| Re: Help with Sick Horse Chestnut Tree
The advice I received regarding a horse chestnut with bleeding canker was to remove it. The tree had a TPO in place, but was close to the house. The recommendation to remove it, as I understand, was that should it die then it would be likely to drop branches because the timber of this species is not terribly robust. The local tree officer came to have a look at it, although I suspect it was merely an excuse to get out of the office and rack up a few mileage expenses as he had already seen a variety of photos of the affected tree.
It probably depends on the local situation quite a lot, I think that the councils main concern here was to maintain some trees in the area, and whilst there are still others about those that are close to houses and diseased are clearly not high priorities for protection.
Replanting was required, but it will probably be a couple of decades before any of the recently planted trees are of any appreciable size, but hopefully some of the remaining mature trees will still be standing then too.
Dod  |