Ancient and other veteran trees: further guidance on management

Oldtree

I went looking for a copy of the above 2013 book by David Lonsdale and found it difficult to get one. I eventually tracked one down at Treesource and am waiting for it to arrive (to add to the collection ). In the meantime, The Ancient Tree Forum (UK) has a very interesting website and has made all its publications (books and leaflets) available for free download. The above book is available as a pdf.

Forum:
http://www.ancienttreeforum.co.uk/

Books page (under the heading of Resources):
http://www.ancienttreeforum.co.uk/resources/ancient-trees-books-shop/

Treesource:
http://www.treesource.co.uk/

Oldtree

Sadly Treesourse have let me know the book is out of print, I guess their website is'nt up to date. I did manage to track down a good second hand copy on ABEBooks, one of only 2 I came across after much searching yesterday.

Oldtree

Book arrived today , in great condition from Clevedon Community Bookshop Via ABEBooks:

http://www.clevedoncommunitybookshop.coop/

monkeynuz

Very interesting, thanks for that.

As an aside, at our last house we had a veteran oak >500 yrs which our conservation officer from the council got very excited about as it was the first veteran tree he had seen that had been pollarded in recent enough times to be done again, so he gave us permission to go ahead with the work which involved doing it in stages, 1/3rd per year, the grow back was spectacular from a tree with a circumference of more than twelve feet.

Oldtree

500+ no wonder the Co got excited, I would You dont happen to have before, during and after pictures of the work? it would be very interesting to see as I havnt worked on a tree of that age.

emo72

Hello, good thread this. Is there an on line resource of ancient trees in the republic of Ireland?

monkeynuz

Oldtree wrote: »

500+ no wonder the Co got excited, I would You dont happen to have before, during and after pictures of the work? it would be very interesting to see as I havnt worked on a tree of that age.

Hi oldtree,

No I'm afraid I don't have any pics of the tree, unfortunately we sort of took it for granted which is disgraceful I know.

It was done in three stages over 3-4 years.

The base of the pollarded section was like a dancefloor according to the tree surgeon he reckoned at least four men could have stood up there together.

I am a terrible one for not taking photographs of changes or alterations to things, I can never see the point at the time until it's too late!

Oldtree

emo72 wrote: »

Hello, good thread this. Is there an on line resource of ancient trees in the republic of Ireland?

Not a complete list afaik. The Tree Council has records but not online, loads of them collected by Aubrey Fennell:

http://treecouncil.ie/

Their book "Champion Trees" provides details of 1,200 of the 10,000 recorded trees:

http://treecouncil.ie/project/champion-trees-selection-irelands-great-trees/

"Heritage Trees of Ireland" by Aubrey Fennell is a georgous book to look into:

http://treecouncil.ie/project/heritage-trees-ireland/

Snippets of the lists can be picked up here and there, like Donegal CoCo:

http://www.donegalcoco.ie/services/heritage/leftsidebarheritage/naturalheritage/treesofireland/

couple of Irish trees here:

http://www.treeregister.org/pdf/Champion%20Trees%20native%20species%20May%202011.pdf

Ginko in NUIG:

http://eirishtrees.ie/nuigquadtrees/?page_id=85

County Development plans can have trees with TPO's on them listed, like this from Louth (a pdf):

http://www.louthcoco.ie/en/publications/corporate-plans/chapter-2-conservation-and-heritage

Are you interested in a particular area or species?