Ash Tree Fungus

If you've got the Horse Chestnut Fungal thinger, clear all the leaves from under the tree so it doesn't overwinter.

We need something to take out Leylandii now

 

Maybe its a conspiracy. For timber, conifers are much more commercially viable, and for biofuel, its wheat in the UK. If all the broad leaf trees were systematically eradicated by natural causes, then there'd be no resistance met when people tried to grow more commercially viable crops instead.

 

I just tend to think its a bit like the foot and mouth out break, KILL EVERYTHING IN SIGHT.
Surely these diseases have been around for years, maybe not here but in other countries, and life has gone on, maybe in a different form but things are changing all the time thanks to the globalism, created by us.
I tend to think nature will come up with the answer if given time, we just want an answer tomorrow, nature does not work like that.

 

Cupressus Aphid is doing that (around here are least, not around your way?)

Brown patches appear on the hedges, grow over a couple of years, and then after 3 or 4 years the complete hedge is dead. Result

 

I have just read that the island as yet has no outbreak of the Ash fungus and our government has put an immediate ban on their import and Ash related products. Apparently Ash makes up a quarter of all our hedgerows.

Pete. The island managed to keep out the foot and mouth outbreak in 2001 lets hope we can do the same for the Ash.

 

So only forks, spades, etc. with plastic handles now allowed?

I wouldn't miss that awful black ash furniture though.