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"Toni" wrote:

- [whining mode] New neighbors next door- to the west.
- Their first week in they've cut down a *beautiful* 30 year old Black Olive
- tree that shaded my entire front garden- full of shade plants. Anthuriums,
- calatheas, ferns, teeny little gems that I had cherished for years in
- containers before putting them in the ground.
- That garden is only one year old- and now I am having to reorganize the
- whole darn thing. Plants are wilting faster than I can transplant them.
-
- And I thought our town had an ordinance against this sort of thing without a
- permit- guess that explains the city trucks I've seen stopping to take
- photos of the stump three times now.
- Would I be evil to hope they get fined?
-
- And I know about Black Olive maintenance issues- I have one. But had they
- bothered to live here a while before killing trees they'd have noticed that
- *we* always keep their walkways pressure cleaned- husband just can't seem to
- stop once he gets going.
- Not feeling too good about my new neighbors right now. [/whining mode]


Some people just hate trees. When I was a kid my step-father cut down a
beautiful weeping willow tree in our backyard. Later, after I moved out,
he cut down the tree in the front yard, too.
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