One of the most common native trees in Ireland the Ash tree is shortly due to be hit hard by the Ash dieback fungal pathogen. The Horse Chestnut (non native bu

One of the most common native trees in Ireland the Ash tree is shortly due to be hit hard by the Ash dieback fungal pathogen. The Horse Chestnut (non native but in place for several hundred years at lease and beautiful) is under threat too I believe. This coming not so long after the catastrophe that the Elm tree population suffered with Dutch Elm disease The sitka spruce forests are an abomination, nothing grows in them except sitka spruce, not even grass. They are also planted in rectangles that look jarring to the eye on hillsides, nothing natural looking about them at all.