With the Ash tree being the third most popular tree in the UK and now with this fungal pathogen spreading through the country at an alarming rate, the damage to our Ash trees is looking to be on par with the Dutch Elm Disease in the 1970’s. Chalara dieback of ash is a fungal pathogen which attacks the leaves of ash trees, causing an infection which spreads from the leaf through the shoots and twigs and into the tree, causing lesions and tissue death. 

The decline poses a risk to landowners for both public safety and deterioration of woodland cover and the ecological, social and economic benefits these woodlands provide. In turn, this is creating problems for forestry, woodland managers land owners and local estates as well as causing problems for public safety in parks and on public highways, with many ash trees lining our roads.

What we offer is a professional approach to deal with the problem. With our modern equipment we can safely dismantle trees mechanically by the road side or in a wood. We can also help you market the wood afterwards, and with help from our grant team we can assist you in securing the right grants for replanting. 

• Dark lesions – often long, thin and diamond-shaped – appear on the trunk at the base of dead side shoots
• In late summer and early autumn (July to October), small white fruiting bodies can be found on blackened leaf stalks.
• The tips of shoots become black and shriveled
• Blackened, dead leaves – may look a bit like frost damage
• The veins and stalks of leaves, normally pale in colour, turn brown
• Saplings have dead tops and side shoots
• In mature trees, dieback of twigs and branches in the crown, often with bushy growth further down the branches where new shoots have been produced