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Ash dieback: Deadly tree fungus spreading 'more quickly'

Hampshire_HogHampshire_Hog Posts: 1,089
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47483197

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  • jamesharcourtjamesharcourt Posts: 465
    No sign of it round my way. 

    I'm plagued by these trees ... a huge one overlooks our garden and drops seed everywhere, I always have to pull them up, they root easily and grow like wildfire.

    Not that I want them to die out mind, I just want them to be in places other than my own garden!
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We have several of these.  2 older ones were taken down by a tree surgeon because they were close to the house and every time there was a storm huge branches broke off.   Two more over by the pond are OK and have just been tidied up and there are two more younger ones that have clearly seeded and grown while the previous owners were too busy divorcing to garden.   Keeping an eye on them.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    Yes they do grow like weeds and I have noticed quite a few suffering with die back around the Northampton area, although the ones affected seem to be in the countryside rather than Urban areas. Like all trees they are beautiful in the right environment and a 40ft ash tree grown against a neighbours fence in a small garden is not a nice thing especially for the neighbour.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I thought the last cold winter followed by the dry summer would knock it back a bit but it looks like nothing is going to stop this one :/  The landscape is looking pretty patchy after all the larch was felled but at least that was plantations that are being replaced with mixed forestry now. We seem to be losing more and more mature beech trees up this way too.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • yorkshireroseyorkshirerose Posts: 574
    I live in North Yorkshire and Ash dieback is definitely making an impact on the hedgerows and wooded areas around here.
    A gardener's work is never at an end  - (John Evelyn 1620-1706)
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I've seen fewer new deaths over the couple of years


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Got a hold up here in Perthshire.
    Sad to see.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    If you want seed I have hundreds of the things. They grow anywhere on anything and if you miss them in between bedding plants too late they wont be pulled up. They are a pain.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Lots of dieback here in our park.  Saplings seem most susceptible, but mature trees are now also showing symptoms.  But it's great to know that some ash trees seem resistant, if not immune, so maybe the ash population will recover in years to come.

    @wild edges - were your larch trees felled for timber, or were they lost to Phytophthora ramorum?  If so, that could be what's killing the mature beech.  The same has happened here, sadly.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    With two Ash trees 90 foot tall one either side of the road we have enough seed to probably populate a county.
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