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Big fan of silver birch here, beautiful trees with very distinctive bark.
Wuff!
Big fan of silver birch here, beautiful trees with very distinctive bark.
Nuts!hazel, and in years to come you get nice sticks too.
Wuff!
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 intoView 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.
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 eitherEasiest 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
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 takei 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.
A few ibc tanks catching it of shed roofs or a 2 inch petrol pump dropped in a ditch to fill themby watering... i meant at times through the first growing season, if a dry time particularly . cheap water is needed tho really.
yeah ideal ....A few ibc tanks catching it of shed roofs or a 2 inch petrol pump dropped in a ditch to fill them
Thats no different to pouring bath water on the garden plantsyeah ideal .....as long they are washed out after having shower gel in them or something
aye and they don't do as well on that as a nice shower....of rainThats no different to pouring bath water on the garden plants
Old thread, we are planning on planting an avenue of small leaved lime, how wide apart are these? I’m thinking 18-20 metresThey 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.
Yes. 20 metres.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
The smell of lime flowers in the damp air this year from European Lime has been amazing.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
And standing underneath the canopy listening to them buzzing!The smell of lime flowers in the damp air this year has been amazing.