Acorns

We have an oak tree on the edge of our garden. I think it must be eighty years old (a foot around the girth for every ten years?) I've never seen it set proper acorns as the whole tree has gall wasp.  

Luckily we have healthy Ash around here and the other Oaks are OK.

The trees in our woods and the remains in what was the estate of Digswell House just down the road from us (still there ,now extended and made into expensive houses even for our area )are all more than 250 yrs old and no one can ever remember  being so much "fruit"produced as this year

Yes you can just plat a few acorns in a corner and transplant the young trees in due course. Like all "environmentalist's" they do a lot of huffing/puffing and talking but dont do anything practical. Oh yes blame farmers for everything. Now is an opportunity for doing a little. Healthy ash will no doubt succumb over the next few years unfortunately.

I've lost a post but I'd written that I found some flat cupped small round acorns, different sort of oak, so I've potted them up. 

The web site is really playing up!

There are two  types of native oak. Common and Sessile.

It would have not been as catastrophic for the UKs wildlife if the hedges that many Farmers tore out in the chase for profits were still in place,

Whenever we are out and about at significant places such as stately homes I look for a few acorns and then grow them on in pots at home. Where I’m going to put them all I don’t know.

Many years ago we had some woodland which had a few oaks on it. My dad needed some oak and had one of the trees cut down and converted but my sister managed to find an acorn from it. She grew this on and eventually it produced acorns of its own. One of these she grew on in a pot which she gave to me. This is now about 15 feet high and had a massive crop of its own acorns this year. The slightly comical thing about this is that I have in my garden some of the seasoned oak that my dad had converted all those years ago so that is the grandparent of my ‘new’ tree. 

I think it's always been the acorn in a farm worker's pocket that grew our oaks. 

It's good to talk trees! 

How much is paid to reinstate hedges and for set aside also is it the two metres? edges of fields for wildlife conservation

acorns are sown in pots every year in this area and when saplings big enough are planted in our ancient woodlands to with other broadleaf saplings make them more secure for future generations(all protected from the Deer (three breeds) and others who would love to eat them