In message , Steve
Wolstenholme writes
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:43:35 -0000, "shazzbat"
wrote:

When I was stationed in Germany we used to see rows of Xmas trees, taller at
one end of the row than the other. Apparently this is due to a custom of
planting out their tree year after year.

That's what I did on a local lake bank. The row got to five trees. The
tallest was about 15 foot high. Then some development company bought
the land and removed the whole row. That was about ten years ago and
nothing has "developed" because they can't get permission. It seems my
trees could be removed without permission.


If they bought the land surely they were their trees once they'd done
so?
--
Chris French