"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 5/12/06 00:15, in article , "Rupert
(W.Yorkshire)"
wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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snip 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.


But we do grow most, if not all, things for selfish reasons. Vegetables
don't stand a chance before they get noshed.
Taking your example to extremes we would never remove any shrub,tree or
perennial or even a weed.
We manage our gardens and plots and as such we do interfere with nature.
"Working with nature" -perhaps,maybe,sometimes but usually not.


I suppose I belong to the "plant trees for future generations" school of
thought. And even though it's sometimes necessary, I feel real sadness
when
I see a tree being felled. I could never plant a tree telling myself it's
just a temporary arrangement. We're getting some dieback in some of the
older trees in our garden, like the beeches, which is my favourite tree.
I
dread the day we're told any of them have to come down and hope most
sincerely I won't be around to see it happen!

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/


Well if it's any consolation once a tree has been planted around here and
attained either 2m in height or a girth of not much then the tree
preservation man gets involved . He is of your school of thought and will
make you underpin foundations before allowing anything to be chopped. A very
nice man but not to be messed with.
About now the tree surgeon man comes to remove dead wood from one huge beech
(having got permission from the tpo people). I am reliably informed the tree
is dying but will it will be towards the end of this century before it will
be a goner.
When something eventually goes it is a grand opportunity for a re-design.
(Memories of Kew and the great storm)