Ash Dieback

Danzy

biddyearley wrote: »

It's ash dieback. Across Europe 2% of the ash are surviving. Cut it out and be done with it.

As a warning to people with ash trees, as the tree dies it will dry out and rapidly become brittle and begin to break up in strong winds. Best remove all while living.

I noticed last summer after a brief storm the roads cross country were littered with what was unusual branchlets and bits of twigs, I had a look and it was all ash. Checked with colleagues who noticed the same thing. The tree is on the way out unfortunately.

With Ash, there is probably more genetic and sub species diversity on my farm in Cork than in all of Europe combined.

That's a mix of there being several thousand, know ones here, God only knows how many unstudied and the fact that Ash in the continent is nearly all just a few variants, with most being one.

magicbastarder

you have a link for that? because i'm sceptical.

rn

As regards last tree I showed, it's two large trunks from an older trunk where the original old tree fell in the 80's. Both should come down alright as it's not a healthy ash. Job to be done before autumn, incase it is Ash die back. I guess the smaller branches and leaves should be collected and burned on location.

Delighted to report rest of my Ash trees are looking pretty healthy after the last 2 weeks of warmer weather.