"La Puce" wrote in message

We had to fell our eucalyptus a couple of month ago. It broke my
heart. It had fallen on the next door house in the storms, because the
canopy had eventually reached and passed over the houses roofs and the
wind just took hold of it.

A lot of the eucalypts tend not to have a very deep root systems anyway and
tend to fall over at the drop of a hat.

I must admit that I can't understand the British obsession with eucalypts.
I wouldn't have one as close to my house as I see in the British mags or as
you have shown in your pics. Lovely trees, but paddock or shelter belt
planting only IMHO. And if you've ever seen one growing out of a crack in
a rock, or going off like a bomb in a bushfire, you'd know why I don't like
them close to a house or structure or giving a path for a fire to run in to
a house or shed.