Paddock shade (tree question)

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Just a bit of advice please ref planting a tree.
Wat to put something in on the junction of 3 paddocks. Am able to fence off equine demolishers

Obvously I dont want poisonous, neither do I want oak (got enough of them on 1 boundary!).
Dont want evergreen...I think....

So suggestions for horse-friendly tree type, reasonably quick growing if poss.
Part sandy soil (tho its good lami growing grass area!)

All ideas welcomed

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Anyone?

 

[martlin]

Silver birch? an ash? I know nothing about trees, but thought I would say something

 

[Penny Less]

Dont think you can get quick growing trees, unless its leylandii! You can get quick growing hedges .

 

[Brightbay]

Ours seem to love ash and beech, to doze underneath on warm days, shelter from rain and to nibble. Both make nice big trees with shady canopies (but not today or tomorrow ).

They like the young birch leaves too, and will nibble ash twigs and ash "fronds". As far as I know, there are no problems associated with ash seeds or beech nuts - I know acorns are problematic, so wouldn't plant oak.

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Thank you all for suggestions - I had thought of birch originally.
However, have got a few hornbeam saplings & also blackthorn...

Will see what takes I think & I'll lob in a few saplings, at least its just the donkey work & no cash to throw at them

 

[Merlin11]

my horses love hawthorn trees - they eat from them too!

 

[FairyLights]

Hazel,quick growing and can be coppiced to become multi stemmed.
Ash is also quite quick,and my horses really enjoy eating the falling autumn leaves off ther ash trees.
silver birch,hawthorn,midlandsthorn,poplar. Blackthorn is good in a hedge but it suckers freely and if you or the horse get a thorn in your skin it can turn very nasty .

 

[Rob Lakeside]

Hornbeam or carpinus is your best bet.

Holly but evergreen

Box but slow and will take years.

Cotoneaster like waterii or any large leafed and good berries.

Sorbus good berries or mountain ash

then we have maritime plants like senecio Escallonia and eucaliptus all can be annually trimmed
and all horse friendly
Rob

 

[Brightbay]

Our field hedge is blackthorn and hawthorn. The horses eat the sloes from the blackthorn every autumn We try to get there first (for the sloe gin) but the bushes are often stripped by the time we get there.

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Give the Woodland Trust a ring or Forestry Commission.

 

[Enfys]

Box but slow and will take years.

Rob

Not this sort of box which is poisonous then?

http://www.candyapplefarm.com/boxwood_is_toxic_and_potentially.htm

 

[hairycob]

I wouldn't plant eucalyptuus at the moment if you are in drought area - they are very, very thirsty. The portugese are busy grubbing up plantations for that reason.

 

[Rob Lakeside]

Try these then!

Acers or mapels like norway mapel,
Their are various varigated leafed decorative norway types and these will not have sticky aphids sap in the summer.

Tilia x Euclorus again no aphids in summer.

Ginko biloba or fossel tree

Nothofagus or southen beech

Liriodendron tulifera or tulip tree

liquid amber

How about Magnolia solangianum

Birch as stated earlier for sandy soils and a multy stemed veriety looks tip top.

Popular and salix or willows for wet soils.

Eucalyptus for dry soils
R