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Saving trees via cutting off the damaged top
I've had great luck with Japanese Maples but failed with Dog Woods and others. Seems the idea of coppicing is mainly for firewood but I wonder in the practice can extend to other ornamental trees. Any novel success stories ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing http://www.google.com/search?client=...picing&ie=UTF- 8&oe=UTF-8 Bill -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/ |
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Saving trees via cutting off the damaged top
Bill who putters wrote in
: I've had great luck with Japanese Maples but failed with Dog Woods and others. Seems the idea of coppicing is mainly for firewood but I wonder in the practice can extend to other ornamental trees. Any novel success stories ? i just cut down a Carpathian walnut this spring, because it had borers & attracts bag worms... just not doing well & ugly to boot. it sent up a couple sprouts from the stump so i chose the strogest one & removed the others. not sure if it will hold up over winter, but we'll see. the previous owners cut all the blighted sections off an American chestnut by the garage about 20 years ago & that tree is beautiful now & bears nuts (not as many as it would if there were more chestnuts nearby). one thing people who wax nostalgic about chestnuts never seem to mention is they really smell horrible when in bloom, like dead animal... i have some little chestnuts coming along from seed, so hopefully they'll have blight resistance. i guess both of those fall into your 'firewood' catagory though. lee |
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sent up a couple sprouts from the stump so i chose the strogest one & removed the others. not sure if it will hold up over winter, but we'll see. the previous owners cut all the blighted sections off an American chestnut by the garage about 20 years ago & that tree is beautiful now & bears nuts (not as many as it would if there were more chestnuts nearby).
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