In article , Victoria
Clare writes
Kay Easton wrote in
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Am I the only person who likes trees in towns? It's OK for you country
dwellers with your huge or isolated gardens, but however much any of us
would like to live in the country, the majority of jobs are in the
towns, and so most of us live in towns. And towns can so easily be
walls, roofs, walls and more walls, with no greenery above eye level.

You are quite right - and town trees should be grown and kept, even if at
some inconvenience.

Whew! I was beginning to think I was the only one in step ;-)

But I do think evergreens are often particularly hated because they cut
out the light so completely, and all year round.

Is it perhaps from their use of hedges where they become a rectangle of
plain green - none of the shape and texture you expect from trees? then
the rest follows - drastic pruning at one side to leave bare trunks, use
as a weapon in neighbour wars, so eventually it's impossible to look at
even a lone conifer with any favour?

I was thinking a nice ornamental crabapple instead might be just the job ?

Variety is the spice of life. Have you ever looked at a 60's estate with
what I recall being described on Gardener's Question Time as Prunus
bloody ****ardii in nearly every garden?


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Kay Easton

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