Nice trees to plant around the farm

[primmiemoo]

Big fan of silver birch here, beautiful trees with very distinctive bark.

Wuff!

 

[Pond digger]

hazel, and in years to come you get nice sticks too.

Nuts!

 

[primmiemoo]

I've a monkey puzzle that needs planting.
Bought on a whim at a stately pile shoppe.

Realised just how tall they grow on the way out of the Place - nul points for observation when admiring the gardens! - so haven't worked out a suitable spot for it.

Blackthorn for sloes is good. It's sad to see so many miles of blackthorn and hawthorn hedges flailed so tightly that they barely flower. Hawthorne haws make a good jelly to go with cold meats.

Guelder rose, and spindle are pretty.

 

[jpd]

a stack of hazel i cut last spring

 

[.fendt.]

Have about 50 odd Beech trees and two Scots Pine, which were planted around ten years, as bare root whips.

Has anyone had any experience of successfully lifting and replanting trees of this size and age? And if so, how would one go about it.

The trees are currently around 3.5mtrs to 4.5mtrs in height?

TIA.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Wuff!

............good material , good timing ... with little gems like that its maybe time to consider giving up the day job ?

Some Spindle was in with what i planted last winter all of it died in the dry. amoungst the survivors was Hornbeam which ive found in the past to be a tough survivor in that critical early year or 2 .................

 

[Lincs Lass]

View attachment 753246 View attachment 753244 View attachment 753240 Have about 50 odd Beech trees and two Scots Pine, which were planted around ten years, as bare root whips.

Has anyone had any experience of successfully lifting and replanting trees of this size and age? And if so, how would one go about it.

The trees are currently around 3.5mtrs to 4.5mtrs in height?

TIA.

Easiest way is a 360 with a big digging bucket turned round ,,dive under the tree and it comes out with plenty of root ball ,,just need the hole ready at the other end ready to slot it straight into

 

[Bury the Trash]

Easiest way is a 360 with a big digging bucket turned round ,,dive under the tree and it comes out with plenty of root ball ,,just need the hole ready at the other end ready to slot it straight into

i saw it done down the road young trees about that size and beech,was property developer wanting a quick show,i thought they wouldnt survive but most did cant rember if they watered them a lot,but anyway a poor summer would deff. help i guess.they wont get smothered by weed and grass like normal saplings do,but ir some not too strong compost around about will do no harm either

 

[Lincs Lass]

i saw it done down the road young trees about that size and beech,was property developer wanting a quick show,i thought they wouldnt survive but most did cant rember if they watered them a lot,but anyway a poor summer would deff. help i guess.

Wont hurt to water them in no matter how wet the ground is ,,trees and shrubs are in their dormant period now so they are not drawing any water ,get them out now with plenty of soil ,they will take

 

[Bury the Trash]

by watering... i meant at times through the first growing season, if a dry time particularly . cheap er borehole/ river/roof water is needed tho really.

 

[Lincs Lass]

by watering... i meant at times through the first growing season, if a dry time particularly . cheap water is needed tho really.

A few ibc tanks catching it of shed roofs or a 2 inch petrol pump dropped in a ditch to fill them

 

[Bury the Trash]

A few ibc tanks catching it of shed roofs or a 2 inch petrol pump dropped in a ditch to fill them

yeah ideal ....
......as long they are washed out after having shower gel in them or something

 

[Lincs Lass]

yeah ideal .....as long they are washed out after having shower gel in them or something

Thats no different to pouring bath water on the garden plants

 

[Bury the Trash]

Thats no different to pouring bath water on the garden plants

aye and they don't do as well on that as a nice shower....of rain

 

[.fendt.]

Thanks for the advice above. Will get the 3cx digger in over the weekend and see how I get on with that.

 

[bert]

They were around 5ft high and have grown exceptionally well [for a change] if you are planting them along a road always put the same species both sides it looks far better,put another section in with Horse Chesnut on one side which spoil the effect of an avenue.
Don't plant them to close,and always plant what grows well in your area Oak I find is to slow Ash Elm Chesnut no use now I would only plamt Sycamore or Lime for avenues.I always think that a lot of farm access roads would be transformed with an avenue of trees.

Old thread, we are planning on planting an avenue of small leaved lime, how wide apart are these? I’m thinking 18-20 metres
Thanks

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Old thread, we are planning on planting an avenue of small leaved lime, how wide apart are these? I’m thinking 18-20 metres
Thanks

Yes. 20 metres.
We replanted a lime avenue after the 1987 gale. In-between the original veterans which were planted in 1702 to celebrate Queen Anne’s ascension to the throne.
The veterans have all now gone and the ‘youngsters’ look fantastic!
SS

PS.
The 1990 gale blew a veteran onto one of the youngsters but with careful pruning no one but myself would see the impact damage. They are remarkably resilient.
These are large-leaf, Tilia Platyphyllos

 

[Princess Pooper]

Yes. 20 metres.
We replanted a lime avenue after the 1987 gale. In-between the original veterans which were planted in 1702 to celebrate Queen Anne’s ascension to the throne.
The veterans have all now gone and the ‘youngsters’ look fantastic!
SS

The smell of lime flowers in the damp air this year from European Lime has been amazing.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

The smell of lime flowers in the damp air this year has been amazing.

And standing underneath the canopy listening to them buzzing!
SS

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Dismantling one of the veterans
SS