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YorkshireLass

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Just when I thought I'd settled down...!
Laburnum over fence
« on: September 13, 2017, 07:45:44 pm »
Fencing a new field, noticed a neighbour's laburnum tree overhanging. Obviously it's all poisonous, but how palatable is it? We will have a legal right to trim back the overhanging branches, but is it something we should think about moving the fence away from (out of reach)? Thinking of seeds dropping into grass / hay...

sheeponthebrain

  • Joined Feb 2016
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Re: Laburnum over fence
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2017, 06:25:46 am »
Our cattle regularly from back the laburnum  trees in a neighbouring garden.  They've been there 30 years now and no ill affects

YorkshireLass

  • Joined Mar 2010
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Re: Laburnum over fence
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2017, 11:29:37 am »
Mmm that's interesting.


I generally go with "if there is enough food, they know not to eat poisonous stuff", but that sort of nuance is lacking in general info.


I reckon we see where the fenceline naturally falls then trim back the really overhanging bits?

sheeponthebrain

  • Joined Feb 2016
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Re: Laburnum over fence
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2017, 12:36:55 pm »
Sorry I was dreaming  when i read and wrote that message. I was thinking leylandi not laburnum :innocent: :thinking:

YorkshireLass

  • Joined Mar 2010
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Re: Laburnum over fence
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2017, 04:21:12 pm »

 

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