Suzanne D. wrote:
We have several large shade trees in our yard. Around the trees,
numerous small thin roots are exposed. They are from
pencil-thickness to a couple of inches, and they tend to come up,
lay flat over the ground (or slightly elevated from the ground) for
5-10 inches, then go back down. This makes it very difficult to
mow the lawn (grass is growing between the roots).

Can someone tell me the feasibility of any of these ideas:

1. Removing the exposed roots. If so, how?
2. Re-sodding. Would this be terribly expensive? Would I have to
do it to the whole lawn, or just the rooty areas?
3. Giving up that part of the lawn and planting big circles of
wildflowers around the trees.
4. Anything I am missing?

Thanks in advance.
--S.

There isn't much you can do. The tree will most likely suck up all the
water and flowers won't grow and they will be in the shade of the tree
anyhow and if you flood them with water it would probably kill the tree.

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8b
Sunset Zone 5