I hope you are right about the mountain ash not being affected, I have three lovely young trees in my garden, the colour of the leaves has been glorious, burnished copper in the sunshine. There are many mountain ash trees growing in the woodlands around our area and they have looked lovely this autumn.
So where do I stand if one of the Ash trees in my garden / land gets infected? I have several Manchurian Ash trees which are well over 40ft and I'm concerned they might be chopped down against my will. The bottom portion of my garden has a right of way across it and I'm worried the council will just wade in with chain saws...
Yes, Ash Dieback is a notifiable disease - however I believe the current thinking is that mature trees do not need felling unless they become unsafe - it is saplings that are being destroyed. I understand that there is hope that some ash trees may prove to be resistant so if we don't fell mature trees we'll find out which are resistant and more can be propagated from them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I hope you are right about the mountain ash not being affected, I have three lovely young trees in my garden, the colour of the leaves has been glorious, burnished copper in the sunshine. There are many mountain ash trees growing in the woodlands around our area and they have looked lovely this autumn.
Mountain Ash isn't really an ash it's a sorbus, different family altogether, so it won't get ash die back.
Is ash die back notifiable does anyone know?
In the sticks near Peterborough
So where do I stand if one of the Ash trees in my garden / land gets infected? I have several Manchurian Ash trees which are well over 40ft and I'm concerned they might be chopped down against my will. The bottom portion of my garden has a right of way across it and I'm worried the council will just wade in with chain saws...
That is a worry and I'm not sure I can see the point of all the cutting down. It won't remove air blown fungal spores will it.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes, Ash Dieback is a notifiable disease - however I believe the current thinking is that mature trees do not need felling unless they become unsafe - it is saplings that are being destroyed. I understand that there is hope that some ash trees may prove to be resistant so if we don't fell mature trees we'll find out which are resistant and more can be propagated from them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sounds a bit 'thrashing around blindly' to me
In the sticks near Peterborough