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Trees need to be kept in context with the size of garden and surrounding area, unfortunately too many people just let them get out of hand.
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This.
Think I posted about the birch trees in our garden?
We're in a Berlin city 5 stories house with a garden that's next to an even bigger green back garden. Owners had the old and incompetent tenant do the garden like forever, and maybe have someone in with no idea.
There's two nice, maybe 30-40 year old birch trees. No one did maintenance on them, until two weeks ago. Tree guy gives them max 5 years, said if he had intervened a few years ago they would be good for way longer. -
For sure. The tree at the back was taller than the neighbouring houses and blocked all daylight for half the day.
Beautiful as it was, it was twice as big as would be maximum size. The lowest point of the canopy was too high, and the trunk spurred too low to raise the crown. What’s more, it was totally invisible behind the other trees until they came down.
This one certainly had roots undermining everything nearby. The ground wasn’t even flat around it.
c.h.e.
pdlouche
Before/after for when we moved in early last month, and how far the chainsaw has got us.
You can see the start to the bedding on the right, but need a stump grinder before we can plant in earnest.