On 21 Dec, 18:19, "'Mike'" wrote:
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."Sheila" wrote in message

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I watched the programme on BBC 2 which showed the cork oaks after harvet.
How come they
don't die after the bark has been stripped off? If I took the bark off a
normal tree all
the way round, it would die.

Kath

'The Stories of George the Hamster'
Translated by Lee H and Kathleen Smith
ISBN - 978-0-9546989-3-5
Available fromwww.arlev.clara.net/george.htm
and from both on line and High Street Bookshops

hmm, would this work with our back gardens neighbours Leylandii??

bit obvious that one :-((
try copper nails ;-))

or spilling battery acid around the roots, accidentally