Monday, November 19, 2012

Monday, November 5, 2012

Ash Die Back

We are all learning what we can very quickly about Ash Die Back (ADB) in the hope that we can take steps to help make the outbreak of th einfection less damaging than Dutch Elm Disease (DED).   However, amongst a huge amount of information being posted on UK Tree Care (http://www.tree-care.info/uktc) a very pertinent recent comment from Roderick Leslie is that history may not help: there is no read across between infections, each is different and so each will present different learning opportunities to the tree manager.

Can ADB be contained/eradicated?   The answer at the moment is unclear; I first heard about it one evening in the summer when walking along the canal, a pocket park had been re-stocked with ash trees that the nursery re-called, others will have seen the symptoms earlier, I believe I have read of outbreaks reported from 2009 when the infection went without a name.