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Re: Planting oak into hard landscape

Subject: Re: Planting oak into hard landscape
From: Adam Hollis
Date: Dec 21 2004 13:35:07
On Tuesday, December 7, 2004, at 09:26 PM,
uktc-request@xxxxxx.tree-care.info wrote: 


Date: Tue,  7 Dec 2004 13:47:26 +0000
From: Edmund Hopkins <Edmund.Hopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.gov.uk>
Subject: Planting oak into hard landscape

It is averred by our landscape architect that oak are unsuitable for
planting into hard landscape because you need a small one for
successful 
establishment. Please someone tell me this is not so!

--
Edmund Hopkins
City of Nottingham Council



Edmund
Bit of a late reply, I'm afraid, but I've been to busy shopping to keep
up with the forum. 

There's oaks and there's oaks, but particularly the ornamental ones.
Red oaks aren't so hot for transplanting ease, but regular robur
shouldn't be too bad.
However, with anything that's sensitive, the answer is not to rule it
out altogether or to think small, but to take greater care.
As with pines go for containerised stock or well-developed rootballs
(transplanted as much as possible).
A tree officer, i know who'd also had problems, swapped from bare-root
to containers and didn't look back. 

Similarly, there are fastigiate oaks and their are fastigiate oaks.

Some are less vigorous and more prone to mildew and rust than others.
In general though, the fastigiate form does not tolerate drought in the
early years of establishment. It needs to be given extra water,
promptly and regularly or the tops dry up and die back.
They also prefer loamy soils and don't do so well on poor acidic sandy
soils or heavy clay. This could be a problem for the development site
scenarios envisaged in other threads / essemtialArb, if the soils are
poor and there's no after care. But it doesn't have to be that way, of
course. Quercus sera sera 

Regards

Adam





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