sycmore seeds

Picking up sycamore seedlings is an annual task in my garden. However, if they are getting into your gutters, is the tree too close to the house? Sycamore roots can punch through concrete foundations, so the minimum recommended distance from any building with foundations is five metres.

Its a dud theory.

Having previously lived at a house with sycamore in the garden, I hate them.

Fast growing, wide seeding, pain in the bum.

I would take the tree down, but freely admit to personal prejudice.

Cheers

Dave R

Ive taken two down. They still sprout from the stumps

In message snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com, fred snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com writes

Ha! These occasions must be rare or the world would be covered in Sycamores! In Southwold recently I chuckled as the carefully preserved Skillmans Hill grass is larded with Sycamore seedlings:-) Hand hoe is your friend.

When trees are distressed, they drop masses more seeds than usual. I think the idea is that, if the tree dies, at least it will have passed on its genes. We have had some very hot seasons recently, so maybe your sycamore has been distressed?

I get them in my gutters and back garden. The nearest sycamores (they are in a row) are at the bottom of the gardens of the houses on the opposite side of the road I live on (several hundred feet away).

It is debatable who they belong to, and they are rumoured to be subject to a tree order, so getting rid of them, which would be largely appreciated by many of those living close by is unlikely. Their only redeeming feature is that they provide a bit of a wind break when the north wind doth blow, sadly that usually means depositing the seeds in a wide area to the south of them (which means me).

Adrian.

Google the term "mast year".

Well don't plant 'em in your bum.

Bill

exactly :~-)