"K" wrote in message
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Broadback writes
K wrote:
First ensure that they do not have a preservation order on them, it may
prove expensive for you if there is. As previously written they sprout
like mad from their stumps. I have a number taken down (electricity board
insisted), as they could not access with a root grinder they made fairly
deep cuts vertically down the stumps then poured a killer (don't know
what) over the stumps. that has killed them and not affected the land
around.

Has anyone ever put a preservation order on an elder? a) they don't live
long b) they don't grow large
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Kay

I doubt it - not only are your points valid, they're very common.

We've taken them down, there was a forest of them in our garden once. I'm
still cutting down seedlings.

There is the point that we're just outside a conservation area, if we were
across the street we'd have to have permission to cut any tree down.

Mary