We had been trying to identify a tree growing (very fast!) right next to
the wall of our daughter's new house --- and ailanthus it almost
certainly is! They have only been in the house a couple of months, and
in that time it has grown to some 3m.
I had not knowingly seen one before, but we're pretty sure. In any case,
whatever it is, it has to go. If anyone has successfully eradicated an
ailanthus, could you tell us how?
And as the house was surveyed just three months ago, surely the surveyor
should have warned them!
Thanks!

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Klara, Gatwick basin

"Klara" wrote in message
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We had been trying to identify a tree growing (very fast!) right next to
the wall of our daughter's new house --- and ailanthus it almost certainly
is! They have only been in the house a couple of months, and in that time
it has grown to some 3m.
I had not knowingly seen one before, but we're pretty sure. In any case,
whatever it is, it has to go. If anyone has successfully eradicated an
ailanthus, could you tell us how?
And as the house was surveyed just three months ago, surely the surveyor
should have warned them!
Thanks!


most surveyors would not know the difference between an Ailanthis and a
Haddock;
they would know what a tree was because they worry if they are too close to
houses
but it depends on what the survey is for.

Why are people so upset by theses Ailanthusses? What is so hard to
eradicate (I saw a lot of web sites but did not read any)?

Des

Rhodendron ponticum = tree of hell

--
Klara, Gatwick basin

Des Higgins wrote:
most surveyors would not know the difference between an Ailanthis and a
Haddock;

)) I think it's something to do with the speed in which the ailanthis
is growing. But then again so many other plants grow at that speed ...
Again, I would put it to the media, which due to lack of news, time of
year or just for the sake of a story, scare the population with yet
again 'invading poisonnous trees'. That 'invading' word plays on your
psychy you know, much more than the word 'poisonnous'.

Rhodendron ponticum = tree of hell

Now you're talking. Mine's a potted ponticum - best place for it.

"La Puce" wrote in message
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Des Higgins wrote:
most surveyors would not know the difference between an Ailanthis and a
Haddock;

)) I think it's something to do with the speed in which the ailanthis
is growing. But then again so many other plants grow at that speed ...
Again, I would put it to the media, which due to lack of news, time of
year or just for the sake of a story, scare the population with yet
again 'invading poisonnous trees'. That 'invading' word plays on your
psychy you know, much more than the word 'poisonnous'.

Rhodendron ponticum = tree of hell

Now you're talking. Mine's a potted ponticum - best place for it.


They self seed. Do not let it set seed.
The native oakwoods of SW Ireland are being strangled by it.

Des Higgins wrote:
They self seed. Do not let it set seed.

I'll have a word with it then.

The native oakwoods of SW Ireland are being strangled by it.

I know. Sad affair. I don't like rhodo. I really don't. There was a
chap garden designer who's name escape me now, who did extraordinary
things with the rhodos he had. He managed them in such a way, the
trunks were beautifully shaped, elegant and I had never thought the
trunks could be so colourful, the leaves bushed out in clouds like in a
japenese landscape. Really nice.