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valis2My poor sister and Husband have heard this rant quite a bit for months. They're both sick of it, so now you have to hear it. heh.
Our property is about an acre and a half. About half an acre is taken up with pondage and some of the opposite shore of the pond. Our house, like most houses here in MI that have swampy stuff near them, is set up on a hill that is level with the road, and then it slopes down in the back to the pond.
If I had to take a guess, I'd say that when Husband's grandmother and grandfather came into full possession of the property sixteen years ago, either all existing vegetation (including trees) was flattened by them or just before they took possession. There is only one set of trees on the property that existed before they started building. It's a stand of huge maple trees and a beechnut tree.
Their neighbor (on both sides) planted creepy pine tree barriers the entire length of both property lines. Yes, he owned both pieces of property. Long story. Anyway, the pine tree barricades are quite tall now. I actually like them because I am antisocial.
So the remaining trees were planted on the property by Husband's grandmother and grandfather. I believe, though, that it mostly came from the grandmother.
One thing I have is a deeprooted (pardon the pun) love of trees. Like, huge. I love trees so much and I absolutely adore them. To cut down a tree is a horror. I mean, if it's dead, it's understandable, but if it's not, it makes me horribly sad.
So now that I've lived here for a few months, I've gotten a little troubled over the tree placement on the property.
All of the trees are either placed a) too close to each other, or b) randomly, or c) both. There was no foresight whatsoever given to how big they would get and what would happen in the future. It's only been sixteen years, and I can already see that we are going to have to pay for major tree removal in the future. Now, that is the sort of thing you expect with naturally placed trees, but when you've placed them yourself--bwuh?!
An example. We have three low-growing, wide-branching trees (I can't remember what they're called, only that they're from the east coast) on the north side of the property. They're hella-cool climbing trees. Except all three are planted in a line, hellaclose to each other. AND too close to the pine tree wall, which had been planted just before they moved in. So now they are interfering with each other, and the pine trees. The middle tree will need to be removed, at the very least, which just makes me want to cry, because they're so beautiful.
There's a hawthorne tree in the backyard which is falling over and will most likely have to be removed.
There's a river birch which was planted so close to the pine trees (you can see it in my pond pics) that it, too, will at least have to be trimmed. It's starting to cause damage to the pine next to it. Also, it blocks the best view of the pond. If it had been planted on the left side instead it would be so much nicer.
Instead, on the left side there is a random assortment of flowering trees and a giant bush of doom. One tree is now dead, and another tree is cracked and dying. Both will have to be removed.
Up front we have a two locust trees and an apple tree. The apple tree is too sheltered by the other trees and needs more light.
There are three small maple trees planted near the road. There's a ditch next to the road, and they are right at the top of side of the ditch closest to the house, and they're too close to each other. Plus, they're not really that great as privacy trees. Their placement really makes me scratch my head.
So the electric company wants to string lines in front of our property, and we've signed the paperwork, and they're taking out those three maple trees. I would have had to have one of them removed, at the very least. So this makes me ecstatic, because now I can plant my own antisocial pine tree fence next spring. hooray!!
And that tells you everything you need to know about how annoyed I am by the tree placement: that I am actually excited about tree removal is pretty much unprecedented.
Our property is about an acre and a half. About half an acre is taken up with pondage and some of the opposite shore of the pond. Our house, like most houses here in MI that have swampy stuff near them, is set up on a hill that is level with the road, and then it slopes down in the back to the pond.
If I had to take a guess, I'd say that when Husband's grandmother and grandfather came into full possession of the property sixteen years ago, either all existing vegetation (including trees) was flattened by them or just before they took possession. There is only one set of trees on the property that existed before they started building. It's a stand of huge maple trees and a beechnut tree.
Their neighbor (on both sides) planted creepy pine tree barriers the entire length of both property lines. Yes, he owned both pieces of property. Long story. Anyway, the pine tree barricades are quite tall now. I actually like them because I am antisocial.
So the remaining trees were planted on the property by Husband's grandmother and grandfather. I believe, though, that it mostly came from the grandmother.
One thing I have is a deeprooted (pardon the pun) love of trees. Like, huge. I love trees so much and I absolutely adore them. To cut down a tree is a horror. I mean, if it's dead, it's understandable, but if it's not, it makes me horribly sad.
So now that I've lived here for a few months, I've gotten a little troubled over the tree placement on the property.
All of the trees are either placed a) too close to each other, or b) randomly, or c) both. There was no foresight whatsoever given to how big they would get and what would happen in the future. It's only been sixteen years, and I can already see that we are going to have to pay for major tree removal in the future. Now, that is the sort of thing you expect with naturally placed trees, but when you've placed them yourself--bwuh?!
An example. We have three low-growing, wide-branching trees (I can't remember what they're called, only that they're from the east coast) on the north side of the property. They're hella-cool climbing trees. Except all three are planted in a line, hellaclose to each other. AND too close to the pine tree wall, which had been planted just before they moved in. So now they are interfering with each other, and the pine trees. The middle tree will need to be removed, at the very least, which just makes me want to cry, because they're so beautiful.
There's a hawthorne tree in the backyard which is falling over and will most likely have to be removed.
There's a river birch which was planted so close to the pine trees (you can see it in my pond pics) that it, too, will at least have to be trimmed. It's starting to cause damage to the pine next to it. Also, it blocks the best view of the pond. If it had been planted on the left side instead it would be so much nicer.
Instead, on the left side there is a random assortment of flowering trees and a giant bush of doom. One tree is now dead, and another tree is cracked and dying. Both will have to be removed.
Up front we have a two locust trees and an apple tree. The apple tree is too sheltered by the other trees and needs more light.
There are three small maple trees planted near the road. There's a ditch next to the road, and they are right at the top of side of the ditch closest to the house, and they're too close to each other. Plus, they're not really that great as privacy trees. Their placement really makes me scratch my head.
So the electric company wants to string lines in front of our property, and we've signed the paperwork, and they're taking out those three maple trees. I would have had to have one of them removed, at the very least. So this makes me ecstatic, because now I can plant my own antisocial pine tree fence next spring. hooray!!
And that tells you everything you need to know about how annoyed I am by the tree placement: that I am actually excited about tree removal is pretty much unprecedented.
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Date: 2009-11-06 06:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-11-06 11:28 pm (UTC)So true! My father is an arborist, and when I was a kid, he used to embarass me by trespassing in people's yards to look at their diseased trees.