The elder is another tree that gets less than it deserves from some quarters. One farmer I know complained that the Forestry Commission nearby had cut down alien conifers in a nearby plantation and now all the "wrong things" were growing "like elder". Well some people are just hard to please. And proof that some of the public may have been brainwashed to want all countryside top-down managed. Is elder not a native British tree and doesn't it produce flowers for elderflower cordial and berries for fruit pies? And nothing could be more elegant than a specimen like this one alongside the path fulfilling its role as the latest white blossom following blackthorn, rowan and hawthorn.
Sycamores at several points around Blacka suffer from leaf scorch very soon after the foliage reaches maximum span.
This happens every year so the dryness of June is not a cause. It's odd to have an autumnal effect so early. If there's a fungus or some other invading organism responsible then why does it nota affect those nearby bordering the main road? Could pollution there be benefiting the trees in the way that bad air pollution before smoke control legislation actually prevented black spot on roses?
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