30+ years established ivy killing trees

Hi,

I am look for some advice about a couple of trees that appear to be dying on our land. We have only noticed this recently as the trees are in an inaccessible corner of the land.

The trees have almost no leaves now in August, so I guessing that the trees have been suffocated by the ivy which has been growing on it for over 30 years… possibly much longer.




Those thick creepers coming up the trunk are ivy.



A few months ago we cut the ivy growing up the tree. Some of the ivy creepers were between 2 and 3 inches in diameter. We cut off a section of approx. 2 feet of ivy from all the ivy creepers.

Does this tree look like it is beyond saving, or could it recover and grow leaves again?

Is there anything else we can do to help this tree to recover?

The ground is limestone… so possibly does not have a lot of soil around the roots. But the tree must be quite old and must have been well established before it became suffocated.

Any advice appreciated.


Thanks in advance,
Dave

 

Hi Dave

No pictures !

 

Hi 'weedaway'
added the photos in my post. I don't know why they were removed.

Maybe there is some special way to add photos?

I tried to include URLs to the photos but receive this error message

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Maybe someone could 'like' my profile so I can do this?

Can someone advise how I can post a photo?

Best Wishes,
Dave

 

Maybe this will work with the photos?

 

There you are Dave, 2 likes from me, I'm sure there will be more.

We can see the pictures now.

Pictures can be loaded up by clicking onto 'Upload a File', the next blue button from the 'Post Reply' button.

It gets easer as you go along, from my experience this is one of the best and easiest forums to navigate I have ever posted on.

Trish

 

Thanks a lot Trish! Great you can see the photos now and thanks for the 'likes'.

I am hoping that one of the readers will be able to offer advice on how to save this tree ;-)

Best Wishes,
Dave

 

Hi Dave and welcome to the forum.

I know Ivy strangles and can kill trees as do many climbers ... here it is Morning Glory! I would think you need to eradicate the Ivy entirely. I would also pollard the tree to see if anything is alive in there. However, I am no expert on this and someone will come along to advise you.

 

@Dave Brocklebank What type of tree are they?
I think with trees that sort of size that may come down and cause damage I would get professional advice from a tree surgeon.

 

I'm just wondering if the trees are shutting down for autumn.
Not sure where you are but up till now its been a dry, and at times, hot summer, some trees around here are not looking great and are losing leaves early.

Were they growing well back in june?

 

I agree with that... This forum is great to navigate.
Plus there's good knowledge on here.. I learn a lot from others questions and the replies.
As Pete says the trees will be hard to judge until the spring.
If they do produce buds then like Victoria says I'd get all that ivy off.
A tree surgeon would be good but they don't come cheap.

 

You might try some strong professional Glyphosate weed killer, I put some of this on my ivy and its all gone, so has everything else I put it on.