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Do watch out for this nasty invasive plant – Fallopia japonica – which is a large, herbaceous perennial of the family Polygonaceae, native to Eastern Asia in Japan, China and Korea.
It is a notifiable weed, like Himalayan Balsam and Ragwort, and it’s up to the property owner to ensure it is removed. You won’t be able to sell your property if it has knotweed as mortgage brokers won’t grant a mortgage and you can be fined £2,500 if you ignore its presence as this is considered a criminal offence.
The appearance of knotweed changes throughout the year from purple/red stems and pinky-red leaves in Spring to the virulent, growing stems upwards of six feet in Autumn, with cream/white flowers. Unlikely that you would see anything just now as it will have died back over the winter. The image here is from the RHS website and here’s a link to this, with more information.
If you do suspect you may have this unwelcome visitor, please do give us a call and we can undertake a free site visit and suggest a plan of treatment to eradicate it properly. It really isn’t something you would want to try at home yourself!
See our weed control page for details of what else we can help you with…
We’ve had a busy few weeks in Christchurch, Dorset, giving some TLC, reduction and some felling to 40 oak trees which hadn’t been maintained for many years. We had one surprise, though….
One of the trunks was hollow as it was full of honey! A colony of bees had nested in it, so with the help of the local Bee Society, we needed to move them to a new home. They had to be smoked out at night but leaving the Queen in the tree. We then carefully felled the tree and moved it, the Queen and the honey to its new home, with the worker bees following the lorry with the Queen.
The local Bee Society were just delighted we hadn’t simply felled the tree and rendered the colony homeless… But no responsible tree surgeon would do that, surely?
For details of our other ‘different’ services, check out our web page here
We just erected 600m of Equestrian post and rail fencing at the beautiful equestrian estate at Manton, near Marlborough.
See details of all our fencing capabilities here.
Whilst not very exciting images, we erected a lot of security chain link fencing in Avonmouth, Bristol and Weston for Wessex Water. It’s for the security of their plant, pumping stations and sewage treatment areas. The fencing is secured through a 12″ concrete base.
See our fencing page here for more details of the different types of fencing we can provide
This image illustrates the importance of getting your trees surveyed…. This is taken at the rear of Three Daggers Pub in Edington. Just imagine if it hadn’t been for the Beech Tree stopping the Silver Birch from crashing onto the building. What mess and structural damage would have been caused, let alone perhaps damage to life and limb…
The Conservation Contractors Fencing team undertook security fencing pipeline fuel recovery compounds. The task was to complete some 300m close board fencing to secure pipeline and fuel recovery compounds for Fisher German who are agents for the Esso pipeline.
The task was to complete 300m close board fencing to secure pipeline and fuel recovery compounds. The project was carried out for Fisher German who are agents for the Esso pipeline.
The project was carried out for Fisher German who are agents for the Esso pipeline.
See the various types of fencing we undertake here
The lightning storm last week has damaged one of Bradford-on-Avon’s ancient oak trees which was ‘always there’ as you enter the town near the Canal off the Sainsbury’s roundabout on the Frome Road.
Following a call from Wiltshire Council on the Friday morning, William Warden, owner of Conservation Contractors in Devizes, sent one of his teams urgently to the stricken tree to evaluate the damage. Not only had the tree suffered extensive damage, but it was adjacent to an electricity sub station, so the tree had to be dismantled carefully, safely and quickly.
Because of the height of the tree, a supersized access platform was needed, which the Wiltshire Fire Brigade supplied, allowing the Conservation Contractors team to start work.
Firstly they had to make the tree safe by reducing the height from some 25/30m by half. Then, once this part of the work was done, the dismantling continued until a rather sad trunk was all that remained. And then it was ‘Timber’ with the trunk. The branches were chipped for small brushwood and the timbers have gone locally for firewood.
William says: “We were pleased to help…. It was one of the jobs that needed not only the skills of our experienced team of tree surgeons but also our equipment and know how to dismantle the tree without damaging the substation”.
See Conversation Contractors tree surgery page on their website here
This was a job near Waitrose in Salisbury, which we undertook for Wiltshire County Council. The 120′ trees had become rotten and unsafe and with a footpath underneath and a river running alongside, made for urgent action needed to remove them.
We have a lot of pictures from the main day’s work, so here are just a few below and also a you tube link here
See our tree surgery page for more information about the tree work we undertake
