[animartco]

Hi Sahop. Of course the thing to do is wait and see how many come into leaf. But you are showing a lot of pictures of a very agressive looking canker which seems to have been around for a while since one tree has been eaten away at the bottom for many years. Ashgale has a point though. If you are not used to being around natural unmanaged woodland, it is difficult to judge whether there is something really serious going on or not. The conifer you show certainly looks as if it has died, but some of the golden varieties are not as hardy as the green and the severe winter we have had would have been responsible for that demise. There wouldn't be any runoff from fields above 'the wildwood' would there? If a farmer had been putting broadleaf killer on grass for years... Oh well see how they come up in the spring.