Katra spake as minus
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I only cut one, and intend to cut no more... Only the back yard is used
for gardening. The entire front yard is shaded by beautiful trees, and
I've encouraged an additional baby Hackberry in the driveway that is
growing up big and beatiful now! It started from a seed and is now about
10" across at the trunk and beginning to provide some decent shade for
the cars. :-)

Like I said, it took me a couple of years to psych myself into removing
that tree. I don't take it lightly, but my yard needed some sunlight.
Really.

Katra


Glad to hear it.

I myself like Arizona ash; they grow fast, are very drought tolerant and
look sort of like oak trees.

I actually go around my neighborhood and stealth plant trees. The trick is
to put a brick right at the base of it set into the dirt so a mower or
bicyclist will see it and avoid it; most people being too lazy will not
pick up one brick but just avoid it. They call me Mapanari Appleseed
around here.

I look at those prairie shit boxes built 1999-2003 with no trees and you
can spit into your nieghbor's kitchen from yours, and shudder.
I'd rather live on a big lot with with fewer bedrooms (heavily
soundproofed) than those two story shitboxes on tiny lots, for the same
price.

Lots of other people feel the same way, foreclosures rates are at a high
and most of them are those prairie shitboxes. No trees, no neighborhood,
assholes for neighbors, no privacy, no quality, no community, you have
nothing invested and so it makes sense to just walk away from those badly
made pieces of shit.

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