Does this tree need support?

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• joe.shimmin Posts: 214

  October 2018

  I will take the thing out after tea!

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  October 2018

  Don't get indigestion! 

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• joe.shimmin Posts: 214

  October 2018

  I’m thinking of hiring a garden chipper to chip up all of the leylandii branches and then use the chippings as a mulch for the new Portuguese laurel. Is this a good idea or will the chippings be too acidic etc?
  Thanks

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• Buttercupdays Posts: 4,546

  October 2018

  @PaulN - Don't diss Sycamores! It's the pathetic size of many gardens that is the problem, not the tree. My rural garden is large and home to many trees, including several sycamores. This link says it all:

  https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/612447/thinking-of-adding-wildlife-benefit-to-your-garden-with-trees-or-shrubs

  I might add, they give me lots of lovely leafmould too!
  

  
  

  
  

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,445

  October 2018

  Field Maple is a far nicer Acer and native as well

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  October 2018

  I found this old thread @joe.shimmin. I believe they are pretty acidic, but @chicky is still on the forum, so may be able to help.

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• joe.shimmin Posts: 214

  October 2018

  Thanks AnniD!

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

  October 2018 edited October 2018

  I know pine needles are acidic when still green changing to neutral pH once composted but not sure if that also applies to the cupressus family.  To be safe, you could consider making a compost heap.  Or mix the chippings 50/50 with ericaceous compost and grow blueberries in containers - they'd thrive on that mix.
  

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• joe.shimmin Posts: 214

  October 2018

  Interesting Bob, thanks for the advice, Joe

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