Protect Local Trees From Damaging Ties

Join the national campaign to encourage the public to check for strangling tree-ties. 

There could be tens of thousands of these strangled-on-stake trees across the UK, and probably many more, in multiple landownerships and urban locations: from local streets, parks, business and public/private housing estates to large retail car parks and private front gardens.

Whether they have been abandoned or there is no understanding that these stakes and ties should have been removed after 3-5 years (once the trees have established), the net result is still the same: countless trees will fail to establish and achieve the landscape and ecosystem benefits for which they were planted: and many could even die.

How To Spot a Strangling Tree-tie

·         Is the tree-tie frayed or are the posts rotten?

·         Are you aware that the tree was planted more than three years ago?

·         Is the tree-tie overly tight and very difficult to move by hand?

·         Is the trunk bulging above or below the tree-tie?

Poster: https://fund4trees.org.uk/strangling-tree-ties/

What To Do

Make contact with the owner of the tree – this may be a homeowner, a local council, a highways authority or a management company. Advise them of the issue and suggest to them that they investigate with a view to removing or adjusting the tree-tie. When appropriate, the owner of the tree may appreciate an offer of help. You may just be saving that tree.

Find Out More at Fund4Trees

Local resident Russell Ball, and founder of the registered charity Fund4Trees said:

“This is an important national public-engagement campaign to mobilise efforts within local communities to find these abandoned on-stake trees and help save them from their strangling ties.”

Russell’s important work on this campaign has been featured in the RHS magazine. Find out more about protecting trees by clicking the link to his website below.