FireBrick said:

I never thought my fir tree would get this tall and wide...in my lifetime.

Is it a fir? Or, is it a Picea pungens?


I have a large ring of colored stone under the tree, but it's grown wider
than the ring.

Did you not expect the tree to grow? =)


So the needles have killed the lawn.

Is it losing an unusual amount of needles, compared to its history?


No way I'm cutting or pruning this tree back. Wife would prune
me...painfully.

As well, she should. =)


So....is there a variety of grass that will survive even if the needles
fall.

Why not just mulch the tree out to the dripline? That's really best for the
tree, anyway.


I've always sucked the needles up with the mover, but can't get them all.

Are you sure the tree doesn't have some sort of pest?


It's not a big area,

It's bigger than a "large ring of colored stone"!

so I guess resodding isn't a killer.

I thought the tree was the killer? This is all so confusing.

But hate to have to do it each spring.

And, most likely you will.

The lower branches of P. pungens drag the ground. Why would you want to try
and grow grass there? =) You hacked off the lower branches, didn't you.

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