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Janet Baraclough writes:
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| years, but my question is how large can it grow in ten years,
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| 30 to 40 ft tall, easily.
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| and are the
| roots invasive over this period of time
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| Yes.. Cutting the top does nothing to limit the root growth, and ash
| trees grow a very wide root spread.

As she says, though cutting the top every year does slow its root
growth. But even an annually coppiced ash in a rockery 10' from a
house is a pest.

Ashes are not rare, and should be planted only where there is space
for them. LOTS of it. They make first-class coppicing trees, for
producing firewood, poles etc. - but that is a commercial activity.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.