I’d have planted them in the garden years ago if I knew we’d be staying here, but if we moved I was hoping to take them with us - may sound daft but there are sentimental reasons at play.
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I understand.
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Out of curiosity, have you had a firm diagnosis of bacterial infection? What treatment would you use? I’m not aware of any, other than cutting out infected wood and burning it. Some fungal infections have very similar symptoms too.
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It’s part of the plan. I live nearby Wageningen University which has developed a treatment. They do the analysis in a lab, another company does the treatment and once done, they do another test.
The treatment is basically a ‘jacket’ for the tree which stays on 42 deg Celsius for 48 hours. This kills the bacteria. I noticed the infection last year for the first time and after the hot summer weeks getting close to 40 deg I had the impression that the infection reduced.
(In Dutch, but I’m sure google can help you)
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Bless
What is it?
Looks like a hedgehog
So they’re found all over Europe, for some strange reason I thought they were only in the UK. Stupid Aussies. 
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Yes. Since we bought our house I’ve every year seen hedgehogs. We are doing a major garden renovation and it’s great to see that even now there is one.
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I guess we think there’s not much wildlife left in mainland Europe. It’s nice to have wild in your yard imo it connects you to something greater.
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We put two hedgehog houses in our gardens,for the last couple of years we’ve had one regular visitor,but over this last winter we’ve witnessed upto three hogs.
We’ve also set up wildlife cameras and a security “ live” camera which has filmed two males doing battle over the one female. Only one of the houses has been occupied,but we have caught them mating,so possibly we might see some hoglets shortly.
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We have them in our garden occasionally as well.
Really ?
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We don’t have any 'roos but most other things - Deer, wild boar, coypu, stoats, weasel,fox, badger, Hedgehogs, dormouse that live in trees, squirrels, pine marten and field marten, hare around here but few rabbits. That’s just within a few hundred yards of me. Further afield a few wolves up in the mountains. Lots of birds of prey red and black kites, snake and golden eagle, kestrel, buzzards etc. Most unusual to me is this fella
Not something we see in the UK.
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What is that, what weird looking bird.
My post re wildlife was a little tongue in cheek but it does surprise me that you have all those critters so close.
It’s a Hoopoe
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We are lucky here, second least populated area in France. Bird is a Hoopoe, common in Europe apparently. Not very social so you hear them more than see them and they are loud sounding something like a cuckoo. They eat a poisonous caterpillar which we have on some of our pine trees so we get to see them particularly at this time of year as the caterpillars move down the trunk of the trees where they have spent the winter, and crawl in a long snake like line in to holes in the ground to form chrysalis and eventually emerge later in the year as moths.
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My beloved acer survived the big chop. Was worried I left it too late. I may take more next year
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Kk
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Congratulations to Australia - you’re through to the Eurovision final!
Nodded off on the sofa watching the political Question Time show last night - when I woke at around 5am I saw Hannah Waddingham was one of the hosts for the second heat on iPlayer - I’ll now definitely be watching:
Those hips, blimey! If looks could kill…
Beats gardening 
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