Can you please take a look at some photographs placed on our forums please
(below).
We are looking to find out a bit more about this type of tree and the damage
it can do.

http://www.gmails.co.uk/forums/showt...?p=246#post246

--
John
Building our caravanning web site and forums...
www.gmails.co.uk/forums

"La Puce" wrote in message

John & Lisa wrote:
Can you please take a look at some photographs placed on our forums
please
(below).
We are looking to find out a bit more about this type of tree and the
damage
it can do.
http://www.gmails.co.uk/forums/showt...?p=246#post246

It's a beautiful silver birch.

--------------------------

Ah, thanks for the answer on the tree type.
Would not agree on the beatiful bit though, at least not while it is
dropping shed fulls of debris all over my front drive and caravan :-)
--
John
Building our caravanning web site and forums...
www.gmails.co.uk/forums

John & Lisa wrote:
Can you please take a look at some photographs placed on our forums please
(below).
We are looking to find out a bit more about this type of tree and the damage
it can do.
http://www.gmails.co.uk/forums/showt...?p=246#post246

It's a beautiful silver birch.

John & Lisa wrote:
Ah, thanks for the answer on the tree type.
Would not agree on the beatiful bit though, at least not while it is
dropping shed fulls of debris all over my front drive and caravan :-)

But ... but ... caravaning is all about living with nature. Move the
caravan!!! ;o)

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:40:03 +0100, John & Lisa wrote
(in article ):

Can you please take a look at some photographs placed on our forums please
(below).
We are looking to find out a bit more about this type of tree and the damage
it can do.

http://www.gmails.co.uk/forums/showt...?p=246#post246



It looks like a mature silver birch and a thing of great beauty. I really do
hope you're not thinking of cutting it down instead of moving the caravan!

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
email address on web site

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 15:23:50 +0100, La Puce wrote
(in article . com):


John & Lisa wrote:
Ah, thanks for the answer on the tree type.
Would not agree on the beatiful bit though, at least not while it is
dropping shed fulls of debris all over my front drive and caravan :-)

But ... but ... caravaning is all about living with nature. Move the
caravan!!! ;o)


For once La Puce and I are in accord. Surely people wouldn't cut down a tree
because their vehicle gets dirty! Why have a garden? The tree has been
around longer than the caravan, I'm sure, gives shelter to birds, pleasure to
those that see it and oxygen to the world of the body, mind and spirit.
Surely you could either clean the van a little more often, clean it when you
want to use it only, or buy a covering tarpaulin of some sort, rather than
destroy a mature tree for a *caravan*!
And perhaps you could sweep the drive once or twice a week, instead of
cutting down a tree - maybe you could invest in one of those leaf blower
things or a Garden Vac, instead of cutting down a tree?!

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
email address on web site

Sacha Hubbard wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 15:23:50 +0100, La Puce wrote
(in article . com):


John & Lisa wrote:
Ah, thanks for the answer on the tree type.
Would not agree on the beatiful bit though, at least not while it is
dropping shed fulls of debris all over my front drive and caravan :-)

But ... but ... caravaning is all about living with nature. Move the
caravan!!! ;o)


For once La Puce and I are in accord. Surely people wouldn't cut down a tree
because their vehicle gets dirty! Why have a garden? The tree has been
around longer than the caravan, I'm sure, gives shelter to birds, pleasure to
those that see it and oxygen to the world of the body, mind and spirit.
Surely you could either clean the van a little more often, clean it when you
want to use it only, or buy a covering tarpaulin of some sort, rather than
destroy a mature tree for a *caravan*!
And perhaps you could sweep the drive once or twice a week, instead of
cutting down a tree - maybe you could invest in one of those leaf blower
things or a Garden Vac, instead of cutting down a tree?!
--
Sacha

I agree. It's a lovely tree, and it would be a terrible shame to cut
it down.

"Sacha Hubbard" wrote in message
al.net...
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:40:03 +0100, John & Lisa wrote
(in article ):

Can you please take a look at some photographs placed on our forums
please
(below).
We are looking to find out a bit more about this type of tree and the
damage
it can do.

http://www.gmails.co.uk/forums/showt...?p=246#post246



It looks like a mature silver birch and a thing of great beauty. I really
do
hope you're not thinking of cutting it down instead of moving the caravan!

I've had a similar problem with a flowering cherry which drops flowers and
other muck all over the caravan, but I'd much rather spend a little while
cleaning the van than cutting the tree down, that is not the right thing to
do.

As has been suggested in another post, get a cover for the van if cleaning
it is too much of a problem.

Alan

Alan Holmes wrote:
[...]
As has been suggested in another post, get a cover for the van if cleaning
it is too much of a problem.

On this subject, while I have no experience, I wonder if the OP doesn't
want the tarpaulin look: I could see why. So, if the caravan isn't used
too often, how about a neat sheet of black polythene cut to fit the
roof and stuck on with that "outdoor sellotape"? That would be
unobtrusive and protect the worst-affected area..

--
Mike.

"John & Lisa" wrote in message
...
Can you please take a look at some photographs placed on our forums please
(below).
We are looking to find out a bit more about this type of tree and the
damage
it can do.

http://www.gmails.co.uk/forums/showt...?p=246#post246


Since gardening is about taming nature, there is nothing wrong with cutting
it down. However, a Birch *is* a fantastic tree and responds well to
pollarding.
Chop it in the dead of winter at about 10 foot and remove all lower
branches.
It will produce a nice bushy topped tree in a couple of years. Enough time
to get rid of that dreadful caravan!

--
Mike W

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:42:15 +0100, VisionSet wrote
(in article ):


"John & Lisa" wrote in message
...
Can you please take a look at some photographs placed on our forums please
(below).
We are looking to find out a bit more about this type of tree and the
damage
it can do.

http://www.gmails.co.uk/forums/showt...?p=246#post246


Since gardening is about taming nature, there is nothing wrong with cutting
it down. However, a Birch *is* a fantastic tree and responds well to
pollarding.
Chop it in the dead of winter at about 10 foot and remove all lower
branches.
It will produce a nice bushy topped tree in a couple of years. Enough time
to get rid of that dreadful caravan!

--
Mike W



SOME gardens may be about taming nature but for many people - most urglers, I
would venture - it's about working WITH nature. Certainly that is what we
try to do here and it's what all the urglers I've met try to do. 'Taming'
nature is what has led to the loss of habitat for so many species, loss of
ponds, dewponds, field hedges and the knock-on effects. Cutting down trees
or knocking down swallows' nests (yes, that has been a subject on urg in the
past) is not what most of us either want to do, or encourage. I find it
utterly incredible that anyone would contemplate destroying a tree to keep
clean a vehicle that pollutes the atmosphere the tree enhances! Clean the
thing more often or cover it up is the obvious solution. Better still, do
not move to an area with trees or birds in it. It's like people who live in
towns and dream of moving to the countryside. When they do, they complain
that the farms smell of cows or pigs and that the lane is covered in pats or
that there's no street-lighting. Bah!
IMO, pollarded trees are an abortion when done for urban convenience.
Rant over!

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
email address on web site

"Sacha Hubbard" spouted in message
al.net...



Since gardening is about taming nature, there is nothing wrong with
cutting
it down. However, a Birch *is* a fantastic tree and responds well to
pollarding.
Chop it in the dead of winter at about 10 foot and remove all lower
branches.
It will produce a nice bushy topped tree in a couple of years. Enough
time
to get rid of that dreadful caravan!

--
Mike W



SOME gardens may be about taming nature but for many people - most
urglers, I would venture - it's about working WITH nature.

Working with / taming: a part of a continum which everyone occupies a
different part of.

Clean the
thing more often or cover it up is the obvious solution. Better still, do
not move to an area with trees or birds in it.

Mars?

It's like people who live in
towns and dream of moving to the countryside. When they do, they complain
that the farms smell of cows or pigs and that the lane is covered in pats
or
that there's no street-lighting. Bah!

I agree with you there.

IMO, pollarded trees are an abortion when done for urban convenience.
Rant over!


IMO pollarding is essential in any managed environment for the health of the
tree and the species that make use of it.

--
Mike W

"Sacha Hubbard" wrote in message
al.net...

it's about working WITH nature. Certainly that is what we
try to do here

Certainly?
Not healthy to come across as 'I am xyz newsgroup'.
In fact you really shouldn't spout shit like that.
URG is by the people for the people and you and the regulars are not URG.

--
Mike W

"VisionSet" wrote in message
...


"Sacha Hubbard" wrote in message
al.net...

it's about working WITH nature. Certainly that is what we
try to do here



Certainly?

Not healthy to come across as 'I am xyz newsgroup'.

So says "I am UseNet"

In fact you really shouldn't spout shit like that.

Whereas, by implication, you should.

URG is by the people for the people and you and the regulars
are not URG.

If it weren't for the regulars there'd be no NewsGroup.

Why don't you have a nice sit down in a darkened room, and have
a little think about that last sentence.

And then post your apology.



michael adams

....





--
Mike W

"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
...

As has been suggested in another post, get a cover for the van if cleaning
it is too much of a problem.

[silver birch]

Dried catkins are easily brushed off the top of a caravan in any case -
that's if the wind doesn't do the job first.


michael adams






Alan