please recommend a native Irish tree
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carolan
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 Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:53 pm Post subject: please recommend a native Irish tree |
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Hello
Sadly the time has come to landscape the family smallholding in Mayo . My Uncle was the last of his generation to live on it , and as his neices and nephews all live all over the world it is time to make decisions . We would like to plant a native Irish tree , that will grow large and have a long life in memory of the family . I was wondering about an Irish oak ? The land is fairly poor and peaty , in NW Mayo . Any ideas , suggestions very gratefully recieved . |
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James Kilkelly, was GPI.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:39 am Post subject: Re: please recommend a native Irish tree |
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| carolan wrote: | Hello
We would like to plant a native Irish tree , that will grow large and have a long life in memory of the family . I was wondering about an Irish oak ? The land is fairly poor and peaty , in NW Mayo . |
I reckon oak could be an option as it does grow large eventually, and has a long life.
Of the two native oaks we have in this country the Pedunculate oak seems more suited to your soil.
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The Pedunculate Oak grows well in moist humus rich soils whereas Sessile Oak prefers lighter free draining soils, because of this it can often be found growing on higher ground. |
from this article.... Quercus robur and Quercus petraea
I presume by you saying "The land is fairly poor and peaty" that it is poorly drained as well.
Scots pine, also native and large growing, is a good evergreen conifer option to check out... Scots pine / fir... Pinus sylvestris ... Péine albanach
Of course the native tree that sounds best suited to your site conditions is our native alder is the black alder, Alnus glutinosa. A member of the birch family, this deciduous (sheds and renews leaves annually) (sheds and renews leaves annually) tree grows up to ½ a metre a year, quickly reaching its maximum height of 20-25 metres. Very quick to establish, and, once established, maddeningly difficult to root out of the ground again, these are two of the reasons that black alder works well as a soil maintainer and erosion reducer to the soils along our river banks. See here... Black Alder ... Alnus glutinosa ... Fearnóg
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