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Conifer keeling in "wind-tunnel"!
Hello All. The extraordinary gales whistling through Shropshire from Wales several weeks ago were too much for the thin 18-foot conifer in this photo. http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...ind-tunnel.jpg This conifer just could not withstand the wind and once the gales subsided it was left standing about 30 degrees from vertical! (It was easy enough to straighten it up again, largely by stamping heavily on the ground on the side from which the wind had hit it.) As this tree is only going to grow taller and thicker and encounter greater difficulty in the gales of each autumn and spring, it seems to me I only have two solutions: 1. Keep it at its current height and support the three with a diagonal post from behind, so that while the top may bend backwards (temporarily) in harsh winds, the root system won't be pulled at again, and once the winds stop the tree will be left fully vertical again. 2. Reduce it to a height of about six feet, and trim its branches, IF this kind of conifer will accept such cutting and IF it will then bush and fill itself in. What do you advise? Is there another solution? There's another conifer, of a different sort, nearby, which is currently only 6 feet high and which will grow into a very high and wide tree if I let it, but that cannot be because of proximity to the house. However I know that it is one of those conifers that you CAN trim and shape and it will "bush". But as for this one (in the photo), I have no idea. Many thanks, Eddy. |
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