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Old 01-01-2008, 09:38 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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;768016 Wrote:
On 30 Dec, 13:17, redg wrote:-
My Oxford home is let. It has a very small triangular back garden
with
two lelandiis in the corner, one very very tall and one slightly
shorter.-

It's time to bite the bullet, call (more than one) tree surgeon to get
a price for complete removal.

It's not worth buggering about trying to save money when an accident
could be nasty.


So you all reckon I should get it done, but no comments about the
undergound structural damage where the roots have reached. That's my
big worry.




--
redg

If you are on clay worry, but otherwise if not showing signs of cracks
now and you have them down you should be fine. Even on clay the sooner
they are removed the less likely you are to get "heave" after.
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea