On Sun, 11 May 2014 20:18:20 +0100, Vir Campestris wrote:

Ours are both out, but I think the ash is ahead.

Won't be for long though. Chalara. If it shows symptoms again (we only
bought the house last autumn) I think it'll have to go.

How big an Ash tree? Older ones seem able to fight and win. It's
young trees that it does for. IMHO the disease is going to sweep the
country no matter what we do so leaving old established trees that
may well survive and become immune(?) means that the country won't
become devoid of Ash trees.

Looked at some of our Ashes the other day, still very much tightly
closed buds.

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Cheers
Dave.