conker tree in a back garden?

[ColJack]

I have been offered a 2 foot tall conker tree.

I have a fairly long garden, but as we're on a hill, the neighbours to the rear ( ie next street over ) are a full level below us ( ie our ground floor is roughlu level with their first floor )..

my garden drops about 3 feet over it's length, then the neighbours drops considerably more and a lot steeper..

for this reason I'm guessing it's a bad idea to put a conker tree at the far end of the garden.. I forsee problems in the future ( I could always claim it was the previous owner or squirrels or kids did it I suppose... )

any advice?

 

[gregers]

yeah plant away,lol.i have heard that conker trees are getting rare,as they have been hit by some kind of disease?

 

[Deluks]

2 foot! It'll be many years before it causes any problems. Is there a retaining wall or a bank between levels? If a bank then the root system will help stabilise it. If a wall then it could cause probs unless the wall is hefty, these are long term predictions of course.

Gregers, you not thinking of Dutch Elm disease?

 

[ColJack]

no it's some fungal thing that causes rust coloured "sores" on the trees that "bleed" dark red stuff all down the trunk..

 

[snico]

I heard they are being attacked by a certain type of moth. My sister had a pretty large conker tree and the leaves turned brown well before autumn. Turns out it was a type of moth that did it