Posted on 27/10/2020 13:49
In all my years I have never seen as many acorns as this year. Have planted 100 or so in a small nursery and hopefully ready as seedlings if not next spring the year after. Whilst the do gooders still fly to talking shops around the world we can do our little bit by planting a few acorns ourselves. Then we will have done collectively more than the talkers have.
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Posted on 19/11/2020 10:06 by TakethedogalongYou plant things with care in the wild. Rogue rhododendrons were a huge problem in Snowdonia years ago.😱
Posted on 19/11/2020 17:30 by FishermanLikewise the Ash Die back came in when the do gooders wanted to spend their grant monies and brought the plants abroad.
Posted on 19/11/2020 17:40
Not so much do gooders as buying abroad cheaper and good profits, without checks before being imported or border checks over here,
As has been happening for many years on numerous invasive and infected species,that have also arrived in other products
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Posted on 20/11/2020 09:27 by FishermanIt was some woodland group, spent their grant monies in a hurry to meet some so called deadline. The trees proved diseased. Result utter disaster.
Posted on 20/11/2020 09:27 by FishermanIt was some woodland group, spent their grant monies in a hurry to meet some so called deadline. The trees proved diseased. Result utter disaster.
Posted on 20/11/2020 11:29
I agree fully Fish👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Why the trees that are natural to this country can’t be sourced in this country is beyond me, it ain’t hard to grow any U.K. trees nor is it expensive. It’s just greed👍🏻. The importer should pick up the tab for having lax systems.
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Posted on 20/11/2020 11:29 by Rocky 2 bucketsI agree fully Fish👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Why the trees that are natural to this country can’t be sourced in this country is beyond me, it ain’t hard to grow any U.K. trees nor is it expensive. It’s just greed👍🏻. The importer should pick up the tab for having lax systems.
Posted on 30/11/2020 21:46 by nelliethehookerI saw on Countryfile yesterday that Dame Judy Dench had raised an oak from an acorn this year. I think she said that she got it to germinate by putting it in a vase of water for a week or so.
Fisherman
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