On Dec 23, 9:30*pm, Emery Davis wrote:
Judith in France wrote:
On Dec 23, 2:14 pm, "Angela" wrote:
"graham" wrote in message

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| "Judith in France" wrote in message
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| I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have
| about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their
| branches. *They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will
| I need to prune, severely in Spring?
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| If you do prune do NOT do it in spring but early summer when the sap has
| stopped running! *Same for maples.
| Graham
| (in W. Canada where the temperature has been dropping to -30C at night
over
| the last 10 days or so)

I recently had a crown reduction done on my silver birch, the tree sugeon
wouldn't even consider doing it untill after the leaves had mostly fallen as
he siad they bleed so badly you really can only prune in the autumn

Isn't that slightly different from what another poster said? *I
thought that perhaps, after reading the posts above, that they were
similar to plum which can only be pruned when the sap is rising?

Hi Judith,

Don't prune in spring, the bleeding will be serious. *Autumn or winter
is the time. *But I think yours are best left alone, they do spring back
quite a bit.

Cheers for Christmas,

-E

Hi Emrys, the broken branches won't spring back though. At lunch
yesterday, one of the guests, a chap who lives in Spain is a tree
doctor and his wife a landscape gardener, I had a lovely time talking
to them. He said, cut off the branch whilst the tree is dormant and
leave the rest to spring back into shape.

Happy Christmas back to you and yours. p.s. Emrys, totally off topic,
but I posed a question re tax in a French group, can you point me to
one as you live in France too?

Judith