Holm Oaks Take Over allong the South Coast

The Mediterranean Look
Evergreen woods reaching down to white beaches.  You might be easily mistaken, for thinking this is a view from the foothills above Dubrovnik, in Croatia, or perhaps somewhere along the coast of either Spain or Portugal; but no!  This is Poole in Dorset and apart from Holly; these woods have none of our native trees at all!  What's going on here?

Every park, every woods or heath; the same bland mixture of non-native evergreens.

I don't think I have ever seen a part of the UK so besieged with foreign weeds.  It is so bad that Beech and Hazel actually seem to have become extinct in this part of the South coast.  How could they let it get this bad?

Control of Holm Oaks
As you can see, from these England supporting tree stumps; the local authorities here have been making some puny efforts to control this problem.

If they have been doing it right; they should have cut them down in the growing season and then roughed up the stumps a bit, to give the maximum wounded surface area and then painted on some tree poison. 

They have certainly painted them, but as far as poisoning them goes; they really do seem to have done a very poor job here and not made any effort at all anywhere else.

As you can see  here, from this left caption; the stumps quickly regrow and in only a few years, the canopy will reform and the sunlight will again be swamped out.

There are seemingly no native trees left here to recolonise this area.  Removing these evergreens would leave Poole with no trees. 

Perhaps doing one bit at a time and replanting each bit with native trees.

Whatever way this problem is tackled; the authorities have a big job to do here & a job which gets bigger and bigger the longer they sit there and do nothing.

Below; the view from the beach, shows how wide spread the problem is:

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