The Native forest has to go back , ...............The King , the Oak , The Queen, The Ash ......both forming the roof of a healthy forest ecosystem , (Ireland's original landscape was a forested landscape) , following by there remaining 14 species of Tree native to a healthy ecosystem ..... We must turn around and re balance our relationship with the planet .... Good of you to share ! . Tks.
I planted 400 hawthorn trees just over 15 months ago,coming along well now, there were no trees along the fenced area there just starting to bud which is great it will be a late spring this year. well done to you too.
Thanks for that Jimmy ....great that you did that ....I hope you will document what you have done and publish it ....get a big awareness of what needs to be done generated ....
I live in southern Germany where some smart anncestors planted a lot of oaks and beeches some hundred years ago. Twenty years ago, prices for oaks were low and we sold only few of them, but beech prizes were high and we earned a lot of money. Today, oaks are sold at high prizes to France for making wine barrels. A single log is worth thousands of euros and the owners, mostly farmers are happy with that extra money. In other areas, where not so smart anncestors planted fast growing spruce, the damage is high by storms and climat change and we now let grow mixed forests of oaks, beeches and some other trees. All that can be done with no damage to the forest by cutting single older trees and keep the forest intact.
These trees are now doing very well on site. Some are of a very decent size and form. Good to see what can be done to restore things, Trees need to be planted in a sensitive manner. Some places will regenerate naturally. Please read Oliver Rackham's Woodlands.
Steve , yeah winter , into very earliest part of the spring is the best time to plant , really to have the tree in position before the sap starts to rise is ideal , planting in winter gives a much higher rate of sucess .
good , thanks for that , if you have any land or know of anyone that does , interested in native tree planting and woodland ecosystem restoration , glad to try to help !
I’m rewilding a few unneeded acres in the northeast, do you collect seeds or rehome saplings? Slim picks in my neck of the woods haven’t seen a young healthy sapling oak in years, I’d love to spread those genetics on my land, any help or advice welcomed please
No....if you want to help the tree develope the roots use fine earth around the roots , not sand ...it hadn't any nutrition....loosen up the ground ..that will help the tree to get a good start ....
@@aodhfinn Plenty of evidence to the prove the Elizabethans did just that including court orders from Elizabeth 1st stating just that - fast forward to Cromwell felling forests in Co Waterford and Cork all documented
@@jamescorbett3611 i know , there is evidence abundant that forest was cut under British rule , but im afraid your seriously beyond accurate to blame the crown forces and its planters and ancestry for the deforestation of the island .
It is so strange for me as a german to hear that you need to plant trees. I have a plot of ground with some apple trees and if I do not mow that twice a year all kind of trees are growing everywhere, wild plums, oaks, hazelnut...Must be the weather or the sheep.
@@aodhfinn I always thought that forests grow by themselves. I always thought that the irish landscape has always been like that and could not image that it was manmade. I would like to see Ireland forested.
@@aodhfinn no point. Just a remark. People need to understand that a recent landscape does not mean that it has always been or need to be. I did not know that if you do not plant trees in Ireland, there will not be a forest. In Germany, there would be a dense forest like the romans found it if we would not take a lot of effort to prevent trees to grow. Areas like the Lüneburger Heide with its unique heathland would be forest if we would not prevent that with lots of sheeps. Those are payed by the government btw. I thought that would be the same in Ireland.
@@JakobFischer60 obviously the natur forest would regenerate ..but at a slower rate than with help from humanity ..this if course you know ..northern Europe ...shares much in common ...be we , in the west of it ..it you ..in the centre
Ireland used to be covered in forest, but when the Brittish came over much of this was cut down over time for the manufacture of ships etc. Nowadays only 11% of the country is forested, which is a large improvement from a hundred years ago when it was around 2% however, the fast majority of the forest in Ireland now is coniferous plantation with the native mixed forests making up only a small fraction of the total area.
I'd have to challenge you on the ownership of the word... forest ... ... i would say , we dont have any forest in Ireland at all .. yes what is called...' forest' is ...monocrop tree plantation of species not native to Ireland and planted in the German Uniform System for industrial wood production.... there is a vast difference between a forest ... and a plantation .... what is being destroyed in Kalimantan, the Amazon, West Africa , or Laos is forest .... but that is a process of abuse long completed in Ireland and mostly well before the British arrived ... if you take that beginning point to have started with the Ulster Plantations.....
@@aodhfinn I would agree. I'm from Ireland but live in Hampshire uk. There are several areas within a 15bminute drive where you'll find decent woodland despite the population density. I face there are several areas where there are no signs of human life at all. By that I mean to electricity pylons or houses of commercial plantations, just single lane roads. You'd be hard pressed to find that in Ireland now a days. Just bungalows everywhere. We haven't really looked after the peat bogs very well either.
@@aodhfinn ah cool, thank you!! i'm trying to learn more about native plants and trees, so thank you for your information as well as what you do! hopefully more people will become aware of the beauty of native and natural ecosystems :)
The Native forest has to go back , ...............The King , the Oak , The Queen, The Ash ......both forming the roof of a healthy forest ecosystem , (Ireland's original landscape was a forested landscape) , following by there remaining 14 species of Tree native to a healthy ecosystem ..... We must turn around and re balance our relationship with the planet .... Good of you to share ! . Tks.
+aodhfinn Ah but the Beech is the queen my lad
@@irishelk3 Beech isnt native but a Queen no doubt
ireland realllly needs more trees. It has been deforested soo badly. I have planted around 200 in our area to liven the place up a little.
That's great to hear!! Tell us, what species did you plant and how are they doing? Out of the 200 how many are still alive?
well done!
@@soulshadoww55 , yes please, any update?
More trees and less sanitised bungalows!
I hope your trees are still alive 7 years gone now
I planted 400 hawthorn trees just over 15 months ago,coming along well now, there were no trees along the fenced area there just starting to bud which is great it will be a late spring this year. well done to you too.
Thanks for that Jimmy ....great that you did that ....I hope you will document what you have done and publish it ....get a big awareness of what needs to be done generated ....
I live in southern Germany where some smart anncestors planted a lot of oaks and beeches some hundred years ago. Twenty years ago, prices for oaks were low and we sold only few of them, but beech prizes were high and we earned a lot of money. Today, oaks are sold at high prizes to France for making wine barrels. A single log is worth thousands of euros and the owners, mostly farmers are happy with that extra money. In other areas, where not so smart anncestors planted fast growing spruce, the damage is high by storms and climat change and we now let grow mixed forests of oaks, beeches and some other trees. All that can be done with no damage to the forest by cutting single older trees and keep the forest intact.
I presume you understand the scale of reform that is needed here in Ireland around 'forest' and landuse strategy ?
Good job , thanks for the comment , Native trees ! The Oak has to regain the respect it once had , The oak is the king , not the banks .
Hopefully in a few hundred years, it will make a nice whiskey barrel one day.
@@eoinf1276 yeah hopefully Eoin ...you could do some of the distilling
@@aodhfinn 😂👍
These trees are now doing very well on site. Some are of a very decent size and form. Good to see what can be done to restore things, Trees need to be planted in a sensitive manner. Some places will regenerate naturally. Please read Oliver Rackham's Woodlands.
Nice one lads this is great to see thank you. I'm going to do some of this myself!!
thanks for the comment ! always appreciated , Treevolution :)
Steve , yeah winter , into very earliest part of the spring is the best time to plant , really to have the tree in position before the sap starts to rise is ideal , planting in winter gives a much higher rate of sucess .
good man
great stuff thumbs up !
good , thanks for that , if you have any land or know of anyone that does , interested in native tree planting and woodland ecosystem restoration , glad to try to help !
great work you're doing there lads. Is the best time to plant oak in the late autumn then?
I’m rewilding a few unneeded acres in the northeast, do you collect seeds or rehome saplings? Slim picks in my neck of the woods haven’t seen a young healthy sapling oak in years, I’d love to spread those genetics on my land, any help or advice welcomed please
is it possible to put sand around the roots to ease the oak to make more root?
nice video man!
No....if you want to help the tree develope the roots use fine earth around the roots , not sand ...it hadn't any nutrition....loosen up the ground ..that will help the tree to get a good start ....
So good to see this. Our forests need to be restored as the English under Queen Elizabeth 1st cut them down.
The English didn't ..that's a myth
@@aodhfinn Plenty of evidence to the prove the Elizabethans did just that including court orders from Elizabeth 1st stating just that - fast forward to Cromwell felling forests in Co Waterford and Cork all documented
@@aodhfinn Who was responsible for the tree loss in Ireland if it was not the English? And how are the trees you planted in this video doing now?
@@biddyearly9262 if it wasnt the english ...who do you think it was , there are still irish people living on this Island .
@@jamescorbett3611 i know , there is evidence abundant that forest was cut under British rule , but im afraid your seriously beyond accurate to blame the crown forces and its planters and ancestry for the deforestation of the island .
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Cork? they have loads of trees and plants in Cork, any time i look up Irish plant species its always in Cork..
It is so strange for me as a german to hear that you need to plant trees. I have a plot of ground with some apple trees and if I do not mow that twice a year all kind of trees are growing everywhere, wild plums, oaks, hazelnut...Must be the weather or the sheep.
As an Irish man I really do not understand the meaning or intend of that comment.You might explain .
@@aodhfinn I always thought that forests grow by themselves. I always thought that the irish landscape has always been like that and could not image that it was manmade. I would like to see Ireland forested.
@@JakobFischer60 I still don't understand your point
@@aodhfinn no point. Just a remark. People need to understand that a recent landscape does not mean that it has always been or need to be. I did not know that if you do not plant trees in Ireland, there will not be a forest. In Germany, there would be a dense forest like the romans found it if we would not take a lot of effort to prevent trees to grow. Areas like the Lüneburger Heide with its unique heathland would be forest if we would not prevent that with lots of sheeps. Those are payed by the government btw. I thought that would be the same in Ireland.
@@JakobFischer60 obviously the natur forest would regenerate ..but at a slower rate than with help from humanity ..this if course you know ..northern Europe ...shares much in common ...be we , in the west of it ..it you ..in the centre
how come there are no trees in ireland? I'm really curious.
Ireland used to be covered in forest, but when the Brittish came over much of this was cut down over time for the manufacture of ships etc. Nowadays only 11% of the country is forested, which is a large improvement from a hundred years ago when it was around 2% however, the fast majority of the forest in Ireland now is coniferous plantation with the native mixed forests making up only a small fraction of the total area.
I'd have to challenge you on the ownership of the word... forest ... ... i would say , we dont have any forest in Ireland at all .. yes what is called...' forest' is ...monocrop tree plantation of species not native to Ireland and planted in the German Uniform System for industrial wood production.... there is a vast difference between a forest ... and a plantation .... what is being destroyed in Kalimantan, the Amazon, West Africa , or Laos is forest .... but that is a process of abuse long completed in Ireland and mostly well before the British arrived ... if you take that beginning point to have started with the Ulster Plantations.....
@@aodhfinn I would agree. I'm from Ireland but live in Hampshire uk. There are several areas within a 15bminute drive where you'll find decent woodland despite the population density. I face there are several areas where there are no signs of human life at all. By that I mean to electricity pylons or houses of commercial plantations, just single lane roads. You'd be hard pressed to find that in Ireland now a days.
Just bungalows everywhere.
We haven't really looked after the peat bogs very well either.
aodhfinn Irish forests only really started to decrease ( in rapid numbers ) around 1700s I would argue or much more recent than a lot of people say
do the trees get choked by the rushes/grass around it?
no , they will be able to push through no problem ,
@@aodhfinn ah cool, thank you!! i'm trying to learn more about native plants and trees, so thank you for your information as well as what you do! hopefully more people will become aware of the beauty of native and natural ecosystems :)
love what your doing and im posting a story about it on my FB page. you can see at /natureninja1 thanks for your hard work
I hate hardwoods.