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Early bud burst

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Oldtree wrote: »
    its laurel, divel to control.:eek:

    A case for a good old Sitka spruce canopy :D?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    robp wrote: »
    The Sycamore generally isn't even considered species in Britain. of course its useful sometimes for forestry but its one of the top weeds faced by those restoring natural Irish and British broadleaf. If the Irish landbridge with Europe lasted longer other new species probable would have got here long before sycamore like the suckering elms or lime trees.

    Scientists are still identifying highly specialised invertebrates in Ireland specific to certain native trees, even in 2012. I wouldn't underestimate the level of adaptation here.

    Since Oldtree here got me examining the forest floor of my dry brown earth woodland I notice a profuse regeneration of holly and ash and cherry; much fewer sycamore make it out of the ground ivy...but; those that do come into leaf months earlier than the 'natives', taking full advantage of the bare trees above. They are already (along with some beech) forming a second canopy while the 'natives' sit and wait to be totally shaded out!

    Don't really care as I like sycamore and beech but I hate :mad: that laurel.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Good man bill, didnt know you had it in you. laurel is poisionous to.

    Due to popular demand ie pressure from wild bill hickcock, ive gone into my garden with a camera and the attached are bursting their buds at the moment:


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    more:


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    and still more:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    And now just for you Bill, a pop quiz! What is the attached grown by my own fair hand???

    its a native by way of being born here and flowers every 2nd year....;)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    I reckon it's a flower :confused:

    Your alder is more advanced than mine are; and I don't have any elm, redwood or willow.

    I do however have some yews (no flush), larch (first flush), a single ginkgo biloba (no buds yet), Spanish chestnut (still dormant); Scots pines (ditto) and...lots of stuff - including, it seems, laurel :(

    Must get the camera working again :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    47 different trees is the target to beat bill, will do out a list just 4 yew :D
    sadly my ginko and a couple of others just didnt make it here, a bit to exposed I think. My new zealand tree fern clung on for years then up sticks the winter before last.

    It is the flowering head of a pineapple. Rooted the top off a bought pineapple and grew a bit year one, south facing window, then you get the flower out the top year two and by xmas there will be a half sized very sweet golden pineapple there. This is the the 4th year as I have cut the top off my own pineapple and rerooted it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Excluding ornamentals and varieties:

    Scots pine, LP, larch, ceder, cypress, Sp chestnut, H Chestnut, beech, birch, sycamore, common cherry, pink cherry, eucalyptus, yew, holly, ginkgo, poplar, leylandii (how could I forget that!), hazel, elder, alder, oak, ash, field maple, apple, peach, pear, plum...may be one or two I forgot, two maples I can't name.....total.... max 35?

    OK - I concede defeat :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    I have run out of appropiate space so you may yet get ahead.

    No lleylandii here as I have taken too many of them down and quite loath them. However I have a small zebrina hedge that is slow growing and has a wonderful pineapple smell when brushed against in the summer, yum yum. Its golden look is suppost to be seen at its best in the irish winter sun.

    Alder, italian alder, ash, blackthorn, oak, goat willow, 8 different apples, hawthorn, red hawthorn, prostrate yew, silver birch, jackmontii birch, downey birch, Zebrina, purple and green beech, dawyck beech, spindle, goat willow, kilmarnock willow, purple and yellow willow, other self seeded mayo willow from murrisk, 2 self seeded willow, 3 poplar, sweet chestnut, horse chestnut, bird cherry, plena cherry, cedrus deodar, korean fir, elm, mountain ash, bhutan pine, scots pine, holly, sycamore, red wood,

    and my favorite ornamental but not doing so well in a pot here;

    Acer palmatum var. dissectum 'Inaba-shidare'


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Ah - forgot mountain ash; got that - it struggles to survive in the wee woodland though. And apples x 8 - cheatin' :eek:

    I've varieties of maple, apple, plum - even poplars.

    So..I challenge you :mad: :

    How many self seeding trees have you got springing up?

    Here we have: - holly, ash, cherry, hazel, sycamore :rolleyes:, yew and...and.......and.............a conifer I cannot identify :eek:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Oldtree wrote: »
    I have run out of appropriate space so you may yet get ahead.

    Ditto.

    So now I'm moving into inappropriate space (according to the neighbours :D)


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Forgot evergreen oak and another poplar, and that is just in my garden (half acre minus house and driveway). Thats 49. I have a whole woodland (semi natural and ancient woodland) of self seeded. My garden was a flat wasteland when I arrived 11 years ago.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Here's a picture to gladden yer heart Oldtree! ;)

    IMG_0721-1.jpg

    (They make great seats for some arboreal contemplation)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Anyway, as this is supposed to be a buddy thread...the cherry is advancing quickly:

    IMG_0704-1.jpg


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    An a shot at redemption for you Oldtree; what reluctant bud is this?

    IMG_0699-1.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Wild Bill wrote: »
    Here's a picture to gladden yer heart Oldtree! ;)

    (They make great seats for some arboreal contemplation)

    Sticky butt!!!

    Interesting: Pine, 2 needles, bit bendy, lines on needles, but no idea of length of needles or hard soft, is it on my list buddy?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Oldtree wrote: »
    Sticky butt!!!

    Interesting: Pine, 2 needles, bit bendy, lines on needles, but no idea of length of needles or hard soft, is it on my list buddy?

    Yep - Scots pine! :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Now Oldtree, what the heck is this plant? :confused:

    (No trick question 'cos I've no idea)

    It's growing in a fairly light intensive part of the woodland.

    IMG_0705-001.jpg


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Some trees are easier to identify than others......:rolleyes:

    IMG_0717-001.jpg


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  • Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭mountainy man


    Wild Bill wrote: »
    Now Oldtree, what the heck is this plant? :confused:

    (No trick question 'cos I've no idea)

    It's growing in a fairly light intensive part of the woodland.

    IMG_0705-001.jpg

    I hope i'm not butting in here but, that is a cotoneaster but don't know what its name is, a garden escapee - seed dropped by bird and def not a native :D

    Spring sprung here quickly here in the last few days rowan in leaf and flower buds visable, alder bursting forth now and birch and hawthorn showing tiny green leaves


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    MM by all means butt in to this "bud love in" or "budfest" (whichever you prefer) welcome.:D

    You are right its a Cotoneaster simonsii, also a devil to control, its all over the cong area and by the lake probably spred so widely by the birds.

    Saw a white and pink cherry in full flower in Castlebar yday, but am still waiting for the flowers of my bird cherry and plena to appear.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Didn't realise that cotoneasters had naturalised! (Didn't have any planted)

    Budwise(r)! -

    IMG_0798-001.jpg

    Never before saw oak burst bud in March!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Meanwhile the plum tree is coming on strong; barring a late frost we should have a crop this year!

    IMG_0769-001.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Yes the plums are looking very good this year (father in law's) and I'm still waiting for my cherry to pop ;)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    On Wednesday I spotted what looked like "flags" covering the crown of a leafless poplar -

    IMG_0897-001.jpg

    The following morning some of them had fallen to the ground

    IMG_0892-001.jpg

    They are obviously some flower structure but I've never seen them on a poplar before; I thought poplars only spreading by cuttings?

    (The one in the top photo above was simply a twig stuck in the ground back in 1994)

    This morning after a breezy night the grass was covered in the things :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Most Poplars and Willows take readily from cuttings, even a low branch hitting the soil or low on the trunk in tall damp grass can cause roots to sprout.

    Aspen shoots are known to sprout from its own roots so they can spread underground:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms

    Female poplars do flower and set seed.

    The photos look like flowers (although I have never seen them) so it looks like your cutting was taken from a female plant.

    Keep an eye out for Ash flowers sprouting soon and for a while thereafter.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    A few more bud bursts:


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,100 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    And a few flowers just for you big bill... ;)


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Another acer from about three days back....

    IMG_0908-001.jpg

    Also see some ash bursting; saplings growing in deep shade.


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