Trees

That was March, this is now

Well looks like it was a good idea to check my tree out at night, found 2 slugs, as I have a hedgehog round sometimes, thought I would try a beer trap, so I hung some cups in the branches, ended up with a slug and some woodlice, so I hope I have found the culprits, will keep the beer traps going...

Johnnie, old age (could be over 60?) or disease....could be anything and we can only guess reallyRemove it asap

Well it does look very brown and dead! But the bits underneath are still green and I'm ever the optimist - so I have re-planted now as per @misterQ 's advice, with some sand and a bit of grit, so fingers crossed and I'll update if it works ...

Aha that explains a lot then, many of the Polish have a natural affinity with nature and just seem to know what is right when it comes to gardening. My father and his brothers were of Lithuanian parents and all of them were green fingered not so much for flowers but for veg, they all seemed to...

Welcome to Gardener's Corner.Your tree looks pretty nice to me. From the look of the bark it is Birch Jacquemontii having the lovely white bark. It will look lovely in the winter when the branches are bare. I would leave it alone but if you desperately want to reduce the tree's size please don't...

Maybe have a look at the thread I posted a few weeks ago @Carllennon "No good deed goes unpunished". The massive tree in question now has huge amounts of dead ivy in it. Hopefully over the next winter or 2 all of it will fall out of the tree. Certainly the tree is in all its glory atm and...

I suspect that the recommendation came about as Nasturtiums attract blackfly so the thinking goes that they'll lure nasties away from the trees. I'm with NigelJ and Verdun, though..a potted tree needs plenty of water and nutrients, which the Nasturtiums will be using up.

Pete the one where the main shoots was took from, in the middle at the top there was new leaves hiding under the dead ones but in this one in the centre it looked hollow but it only as this one shooting.Looking at them in reality to pictures they look healthy, so as you've advised i'll leave...

Nattie75, you can't move that conifer; far, far too big. If you cut it back it won't grow back.I would take it out or cut it down to leave a 6' to 9' bare trunk and use it to plant a clematis montanna on it.

Hi Terri...the crimson sentry what you have still comes under crimson king when I was looking on the net...some times they're in the same genetic family

Hi KFF...this isn't mentioned though when reading about the plant only about leaf changes in colour... for mentioning that another piece of information learnt never having one myself

While I am posting in the trees section.I realised I can get some thoughts of another tree related issue.I have an old apple tree in the back garden. It is provides a good crop when it is a good year. It is at least 40 years old.In the last few years, it seemed to get weaker and one one side...

My thinking too Shiney....good advice too about the TPO. The copper beech, with skilled pruning, has to be retained

Thanks!

Thanks for all the great advice. Certainly lots of think about.I took a few hours last weekend and dug a hole around each stump. I'd say another 2-3 feet below ground level. My reasoning was that it would make work easy for a stump grinder. Would this be a fair assumption? So rather...

For another possibility, look into peaches. You won't find most people with a peach tree, but the right ones are perfectly happy in Britain.Sadly I wasn't in the place I planted mine long enough to see it get to full sized (which was due to be about 6ft). In spring it produced amazing magenta...

Thanks all for your input. Have no intention or for that matter hope! of removing the Ivy atm or ever . All that has been done is to saw through the stems at the base of the tree. It's about 80/90 ft high and so it will be a case of the stems dying off and then falling over time I expect. I...

@Marley Farley I'm sure it isn't and it's just my cynical nature.