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Originally Posted by treeseer  quercus I understand your reasons except:How does this suffocation take place?
If you are spiking a tree to remove it, vines can hold up a climber if you spike right into the vine, at least english ivy is very strong. I know you are not spiking to prune, since Belgian have the reputation of being good arborists!
Vines in trees can be maintained to cause the trees no problem. More work, true, but what is wrong with that?
here in the se usa, morning glory blue or pink does not climb more than 3m, and lantana is a valued subshrub, not a vine. |
I'm a dutch guy so excuse me if I can't always find the right words or form the right way of saying it correctly...
of course I'm not pruning with spikes. I find it rather difficult because of the facts MDVADEN said.
Suffocation might not be the right word. I've seen several cases of a Wisteria branch strangle a thick branch off of a green beech for example... The vines wraps around the branch and because of the fact that they become thicker in time they cut off juice circulation to ultimately weaken and strangle that branch. These words may be more accurate...
To say it in a few words... I think that vines and other climbing plants are a real threat to the health of a tree.