On 03/02/17 14:10, Martin Brown wrote:

Squirrels plant plenty of beech masts in my lawns.

Somewhat OT, but my neighbour's 15 metre beech drops thousands of masts
on the flower border and lawn every year. We also have squirrels, but in
the four years we've been here I don't remember seeing a single beech
seedling. My ash, however, is unfortunately a very different matter...

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Jeff