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Whew. You need to start with a good stiff Manhattan. Your post is just crazy.
If I drank, I would probably take you up on that idea!
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How can you cut down the same tree twice?
The tree grows back from the stump.
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How can you be very good friends with people who, without telling you it was coming, cut down a tree on the line?
They have many endearing qualities. My husband has lived here for 35 years. He and the husband are good buddies. They golf, hunt, fish, etc., together. He knows my husband hated the tree too because it was thorny. What he didn't know is my husband liked everything else about the tree.
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If the tree they cut down is 'just going to grow back', what is the problem?
It takes over 10 years. Eventually it won't grow back. The mulberry tree eventually stopped after it was hacked back a zillion times.
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If there is a tree in your view, how can you have a worse view once the tree is gone?
The maple tree is one that grew from a misplaced seed. It's multi trunked and thin like a birch. It's off to one side. This other tree was bigger and overpowered the maple. There is a hole in the lilac bushes down low and a hole above it where the tree was located. The other tree is much smaller and over further on the property line.
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It is virtually impossible to kill a lilac.
Lilac leaves grow back very full each season--even in the summer after you trim them, although you lose the bloom the following spring. The idea that you were left permanently with bare branches is hard to fathom.
I'll take pictures. What happens to those lilacs is a crime.
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Go on the intardent and put in your criteria: sun loving, 12' tall, six feet wide, deer resistant, drought tolerant, etc., and get a list. Keep winnowing that list until you have a half dozen ideas. Then visit your nursery center to see what is available within your budget.
I'll do this. My budget is unlimited because that's how fed up I am.
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Finished that cocktail yet? May I have the cherry?
My husband has lived here for 35 years. He and the husband are good buddies. They golf, hunt, fish, etc., together. He knows my husband hated the tree too because it was thorny. What he didn't know is my husband liked everything else about the tree.
Ohhhhh........so when hubby gets home, at least half the household is going to be ecstatic.
(Sounds like the offending tree could have been a Washiongton Hawthrone?)
LOL It is kinda funny though. Close friends but you can't come to an agreement where they keep that stuff.
I know! What's worse is I think my husband was in cahoots! What's that say about my marriage?!?!
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Hope the landscaper can give you ideas, but it's going to be tough to get something that is an instant fix. Or at least expensive.
We're going to have to give up the walkway. My husband will be difficult about it because that will mean walking all the way around the other side of the patio to get to the mailbox. I know nothing will be an instant fix but it needs done. If I had done something 15 years ago when I wanted to, I wouldn't be having this problem today. My husband was against losing the walkway and I figured it wasn't a battle worth having. He understands that I have decided it is a battle worth having and he doesn't have a say this time. LOL
I just googled that. It's pretty and works for my hardiness zone. I hope the nursery has it. How fast does it grow?
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Ohhhhh........so when hubby gets home, at least half the household is going to be ecstatic.
He's more indifferent. I think he fears showing joy.
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(Sounds like the offending tree could have been a Washiongton Hawthrone?)
None of us know what type of tree it is, or rather WAS. I looked at google images of Washington Hawthrone. It can't be that because this tree didn't flower or have fruit.
I have nothing but sympathy for you Hope. My neighbor to the left has levelled two grand trees (one perfectly healthy) in the past year for no good reason. His back yard is now a complete eyesore. He just doesn't have any respect for nature or the environment. He works from home, but usually from his idling truck in the driveway (so he can run the heat or AC). Maybe he wants his young kids to develop asthma from the exhaust.
Meanwhile my neighbor to the right pressures me to take down one of my oak trees because she is inappropriatly terrified that it will come down on her house during a storm. I have all my trees looked-at by a professional annually and he says it is safe and sound.
This is in a neighborhood made nice in large part because of the trees... so it's a sore subject. Anyway, good luck with your situation...
OMG Hopes Bulldog was KIDDING. Please know this was a big joke of his. Red Tips are prone to all sorts of diseases and problems. PLEASE DON'T
and Bulldogdad---shame on you. Not everybody gets your jokes . Now go in the corner and say 100 times "I will never recommend red tips again".
Just remember Hopes, anything which is touted as fast growing is also short lived so don't fall for it. They usually are weak stemmed and not worth having.
I learned long ago to NOT depend on the neighbors' plantings for my enjoyment.
They can do whatever they want with their landscaping... after all, it IS their yard.
We have altered our yards to have what we want.
Sorry you are gong through this though....
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