On Jul 21, 8:52 pm, ~ jan wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:43:44 CST, Gill Passman

wrote:
We don't have the option of getting rid of the trees as they are on
council owned property (allotments) and even a request from a number of
neighbours to have them topped has gone unheeded. If the tree is on your
property which IIRC you have told me it is, then unless you are
especially attached to it as a tree, I would get rid of it.....

That is the plan, that's why it be girdled. DH took a chainsaw and removed
the bark in a band around the perimeter so it can't get water up, nor
nutrients down to the roots. This stops suckering. But big trees apparently
store LOTS of water.

It was suppose to be taken down before it leafed out, but DH didn't get to
it. So now I'm just waiting, either he'll get to it, or I'll win the lotto
and hire someone.

During winter I always used boards and window screening on the ponds, and
still will, but once this tree is down, it will cut our fall work more than
half. ~ jan
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Zone 7a, SE Washington State
Ponds:www.jjspond.us

We are in the woods, and I greatly sympathize with you. We have a
Flowering Poplar that has huge leaves, blossoms, and some kind of seed
pod that has these dagger like middles, and the seeds themselves have
a barb like thingy on 'em. That tree starts shedding at the end of
July and keeps it up thru fall. And that's just the leaves, it drops
all the aforementioned crap all year. And it's huge.
We also use window screening over the pond during fall, it is
unsightly, but keeps the pond clean. We have a bigger problem with
the poplar tree and the pool. It was dropping leaves in faster then I
could swim to them and get 'em out. Good exercise I guess!!

But the birds we watch and feed are worth it. We watched a hummer
just hovering in the sprinkler yesterday, and flying along to keep up
with it, then she sat on the fence to be in the water spray and shook
all off and went back into the spray again. It is very dry here in
DE. We've had loads of t-storms just north and south of us. The weeds
in the woods are wilting, that's always a sure sign of lack of water.
Have a wonderful week with your sister now that you don't have to
worry about your waterbabies!! Nan