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Sacha[_1_] · 04-12-2006, 11:25 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 4/12/06 18:35, in article , "K"
wrote:

"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" writes
I am probably the odd one out but I see nothing wrong with planting a
tree you like and accepting that it will have to be removed long before
maturity. There are plenty of wonderful examples of Araucaria around
here which will eventually have to go. Even the most modest British
trees are probably unsuitable for the average garden but they do enjoy
a 20/30 year life before the chop. Must go now -I need to check the
Sequoia:-)

No, you're not. I've argued this line on urg before.

I don't see it's much different from growing hedges - better, perhaps,
to let a tree have a few years of freedom, than to keep it 'cooped up'
at 6ft high for ever ;-)

Why grow it at all, if only for personally selfish reasons? Would we grow
oaks to act as windbreaks, only to remove them to allow the laurels planted
inside them to take over? Trees are not animals in the sense of allowing
them 'a few years of freedom'. Many trees live for a very, very much longer
time than any animal, including the human and IMO, should be planted with
that in mind.
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