Hope you like the attached, if you like trees.

[Pilatus]

 

[Bury the Trash]

Nice one @Pilatus
and a learned chap i used to do a bit of work for used to say " you plant a tree for someone else " He planted several broadleaves on his estate in his later years .

 

[Forkdriver]

A friend from Germany who was a forester was a great proponent of the system used in Switzerland where trees and pastures were co existing to provide a system that provided an integrated income stream with self seeding trees replacing those removed and bringing minerals up from the lower soils to improve the grazing. Farmers are also foresters.

 

[Pilatus]

Wow thanks for all your feed back.
I came across it today when I viewed the, “Order of Service Sheet”, for the late Major Tom Wills of Miserden estate who passed away in March. Major Tom loved his woodland , I don’t know of any other estate owner who took such an interest in his woodland , he actually marked the trees himself,that needed thinning so as to create the lovely woodland that were his life’s work.
In his later years it was very sad for him to see the devastation of Ash Die Back take it toll on the woods he had managed over his life time.

 

[Married 2 The Mob]

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under who's shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Mandela.

 

[Digger73]

I am in the process of planning and planting 3 acres of a field with trees just because its my field and I can,. Have my Dad's ashes, and an Uncles ashes waiting to go into it as well as other family members expressing an interest in being planted so to speak. I might try to carve this onto something to place at the entrance. It equally applies to the family and loved ones who might end up residing there and what they have given to me

 

[Bury the Trash]

actually got a hornbeam or 2 left over still to plant over the weekend tbh field corners . been in anbit of water and theres green leaves on them now, i think they will be alright will keep them watered for a month or so if it dries up.

on the other side of it i do cut them down as well , all part of the great cycle i , and currently a bit worried for a 35 yr old maple that i Pollarded for a customer a couple of months ago waiting for an epicormic bud or 2 but nothing yet
she'll be right hopefully.
very easy to grow is a HB i would recommend them, if you want a reliable result in various soil types...

 

[zero]

I am in the process of planning and planting 3 acres of a field with trees just because its my field and I can,. Have my Dad's ashes, and an Uncles ashes waiting to go into it as well as other family members expressing an interest in being planted so to speak. I might try to carve this onto something to place at the entrance. It equally applies to the family and loved ones who might end up residing there and what they have given to me

Plant a wide variety of tree species as nobody knows how the climate will change in future.

 

[Digger73]

I have asked friends and family to give me a list of there five favourite trees and will build up a plan from there. The whole idea started last year with thinking of planting 50 trees for my 50th birthday

 

[David.]

Just think how nice it would be now if you'd planted 25 on your 25th birthday.
They say the best time to plant a tree is yesterday.
Fair play to you, it sounds lovely.

 

[Digger73]

To be fair 25 at 25 would have been better, but I'm already a very conflicted fenman who isn't used to seeing trees in the landscape and is worried about spoiling uninterrupted skies and sunsets

 

[Digger73]

 

[chickens and wheat]

When I was 16 we made a new planting of approx 2000 trees mostly on an old railway bridge embankment and the approaching old rail line land. 40 years later it's an impressive wood . Probably still too close together despite regular thinning.

Oak ash larch with conifers around the perimeter.

We made another planting the next year and planted in any field corners and waste land areas. It was a crown estates farm at the time, they supplied the trees and guards we did the planting.

The Yorkshire post actually came and photographed us planting, Such tree planting was quite the novelty back then.

We probably over planted , and definitely planted to close to farm tracks etc , has needed quite a lot of serious pruning / removal as trees grow and farm machines get bigger. Keeps me in logs I guess


The first tree planted were free from fisons fertilizer , they aren't huge due to a horse eating the tops years ago

 

[Bury the Trash]

In 1993 there was an offer of 25 free ones from the County Council for people with the initiative somewhere to plant them, that was my first deciduous planting ,
although previous to that i had put in a few runs of conifers for wind break /screening, funny how times changes attitude i wouldn't even consider them now.
but then the trouble is now its all gone silly and has been hijacked by dafties or those with other not so good motives for wall to wall planting and in some inappropriate places as we see. saws will soon sort them one day agin i guess and all part of the big circle ,
They certainly add another dimension to a place. from 2d to 3 ?

 

[CPF]

Today we was in blue mountains nsw
If you like looking at trees there are a few in here
2,817.024 acres

 

[Lazy Sod]

I remember, back in 1973, the saying was: Plant a tree in '73 and plant some more in '74.

 

[chickens and wheat]

My dad put conifers in on windward side of garden 50 years ago. I guess they should have been felled 29 years ago and replaced . Massive and unstable now, too big and close to property for amateur felling. One fell and claimed my garden wall already.

 

[chickens and wheat]

 

[Bury the Trash]

can you get hold of a big winch ? or put a couple of ropes on him and big tractors , be fine to drop him then.take a bit time and thought on cutting.

theres always risk even for non amatures ,me i just like a challenge and an adrenaline rush