Another interpretation of semi-mature is the nursery-stock category - trees
over 20cm girth at 1m; (ie from ~ <7cm up to ~15cm dbh). This is the meaning
I have always assumed was used..........
-----Original Message-----
From: Rupert Baker <rupert_baker@xxxxxxxx.co.uk>
To: UK Tree Care <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Sent: Tue, 1 May 2012 17:35
Subject: RE: BS5837 life stages
I've always assumed that is from whence it came Rupert. Simon's suggestion
that the others come from TIT2 is unlikely as they were already in BS5837
2005 and TIT2 is 2008. In this case I note that in the draft there was a
fourth sub category for trees that might be suitable for transplanting. IIRC
this was fairly roundly dissed on UKTC at the time the draft was issued. I'm
pretty certain I suggested it was not needed in my comments submission; I was
quite pleased to find it down-sized in the final version. This is not
particularly because I'm dead against the idea but because Table 1 was just
getting more and more cluttered and more difficult to read.....
I'm quite taken with Jerry's late-mature, which come to think of it is less
critical than over-mature or senescent. I'd not particularly seen it that
way.
I'm inclined to describe trees as "moribund" in that they lack vitality,
those big elderly Sycamores you get in the Derbyshire high country often seem
like that; nothing wrong with em and probably got a long future life, but
moribund sums them up nicely until someone pointed out that it can mean at
the point of death.
Words eh? makes you want to adopt double-speak; well, sometimes....
Bill.
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