6.-Jeannie Buckingham Veterantrees-2.Pdf

Hazel & Bill – TW’s Creeting St Mary Copse of 13 edible trees for ‘BlackSmith’s community meadow’ - planted Jan 2019 with a ceramic ammonite in the centre - made by Lisa. • Cherry ‘Hertford’ • Apple ‘Red Falstaff’ • Apple ‘Beauty of Bath’ • Apple ‘Spartan’ • Pear ‘Concorde’ • Pear ‘Comice’ • Plum ’Jubilee’ • Plum ‘Herman’ • Plum ‘Victoria’ • Damson ‘Farleigh’ • Filbert ‘Gunslebert’ • Hazelnut ‘ Gustav’s Zeller’ • Cobnut ‘Cosford’ To remember Lisa Framsden – community woodland http://framsdenwoodlandgroup.blogspot.com/ To create a ‘wet’ area to increase diversity • Pipe from ditch into centre of the wood. • Add ‘dams’ of logs to disperse water • Re-seed disturbed path with Clover grass mix Create dams of woven sticks to disperse water & keep moist for longer Framsden Woodland work group Framsden Veteran Tree Survey • Survey completed December 2000 and submitted to Mid Suffolk DC and to the National veteran tree and hedgerow surveys. • Survey records all ‘pollard’ trees – an ancient tree management system where timber was repeatedly cut back to the same point - above browse height, so that grazing animals and growing wood on the same piece of land was a good use of a scarce resource. Trees could be repeatedly harvested of their wood over several centuries • The tree responds to pollarding by building up a dense mass which resists decay and effectively divides the vigorous growing branches from the ageing stem. The ancient trunk keeps a constantly young canopy; suspending the normal ageing process. Pollarding died out towards the late C18th and several of Framsdens Veteran Oak Pollards could be more than 600 years , but with 200 year old branches growing from their original pollard points. This has implications for future management. • Our survey highlights trees where pollarding could be re-introduced successfully. • Pollards are also very valuable for the habitat they provide. The decaying heartwood and hollowing of the trunk support fungi, invertebrates, algae, lichen and other species. • Southern England has over 90% of Northern Europe’s ancient trees. • Young pollards have been included in the survey as these are the replacement trees and need to be managed now, to help ensure continuity of habitat and heritage. • Framsden’s oldest ‘Maiden’ trees - left to grow to a ‘natural’ shape – are recorded at over 4.2m and are very substantial trees indeed. • Veteran Trees give clues on past land use and can mark long forgotten boundaries and landscapes. • Framsden’s largest veteran trees are a valuable and prominent landscape feature. Too many have passed into oblivion without remark during the past 50 years, due to drought, storms, disease, forestry, agriculture, new development, ‘ageism’ and the ‘tidy up’ impulse - all have contributed in degrading our veteran tree inheritance. With increasing pressure from climate change it is really important that we value the veteran trees we have and invest in a replanting programme. • EveryVeteran tree identified with Tree its own unique Survey record. • Location - churchyard, private garden, near water, near route or boundaries. • Surroundings - Meadow, Arable, near buildings or electric cables etc. • Species - Oak, Field Maple, Yew etc. • Form – Maiden tree over 4.2m twin or multi stemmed, all Pollards recent or lapsed management • Girth • Condition – upright, leaning, collapsed, hollow trunk or ivy clad extending into crown • Vigour – Dead, live on stem only, percent of live crown growth. • Using 1:2500 maps, we take a grid square. All trees surveyed within this area will have the grid reference, a sheet number, and each tree given a letter under which all the above information is noted. • E.g. The Helmingham Tree Survey grid square TM1858 • (see square on card), sheet 1, tree F (see survey sheet) • “TM1858 1.F.” This tree is very special indeed:- • It was measured and inspected closely. • It is located in a historic park, in rough ground/woodland • It is a Maiden Oak, twin stemmed and has a girth in excess of 6m. It is upright with over 50% live crown. • It is noted in the comments to be a fine specimen. • Tree Survey Card B1077 Framsden HelmingHam Framsden Hall Veteran Oaks Future Veteran Pollard? Jeanna TW Nettlested – bushes eaten by caterpillars • Spindle Ermine Moth. Reassured NOT new invasive species – Concern it could extend to the Woodland Garden in Blakenham. Also in Nettlested…. • Planted 45 trees around the farm. Given by ‘Eastern Claylands’ landscape project – The Woodland Trust . • Planting trees for Lord Blakenham’s Memorial Wood at the church. • Survey of churchyard trees following architect recommendation to coppice. Survey support by Ali Martin, resulted in a more sensitive approach to the limes. Veteran tree – safety issue • Suggestions - crown reduction/discussions with Urban Forestry. No further action as yet. Grafted Heritage apple from parents orcHard to sHare witH friends… • Distributed 7 Traditional Apple trees to friends, grafted by East of England Apples and Orchards Project. Mother tree 100 yrs old. Unknown variety from parents orchard. Honey fungus threatening this lovely old tree which fruits well. Intend to identify the tree which is possibly ‘Monarch’..

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