On the spot advice is available from your local Council who will have Tree Experts. Unfortunately it is not going to be an easy task and with you having three beautiful Oak Trees, I am sure will have a tree preservation order on them. I feel that it would be far better Luke to obtain on the spot advice from a local qualified tree surgeon as I am sure you will be aware Ivy can do immense damage to trees and it may be a question of installing a structure around the trees to remove the Ivy. Please help, how can I kill the ivy off because I've heard that the ivy can kill the tree if left. I've tried chopping some the ivy at the base in hope that it would kill the rest on one of the oaks but the higher up the tree ivy is still very heath and green. Around the base of the tree the roots of the ivy are about 2-3 inches thick. In my garden I have 3 very large oak trees about 80 - 100 ft, these are lovely trees but growing up all the trunk and most of the branches are very, very thick ivy. So, whatever the problem, we like to think Bill can sort it out. Now, he's a regular course tutor at Alston Hall, Longridge and Lancaster Adult College.įor three decades, Bill has travelled the county with fellow judges as a regional judge for North West in Bloom.
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After training at the under the then Ministry of Agriculture, Bill spent over twenty years at the Department of Biological and Environmental Services at Lancaster University. He has been answering BBC Radio Lancashire listeners' queries for over thirty years, which means he's been there nearly as long as the transmitter! If it's green and needs watering, Bill can tell you about it.
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And in many instances, the damage came from weed spraying that was done in 2017 or even earlier.Warton's Bill Blackledge is one of the county's most popular and sought after gardeners. I have seen quite a large number of trees this summer that have been damaged in this manner. These sprays can be very injurious to trees and shrubs. Some of these go into the ground with water and the trees and shrubs will take them in through their roots. The problem with some weed sprays is that they contain a mix of chemicals. The next spring there will be very few dandelions in the lawn so a small hand squirt bottle can be used to spray them and further protect desirable plants. The adult plants will also be controlled more completely as well. By spraying in the fall, they are killed and very few will be present in the lawn the following year. Most dandelion seedlings start growing in late summer.
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If dandelions are the biggest concern in the lawn, spraying in early fall with 2,4-D Amine will do the most good for having a weed free lawn. Dicamba is much more volatile and vapors can move with breezes easily and all broad-leafed plants. The Ester formulation, even in a low volatile form may have some vapors which can drift on to adjacent flowers, trees or gardens. It does not have vapors or fumes that can move with a breeze and injury trees or other broad-leafed plants nearby.
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With the Amine formulation, it can be carefully sprayed very close to trees and shrubs. This is very important to know when selecting the safest yet effective weed control spray.Ģ,4-D is a weed spray that has been used since the 1940s. With this in mind, a 10-foot tree has roots out at least 15 feet in all directions. A correct rule of thumb is that a tree will root out 1.5 to 3 times its height in all directions. The theory was that this is the rooting distance of that tree. An old rule of thumb that is not correct is that you can spray a weed killer up to the “drip line,” which is the outer tips of the branches.