Any Tree Surgeons Here? I need advice
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Hi Tree Surgeons
Please can you help. I have a large 60ft tall Eucalyptus in the garden and all of its leaves have gone brown and died, I assume its damage from the cold winter. Until today I thought that the tree was dead but it is shooting clumps of leaves and short stems from the trunk and the branches.
What do I need to do to help it recover? Should I remove the shoots from the trunk? if I don't I think I will end up with a 60ft tall bush which will look odd.
The new leaves are the juvenile type, and there are no leaves on the ends of the branches.
Cheers
Nick
Please can you help. I have a large 60ft tall Eucalyptus in the garden and all of its leaves have gone brown and died, I assume its damage from the cold winter. Until today I thought that the tree was dead but it is shooting clumps of leaves and short stems from the trunk and the branches.
What do I need to do to help it recover? Should I remove the shoots from the trunk? if I don't I think I will end up with a 60ft tall bush which will look odd.
The new leaves are the juvenile type, and there are no leaves on the ends of the branches.
Cheers
Nick
Looks like it's been killed by the cold winter, Eucs are very susceptable to this. The new growth is a last effort to survive. If you want to retain the tree then then as said above get it pollarded a couple of feet bellow the last shoots. Every thing above that has had it.
Personally I would remove the tree and replant as once pollarded if it does survive then it will grow bloody quick as it has a big root system feeding not alot of growth and will need repollarding every year.
Personally I would remove the tree and replant as once pollarded if it does survive then it will grow bloody quick as it has a big root system feeding not alot of growth and will need repollarding every year.
Thanks, I was hoping to save it. Taking it out worries me as the loss of the tree could result in heave of my foundations, regrettably it is closer to the house than I would have planted it.
So what sort of cost do you think I am looking at to take down a tall thin tree? Access with a small cherry picker will probably be alright . There is an overhead power line close by.
I t6hink taking it down will be beyond my capabilities.
So what sort of cost do you think I am looking at to take down a tall thin tree? Access with a small cherry picker will probably be alright . There is an overhead power line close by.
I t6hink taking it down will be beyond my capabilities.
Heave will only occour if you are on clay soil.
As far as cost goes it is all dependant on many factors. A MEWP wouldn't be needed so no worries about that. From the pics it looks like about 1/2 aday at the most with taking every thing away. Price will depend on who you get to do it, local wood tick may do it just for the wood, but he won't be insured and will probably trash your garden, have some near death experiances and take far longer than a professional tree surgeon.
My advice would be to get 3 quotes from reputable local companies who can prove proof of public liability and employers liablity insurances. Where abouts in the country are you I may be able to recommend a company.
Edited for Friday night spelling
As far as cost goes it is all dependant on many factors. A MEWP wouldn't be needed so no worries about that. From the pics it looks like about 1/2 aday at the most with taking every thing away. Price will depend on who you get to do it, local wood tick may do it just for the wood, but he won't be insured and will probably trash your garden, have some near death experiances and take far longer than a professional tree surgeon.
My advice would be to get 3 quotes from reputable local companies who can prove proof of public liability and employers liablity insurances. Where abouts in the country are you I may be able to recommend a company.
Edited for Friday night spelling
Edited by treehack on Friday 6th May 21:37
treehack said:
Heave will only occour if you are on clay soil.
As far as cost goes it is all dependant on many factors. A MEWP wouldn't be needed so no worries about that. From the pics it looks like about 1/2 aday at the most with taking every thing away. Price will depend on who you get to do it, local wood tick may do it just for the wood, but he won't be insured and will probably trash your garden, have some near death experiances and take far longer than a professional tree surgeon.
My advice would be to get 3 quotes from reputable local companies who can prove proof of public liability and employers liablity insurances. Where abouts in the country are you I may be able to recommend a company.
Edited for Friday night spelling
Thanks for that, I need a proper job doing so will use a tree surgeon. I am at the Worcestershire end of the Cotswolds near Cheltenham and Evesham.As far as cost goes it is all dependant on many factors. A MEWP wouldn't be needed so no worries about that. From the pics it looks like about 1/2 aday at the most with taking every thing away. Price will depend on who you get to do it, local wood tick may do it just for the wood, but he won't be insured and will probably trash your garden, have some near death experiances and take far longer than a professional tree surgeon.
My advice would be to get 3 quotes from reputable local companies who can prove proof of public liability and employers liablity insurances. Where abouts in the country are you I may be able to recommend a company.
Edited for Friday night spelling
Edited by treehack on Friday 6th May 21:37
I used to use Roy Finch for tree jobs at work in the Midlands, he isn't too far away at Malvern
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