Ash Tree-Tables

Ash wood has a variety of different characters, mostly light with often a silky texture to the grain, but in the older denser wood, it turns darker, and in parts takes on a completely different colour and pattern known as “olive ash” because of it’s similarity to olive wood (see below) . Infact ash comes from the same family of trees as the olive. Rarer still are highly contrasting dark strands with an almost greeny colour.

Ash die-back is now widespread in our area of Norfolk, and it will cause a discolouration to the wood where it has been infected by the fungus, which discolours the wood a darker grey hue and ultimately renders the wood unusuable.