Sweet Chesnut Blight - Confirmed in Devon

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Sweet Chesnut Blight - Confirmed in Devon

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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 12, 17 11:37 am Post subject: Sweet Chesnut Blight - Confirmed in Devon
https://www.forestry.gov.uk/chestnutblight Movement restrictions on chestnut now in place.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri May 12, 17 12:07 pm Post subject:
Any idea where in Devon?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 12, 17 12:11 pm Post subject:
No, I don't know. I do know that ART have a big collection, and obviously sell trees too. He must be affected. It affects a few species of oak too but not so dramatically.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Fri May 12, 17 1:38 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

It affects a few species of oak too but not so dramatically.

I didn't realize that! interesting

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri May 12, 17 2:08 pm Post subject:

https://www.teigntrees.co.uk/blog/2017/sweet-chestnut-blight-devon

In early March 2017 the number of quarantined zones in Devon and the Southwest was increased to 4 after additional confirmed outbreaks. Initially 2 areas in Devon were affected � a zone around the Exe Estuary focusing on the village of Starcross and also an area of coastal North Devon between Ilfracombe and Braunton. The 2 new areas are an area around Willand in central Devon and also an area between Yeovil and Sherborne. There is a Prohibition in these areas.

Hope it doesn't get to the ones on the Commons.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 12, 17 2:09 pm Post subject:
Hope it doesn't come up here!

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri May 12, 17 2:45 pm Post subject:
You've got rather more chestnut trees than we have I suspect.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 12, 17 3:31 pm Post subject:
Still got around 60 after the initial losses

yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri May 12, 17 4:10 pm Post subject:
hmmm, ten miles away; we have two twenty-year-old sweet chestnuts, in a row with Ash and Elm. And hazel. Anything on the horizon for hazel?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Fri May 12, 17 11:43 pm Post subject:
Not so far, can't be too far off though.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sat May 13, 17 7:22 am Post subject:
Hope they can contain the outbreak. Doesn't look good to have new areas of infection though. I really hope we don't get anything affecting hazel, as there are several counties in the south of England that have large areas of it. They are already under threat from neglect and pulling up for development or owners whims.

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