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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| Title: | Trees on the golf course |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 66, 1990, p. 188-189. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "Our club is interested in implementing a tree planting programme around the course. You would probably describe our course as parkland although relatively open, supporting heathland vegetation on higher ground. What type of trees would you recommend that we plant?" |
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| Answer/Response: | "Look at species present in the native landscape in and around the course when considering which species to plant. These will be the species best able to withstand our climate and best suited to the underlying ground conditions. Areas of heathland support few trees, possibly the odd scrub oak and volunteer birch. If you want to maintain the heather restrict tree planting to the lowland areas of the course, heathland can rapidly be overrun by invading scrub so positive management is needed to preserve such an environment, usually achieved by topping of the heather in 2-3 year cycles and scrub clearance. In areas of the course more suited to tree planting you might use a mixture of species such as birch and Scots pine, together with slower growing but longer living deciduous species like oak, ash, beech and hornbeam. It is important to plant stands of different tree species of varying life expectancy and growth rate, the faster growing nursing those which are slower to establish. Planting monocultures will not only be less interesting but you may find that all the trees die at around the same time, either through disease or because they have reached the end of their life-span. There is, obviously, more to tree selection and planting than meets the eye, and for additional guidance you can consult the STRI golf course ecologist. If you are planning large scale tree planting you may be entitled to financial aid in the form of grants, the Forestry Commission, at Headquarters, 231 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh, EH12 7AT will be able to advise on this matter." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Problem diagnosis; Recommendations; Tree planting; Trees
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Sports Turf Research Institute. 1990. Trees on the golf course. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 66:p. 188-189. |
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