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Hello to everyone, new here and would like to request some guidance from the
experts! For the past few years we've had what we've seemed to identify as an Ash growing from seed in our garden. Actually there are about three growing but we've managed to keep the others under control by chopping them down early enough. Every year we have cut it down because we've never known what it is. Now we have let it grow - and boy does it grow quickly! - we are wondering whether it was the right thing to do. I am aware how large it grows and that it can last a couple of hundred years, but my question is how large can it grow in ten years, and are the roots invasive over this period of time (including the roots of the trees we cut down)? It is growing around ten feet away from our house in - believe it or not - a man-made rockery. Seems fine and healthy at the moment, but we wouldn't want it to cause any structural damage to both ours and our neighbour's house. TIA Kathy |
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blueyondercustomer wrote: Hello to everyone, new here and would like to request some guidance from the experts! For the past few years we've had what we've seemed to identify as an Ash growing from seed in our garden. Actually there are about three growing but we've managed to keep the others under control by chopping them down early enough. Every year we have cut it down because we've never known what it is. Now we have let it grow - and boy does it grow quickly! - we are wondering whether it was the right thing to do. I am aware how large it grows and that it can last a couple of hundred years, but my question is how large can it grow in ten years, and are the roots invasive over this period of time (including the roots of the trees we cut down)? It is growing around ten feet away from our house in - believe it or not - a man-made rockery. Seems fine and healthy at the moment, but we wouldn't want it to cause any structural damage to both ours and our neighbour's house. Cutting the top back won't stop the roots growing at all. I'm surprised it hasn't completely ruined your rockery! It's easy to get unnecessarily worried about trees, especially with modern foundations, but I think ten feet is far too close to the house for comfort: for ash, I'd say the safe distance is probably at least thirty feet from house or especially drains. At http://www.gardenlaw.co.uk/trees.html there's a table in which the safe distance is given as 21m -- over sixty feet. This would normally be an exaggeration, but they say it's a figure agreed by some insurers, so you may think it worth using as a guide in case something nasty happens to your neighbour's property and they or their insurers try to blame you. I'd remove the tree. -- Mike. |
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 16:58:45 +0100, Mike Lyle wrote
(in article . com): blueyondercustomer wrote: Hello to everyone, new here and would like to request some guidance from the experts! For the past few years we've had what we've seemed to identify as an Ash growing from seed in our garden. Actually there are about three growing but we've managed to keep the others under control by chopping them down early enough. Every year we have cut it down because we've never known what it is. Now we have let it grow - and boy does it grow quickly! - we are wondering whether it was the right thing to do. snip Cutting the top back won't stop the roots growing at all. I'm surprised it hasn't completely ruined your rockery! It's easy to get unnecessarily worried about trees, especially with modern foundations, but I think ten feet is far too close to the house for comfortsnip .. I'd remove the tree. I agree totally with this. I've had to do the same thing under similar circumstances but my ash tree was growing on top of a lowish wall about ten feet from my kitchen window. The roots were below the wall and heading straight for the house. Unhappily, I think you have no choice. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon email address on web site |
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"Sacha Hubbard" wrote in message al.net... Cutting the top back won't stop the roots growing at all. I'm surprised it hasn't completely ruined your rockery! It's easy to get unnecessarily worried about trees, especially with modern foundations, but I think ten feet is far too close to the house for comfortsnip . I'd remove the tree. I agree totally with this. I've had to do the same thing under similar circumstances but my ash tree was growing on top of a lowish wall about ten feet from my kitchen window. The roots were below the wall and heading straight for the house. Unhappily, I think you have no choice. What, not working with nature then? -- Mike W |
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In article , Janet Baraclough writes: | The message . com | from "Mike Lyle" contains these words: | | years, but my question is how large can it grow in ten years, | | 30 to 40 ft tall, easily. | | and are the | roots invasive over this period of time | | Yes.. Cutting the top does nothing to limit the root growth, and ash | trees grow a very wide root spread. As she says, though cutting the top every year does slow its root growth. But even an annually coppiced ash in a rockery 10' from a house is a pest. Ashes are not rare, and should be planted only where there is space for them. LOTS of it. They make first-class coppicing trees, for producing firewood, poles etc. - but that is a commercial activity. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Janet Baraclough wrote: The message . com from "Mike Lyle" contains these words: years, but my question is how large can it grow in ten years, For the record, no it doesn't. That was the OP, not me. -- Mike. |
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In article . com, "Mike Lyle" writes: | | Janet Baraclough wrote: | The message . com | from "Mike Lyle" contains these words: | | years, but my question is how large can it grow in ten years, | | For the record, no it doesn't. That was the OP, not me. Well, it was THE question - it just wasn't YOUR question. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 18:41:47 +0100, VisionSet wrote
(in article ): "Sacha Hubbard" wrote in message al.net... Cutting the top back won't stop the roots growing at all. I'm surprised it hasn't completely ruined your rockery! It's easy to get unnecessarily worried about trees, especially with modern foundations, but I think ten feet is far too close to the house for comfortsnip . I'd remove the tree. I agree totally with this. I've had to do the same thing under similar circumstances but my ash tree was growing on top of a lowish wall about ten feet from my kitchen window. The roots were below the wall and heading straight for the house. Unhappily, I think you have no choice. What, not working with nature then? I confidently predicted that response. However, I did not plant the ash and I did not build the house. And I didn't park a caravan near either. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon email address on web site |
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In message , Nick Maclaren
writes As she says, though cutting the top every year does slow its root growth. But even an annually coppiced ash in a rockery 10' from a house is a pest. Ashes are not rare, and should be planted only where there is space for them. LOTS of it. They make first-class coppicing trees, for producing firewood, poles etc. - but that is a commercial activity. It was probably self-sown; they do seed freely. I'm always reluctant to agree with anyone on Usenet, but ten feet from your house is too close for an ash tree. -- Sue ];( |
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