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Call me sensitive but I feel awful, I had a eucalyptus i bought
originally as a shrub and it grew 10ft tall, it was shading my
neighbour's garden so we decided to cut it down as the leaves were too
high for me to reach and use anyway. So we cut it down between us, I
loved the way the truck was formed so I decided to cut it down and use
the trunk as a bird table, I have just been up the garden and she is
bleeding, no I mean it she is really bleeding! red sticky "blood" is
oozing out and its running down the stump, now I feel terrible, she is
up there bleeding to death and I don't know what to do Im thinking
maybe if I stop it, she can start to sprout out of the sides and I can
keep her low and manageable. can anyone help. pleeease.

--
tizfreespirit

Not known as Gum Trees for nothing!
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea


Oh Charlie, how dreadful. I've had a look in my RHS Pruning and Training
guide and there's nothing at all on sap loss. In your place, I think I
would dry it as much as possible and use a wound paint. I'm not
underestimating how much it's bleeding, but I think the only thing you can
do is stauch the flow, either completely or just slow it down. If it slows
down, it may start to coagulate.

Good luck with it.
Spider



Tiss not me with the tree, I suspect all you can do having cut it at the
wrong time is wait and hope
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea