The horse chestnuts are under threat. http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59757 Certainly around here in S.E. London the trees have had a severe leaf disease and almost all of them look like it is November. Are we going to lose many of them?
Appreciate your Horse Chestnut trees
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The trees where I live (South London) are badly affected by the leaf miner. I had a close look down the end of my road when I first noticed it coming again this year. You could see where the miner had burrowed along and the fungi was following it in the little tunnels. At first I thought it was the fungi that sort of hollowed out the leaf but was talking to a bloke from the Wildlife Trust last week and he told me about the leaf miner introducing the fungi infection.
As the article says I dont think the general public know about it. Earlier in the summer one of the tabloid papers had an article about the drought and showed pictures of horse chestnut trees with the leafs going brown
I didnt know about the bleeding canker. Its very sad, they are lovely trees lining the street with their magnificent flowers in the spring.
As the article says I dont think the general public know about it. Earlier in the summer one of the tabloid papers had an article about the drought and showed pictures of horse chestnut trees with the leafs going brown
I didnt know about the bleeding canker. Its very sad, they are lovely trees lining the street with their magnificent flowers in the spring.
I've seen a fair bit of that around, and wondered what it was. At first I assumed it was something to do with the weather, but it quickly became clear it was some kind of blight. I didn't realised it was so big a problem, though.
Let's hope that the trees sort themselves out and that councils aren't forced to do a mass cull.
Let's hope that the trees sort themselves out and that councils aren't forced to do a mass cull.
rich59 said:
Horse chestnut trees are also among the first to drop all their leaves in a drought...
In any case, the horse chestnut is of use to neither man nor beast.
Other than providing conkers and shade.
And a bit of uninteresting wood.
Good riddance to them. Replant with something useful. I.e. with edible fruit!
K
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