Ash Tree Fungus

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9763000/9763400.stm

 

Just heard that on BBC Radio 4 News a short while ago - was that what Hydrogen's trees had?

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/ash-tree-sentenced-to-death.43021/

 

Sounds like it could have been Scrunge.

 

this was on our local news last night. confirmed cases around Norwich, which is about 15 miles from us.

since its a fungus, cant they spray funguside on the trees?

 

Looks like its being taken very seriously.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20107186

 

Another gift from the Dutch? Like Dutch Elm disease, Lily beetles and Vine weevils?
Why are we buying Ash trees from abroad anyway? I could supply them with a few thousand out of my garden alone.

 

it's from Europe, yeh. Seems stupid importing trees from infected countries

 

Imports banned from Monday, I think I heard on the news tonight. Too little, too late, as usual.

 

This is because, I suspect, most of the people that set the rules have never actually seen a tree, or the countryside, except in passing when someone else is looking after it all.

 

Here is some information i have found on the web including a video of symptoms of the condition...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ash-diebac...-public-advice-to-protect-trees-05112012.html

It is spreading quiet rapidly now across the country and the total is going up daily and there are millions of trees that could be lost forever,just like the Elm trees

Palustris,I heard several years back that a lot of the Cannas that come to this country form Holland are also infected with a virus which they know about but still they send thousands of infected plants over to us here...

 

Two places at the moment found in Wales , the river bank is lined with these trees at the bottom of my garden and all along the river such a shame.

 

There was a company on Tales from the Wildwood last week that make things exclusively from Ash Wood. Bet they're not too happy at the moment.

 

That's unfortunate, but it doesn't make good business sense to put all your eggs in one basket.

Years ago I worked for a firm that did all the marketing support and IT for other companies. One customer specialised in diving holidays in Egypt. Very specific. Then a few British tourists were murder while on holiday in Egypt. Our client went bust, and as they were one of our biggest customers (more than 50% of our work), we nearly went under too.

 

OK, So its pretty much on the cards that most of the Ash Trees are doomed, so how about plans for a mass harvest of the existing trees so that we have a supply of Ash Timber.

Then they will be replaced by seedlings, a lot will come up where an existing tree is felled, these could then fight it out for resistance and the problem could be over a lot quicker than waiting for each tree to succumb & then cutting down a diseased tree thats only fit for firewood.

 

In my local park Ash trees seem to have been targeted in recent years any way.
Any sign of fungus and they have got the chop on safety grounds, I guess, Ash is not the most durable timber anyway.
We now have most horse chestnuts dyeing, oaks are threatened and now ash, the end is nigh.