conker season

[MauriceMynah]

Snuggtopz,

Would that be a "no strings" contract?

[ranworthbreeze]

Hello Jill,

A few years ago I would have been able to help out with the conkers, we had a tree on the grass verge outside of house, sadly it was felled about five years ago by the local autorities due to it having "Bleeding Canker".

A lot of trees have gone to the above but I have just found the following information, please see below.

'Bleeding canker' was brought into the country around 20 years ago from Asia.

Now around half the horse chestnut trees in the country are infected and thousands have had to be felled, including ancient specimens on National Trust land.

Arboriculturalists had feared the disease, that causes the trees to 'bleed' from lesions on the trunk, could kill all horse chestnuts in Britain.

But a new study published in the online journal PLoS One offers hope.

Dr David Studholme and his team at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich managed to work out the genome sequence of the bacteria that causes the disease. This should enable scientists to identify which genes are killing the trees and eventually find a cure.

Regards

Alan

[jillR]

thanks for that alan

i hope they find a cure quickly

our trees and bees are not having much luck

jill

[Guest]

Snuggtopz,

Would that be a "no strings" contract?

hehe nice..