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My Rowan Tree ( Mountain Ash)
I've a feeling there's something wrong with my Rowan tree. Normally by now
the berries have gone, either eaten by the birds or fallen over-ripe to the ground. I saw a bird or two eating them earlier in the winter but since then, nothing. What worries me is that the berries are still not ripe, a sort of orange colour, not even one of them red as they always have been till this winter. Now I need help. Is this the beginning of the end for my tree? It's about 28 years old, I don't know how long they live, but if it's going to give up the ghost I'd rather have it cut down before it falls down! Just my luck if someone was walking along the pavement as it toppled! Can anybody help me, please? -- Pam |
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My Rowan Tree ( Mountain Ash)
Pam the goose wrote:
I've a feeling there's something wrong with my Rowan tree. Normally by now the berries have gone, either eaten by the birds or fallen over-ripe to the ground. I saw a bird or two eating them earlier in the winter but since then, nothing. What worries me is that the berries are still not ripe, a sort of orange colour, not even one of them red as they always have been till this winter. Now I need help. Is this the beginning of the end for my tree? It's about 28 years old, I don't know how long they live, but if it's going to give up the ghost I'd rather have it cut down before it falls down! Just my luck if someone was walking along the pavement as it toppled! Can anybody help me, please? Pam, first of all let's hope it's just the weather, and your Rowan will be fine next year. Otherwise, this is what Hugh McAllister writes in his excellent "The Genus Sorbus" (Kew): "... Sorbus trunks are short lived. This need not deter gardeners or landscapers from taking a longer term view. In the wild, even though individual trunks may become infected by fungi and start to die back after about forty years, all species freely produce stool shoots from the base of their main trunks and individuals can produce successive generations of trunks. Thus, in situations where trees are grown on their own roots (i.e. not grafted) and do not need to be grown on a single trunk, moribund old trunks can be cut out and stool shoots allowed to replace them." So, even if you do need to take out the main trunk, there's hope that you (and the birds) will still enjoy it for many years. HTH -E |
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My Rowan Tree ( Mountain Ash)
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Emery Davis typed: Pam, first of all let's hope it's just the weather, and your Rowan will be fine next year. That would be wonderful, I'll wait and see! Otherwise, this is what Hugh McAllister writes in his excellent "The Genus Sorbus" (Kew): "... Sorbus trunks are short lived. This need not deter gardeners or landscapers from taking a longer term view. In the wild, even though individual trunks may become infected by fungi and start to die back after about forty years, all species freely produce stool shoots from the base of their main trunks and individuals can produce successive generations of trunks. Thus, in situations where trees are grown on their own roots (i.e. not grafted) and do not need to be grown on a single trunk, moribund old trunks can be cut out and stool shoots allowed to replace them." So, even if you do need to take out the main trunk, there's hope that you (and the birds) will still enjoy it for many years. I've been reading up on google about the tree and find their life expectancy can be up to 100 years so mine's only a quarter of the way to that figure :-) I'll look for some stool shoots and see if I can replace it with one of them But I think the best thing for now is to wait and see what happens next year. HTH It does, indeed, Emery, thanks very much:-) -- Pam |
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