Hello from kent :)

[Rich]

Hardly a problem for your situation Steve, but they do seem to attract the attention of deer too. A nurseryman friend of mine had his deer fencing breached a couple of times. He had a row of about 30 wild service trees which are now about 6 years old. Nearly all of them had their bark surface marked, fortunately not ring barked. I managed to get one which escaped the deers attention to use as a standard for a hedge I've just finished planting.

It has quite a lean to it so I am considering trying to persuade it to grow more upright with a webbing strap attached to the end post.

[stevem099]

Little update.
Springs here and the trees doing great really nice to see it going through its cycles and the girlfreind sends me regular tree updates
Just wanted to say thanks again to everyone who helped espicially oldclaypaws for suggesting a wild service tree in the first place
Cheers steve