
Leaning trees or trees that have gone over gradually often remain quite healthy. It's trees that, as Christine says, collapse overnight that have...
Aye, that's the one, cheers. Would you recommend them?
Hi and welcome, justinlowe. Great work showing there on those photos. :thumb:
OK - Captain Jon, You are right, there is nothing stopping anyone from pollarding any species of broadleaf tree. Whether it is the right thing to...
Yes, of course, mahonias! Get a few of them in for good measure too. I'd like to see the robbing chavs making off with those... Arf arf! :D
That'll be the worms... :lollol:
Can you not get spikey plants instead? Berberris, pyracantha, blackthorn, hawthorn, buckthorn? That'll teach the robbing gits? Or concrete in a...
So jealous... :( But pleased for you. Looks stonking. I love Portugal... even though I've only been once to Alvor! :thumb:So jealous... :o
Hi all,I saw a clematis 'Fireworks' recently in a customer's garden and loved the large, colourful flowers on it. I didn't have much time to...
Alder, beech, birch, cherry, softwoods such as pines and firs, generally any species with excurrent form do not do very well from pollarding....
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