Ash Dieback

Jaysus the ash dieback problem is very depressing. Once mighty ash trees are dying year by year. I am in Galway and I cant believe how many trees have it already.

Yeah every 2nd ash tree seems to have it now. Some trees have it very bad very quickly.

I hear there the survival rate can be as good as 70% but I am not convinced.

Storms will bring down a lot of dead branches and trees.

See the same here. Does cutting away a dying tree help or how is disease transferred?

Oh I presumed that, but does a dying one spread its disease to others?

I had a look through our Ash trees here just today and I can't see any sign of Ash Dieback. Now I didn't look that closely but still, all trees look very green. They were set by my grandfather a long time ago, so very old. We're in East Clare.

Removing all Ash trees here from roadside ditches here this year, tackled the most dangerous ones last year

Came across this last March on the way back from vets had been going the opposite direction only 15 minutes previous and no tree was down, stopped a van coming the opposite direction from ploughing into it, was able to get him waved down, landowners are 100% responsible for any accidents as a result of fallen trees from their land onto a public road....

Their is going to be alot of fatalities going forward unless the issue is mandated and funded by government to get these trees removed from roadside ditches

I have been looking around the farm and the effects are evident. Nearly every second tree is affected the killer on most of these is the ivy. Knocked a good few of the roadside ones this week and did a job on the ivy on the remainder.

Going to be a serious problem and folks need to be aware of it. Will be no shortage of firewood here

Their riddled with it

Balls. It was inevitable. There’s a massive one that’s been around longer than any of us where a relatives ashes are spread and it has same symptoms. At least there a hawthorn near by

Does anyone know if trees that are resistant should remain perfect or can they show some small damage, most ash trees around have leaf loss ( some more than others ) but would hate to cut down a tree that might turn out to be able to recover.