"K" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher writes

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There is the point that we're just outside a conservation area, if we were
across the street we'd have to have permission to cut any tree down.

Any tree over a certain size, surely?

I don't know. We've cut down a huge ash, a large white poplar, two very tall
Lombardy poplars and a rampant eucalyptus (all of which are very unsuitable
for a small garden) without asking for permission. Perhaps this confession
will put my head on the block :-)

Then there's the leylandi ... I don't want to cut that because it provides
shelter and dry Earth for dust baths for the hens and is home to very many
wild birds. An avian skyscraper apartment block!

Mary