Only four Beech trees? Lucky you. So far this year we have brushed up 5 big compost bags of beech nuts. They canot go in the green waste bin as there is gravel from the drive mixed in with them, so getting rid means a drive to the Recycling yard. Even pigs won't eat gravel!
Wood pigeons love them. We have 10 beeches bordering one part of the garden and have had flocks of over 50 feeding on them regularly through the winter.
That's good to know @steephill, although it doesn't seem to stop them making a nuisance of themselves in my garden. Apart from Dave of course, the resident lonely one. We have loads of beech round here - it's part of the reason the road I live in is called what it is
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The good news is beech trees do not set mast every year, so you will get some years off, last year was a mast year here for us, this year I don't think we got a single one from our huge beech tree in the lawn.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We have loads of beech round here - it's part of the reason the road I live in is called what it is
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.