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Silver Birch
I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have
about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their branches. They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will I need to prune, severely in Spring? Judith |
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"Judith in France" wrote in message
... I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their branches. They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will I need to prune, severely in Spring? Judith Best to wait until the spring to see how they recover. All should be well, but a little tidying up may be required. Regards, Emrys Davies. |
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"Judith in France" wrote in message ... I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their branches. They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will I need to prune, severely in Spring? If you do prune do NOT do it in spring but early summer when the sap has stopped running! Same for maples. Graham (in W. Canada where the temperature has been dropping to -30C at night over the last 10 days or so) |
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On Dec 23, 5:44*am, "graham" wrote:
"Judith in France" wrote in ...I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their branches. *They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will I need to prune, severely in Spring? If you do prune do NOT do it in spring but early summer when the sap has stopped running! *Same for maples. Graham (in W. Canada where the temperature has been dropping to -30C at night over the last 10 days or so) Thanks everyone all advice gratefully accepted. I will prune in early Summer. They are 20 years old now and huge things and although we get snow every year, this is the first time I have seen damage as bad as this. Judith |
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"graham" wrote in message ... "Judith in France" wrote in message ... I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their branches. They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will I need to prune, severely in Spring? If you do prune do NOT do it in spring but early summer when the sap has stopped running! Same for maples. Graham (in W. Canada where the temperature has been dropping to -30C at night over the last 10 days or so) Graham, my son has just returned from Calgary, and he said it was -40 there, his boots froze to the ground.....he was unloading a helicopter at the time..... |
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"Sheila" wrote in message m... "graham" wrote in message ... "Judith in France" wrote in message ... I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their branches. They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will I need to prune, severely in Spring? If you do prune do NOT do it in spring but early summer when the sap has stopped running! Same for maples. Graham (in W. Canada where the temperature has been dropping to -30C at night over the last 10 days or so) Graham, my son has just returned from Calgary, and he said it was -40 there, his boots froze to the ground.....he was unloading a helicopter at the time..... Yes, it has been that cold with the windchill. I have a foot or so of snow on the roof and at least that on the lawns. I'm fed up with shovelling it off the driveway. The snow is packed down into ice several inches thick on the road in front. The main roads are clear (ish) but there are "devil strips" of packed snow between the lanes. It has warmed up a bit and is -19C this morning and a high of -15C is expected today. We don't have nearly as much snow as eastern Canada where it is much more humid. Our growing season is short, only about 110 FF days. Whereas Dad can harvest a cwt of runner beans in Suffolk, I've given up trying even to growing them - the last lot were killed by a snow storm in the middle of August!!!! Graham In Calgary |
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"graham" wrote in message ... | | "Judith in France" wrote in message | ... | I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have | about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their | branches. They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will | I need to prune, severely in Spring? | | If you do prune do NOT do it in spring but early summer when the sap has | stopped running! Same for maples. | Graham | (in W. Canada where the temperature has been dropping to -30C at night over | the last 10 days or so) I recently had a crown reduction done on my silver birch, the tree sugeon wouldn't even consider doing it untill after the leaves had mostly fallen as he siad they bleed so badly you really can only prune in the autumn |
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"Angela" wrote in message om... "graham" wrote in message ... | | "Judith in France" wrote in message | ... | I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have | about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their | branches. They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will | I need to prune, severely in Spring? | | If you do prune do NOT do it in spring but early summer when the sap has | stopped running! Same for maples. | Graham | (in W. Canada where the temperature has been dropping to -30C at night over | the last 10 days or so) I recently had a crown reduction done on my silver birch, the tree sugeon wouldn't even consider doing it untill after the leaves had mostly fallen as he siad they bleed so badly you really can only prune in the autumn Here in Canada, we prune them, if necessary, in July. I once cut a small branch off a birch too early and the bleeding was more like a flood! Graham |
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On Dec 23, 2:14*pm, "Angela" wrote:
"graham" wrote in message ... | | "Judith in France" wrote in message .... | I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have | about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their | branches. *They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will | I need to prune, severely in Spring? | | If you do prune do NOT do it in spring but early summer when the sap has | stopped running! *Same for maples. | Graham | (in W. Canada where the temperature has been dropping to -30C at night over | the last 10 days or so) I recently had a crown reduction done on my silver birch, the tree sugeon wouldn't even consider doing it untill after the leaves had mostly fallen as he siad they bleed so badly you really can only prune in the autumn Isn't that slightly different from what another poster said? I thought that perhaps, after reading the posts above, that they were similar to plum which can only be pruned when the sap is rising? Judith |
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Judith in France wrote:
On Dec 23, 2:14 pm, "Angela" wrote: "graham" wrote in message ... | | "Judith in France" wrote in message ... | I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have | about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their | branches. They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will | I need to prune, severely in Spring? | | If you do prune do NOT do it in spring but early summer when the sap has | stopped running! Same for maples. | Graham | (in W. Canada where the temperature has been dropping to -30C at night over | the last 10 days or so) I recently had a crown reduction done on my silver birch, the tree sugeon wouldn't even consider doing it untill after the leaves had mostly fallen as he siad they bleed so badly you really can only prune in the autumn Isn't that slightly different from what another poster said? I thought that perhaps, after reading the posts above, that they were similar to plum which can only be pruned when the sap is rising? Hi Judith, Don't prune in spring, the bleeding will be serious. Autumn or winter is the time. But I think yours are best left alone, they do spring back quite a bit. Cheers for Christmas, -E |
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On Dec 23, 9:30*pm, Emery Davis wrote:
Judith in France wrote: On Dec 23, 2:14 pm, "Angela" wrote: "graham" wrote in message ... | | "Judith in France" wrote in message ... | I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have | about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their | branches. *They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will | I need to prune, severely in Spring? | | If you do prune do NOT do it in spring but early summer when the sap has | stopped running! *Same for maples. | Graham | (in W. Canada where the temperature has been dropping to -30C at night over | the last 10 days or so) I recently had a crown reduction done on my silver birch, the tree sugeon wouldn't even consider doing it untill after the leaves had mostly fallen as he siad they bleed so badly you really can only prune in the autumn Isn't that slightly different from what another poster said? *I thought that perhaps, after reading the posts above, that they were similar to plum which can only be pruned when the sap is rising? Hi Judith, Don't prune in spring, the bleeding will be serious. *Autumn or winter is the time. *But I think yours are best left alone, they do spring back quite a bit. Cheers for Christmas, -E Hi Emrys, the broken branches won't spring back though. At lunch yesterday, one of the guests, a chap who lives in Spain is a tree doctor and his wife a landscape gardener, I had a lovely time talking to them. He said, cut off the branch whilst the tree is dormant and leave the rest to spring back into shape. Happy Christmas back to you and yours. p.s. Emrys, totally off topic, but I posed a question re tax in a French group, can you point me to one as you live in France too? Judith |
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"Judith in France" wrote in message ... On Dec 23, 2:14 pm, "Angela" wrote: "graham" wrote in message I recently had a crown reduction done on my silver birch, the tree sugeon wouldn't even consider doing it untill after the leaves had mostly fallen as he siad they bleed so badly you really can only prune in the autumn Isn't that slightly different from what another poster said? I thought that perhaps, after reading the posts above, that they were similar to plum which can only be pruned when the sap is rising? Judith No absolutely not, silver birches apparently bleed profusely. I'm only telling what a professional tree surgeon said and he had no reason to lie, he could very well have lost the job if I hadn't believed him and just got somebody to do it in the summer |
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"Anne Welsh Jackson" wrote in message ... "Angela" wrote: Isn't that slightly different from what another poster said? I thought that perhaps, after reading the posts above, that they were similar to plum which can only be pruned when the sap is rising? No absolutely not, silver birches apparently bleed profusely. I'm only telling what a professional tree surgeon said and he had no reason to lie, he could very well have lost the job if I hadn't believed him and just got somebody to do it in the summer A neighbour of our very stupidly had their silver birches (savagely) pruned last summer, and the following morning it looked as if they'd had a new water feature installed! Could it not have been a sap extraction wine source gone drastically wrong ? Little holes and corks is the common method iirc. Regards Pete (;-) |
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graham wrote:
"Judith in France" wrote in message ... I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their branches. They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will I need to prune, severely in Spring? If you do prune do NOT do it in spring but early summer when the sap has stopped running! Same for maples. Graham (in W. Canada where the temperature has been dropping to -30C at night over the last 10 days or so) "Maples" is too large a group to treat with a single piece of advice, but generally speaking the best time to prune sugar, silver, red and Japanese (meaning saccharum, saccharinum, rubrum and palmatum) is early to late fall, after leaf drop. Of course most maples don't need much pruning. We certainly agree that, like birches, pruning in late winter or spring when the sap is running is the worst thing to do. Our climate is not the same. I sympathize with -30, but I planted 4 trees yesterday (A. rufinerve 'Sunshine', A. tartaricum ssp ginalla 'Flame', A. pseudoplatanus 'Leat's cottage' and Oxydendrum arboreum). Meant to get cold tomorrow, though, and we'll probably have a frost at least here in Normandy. Best holiday wishes to all urglers! -E |
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"Judith in France" wrote in message ... I arrived home in France today to see my beloved Silver Birch, I have about a dozen but 2 were very damaged with the weight of snow on their branches. They are drooping, like a willow, will they recover or will I need to prune, severely in Spring? Judith How tall are they Judith? Mine must be older than yours, and they are Tall! |
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