On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:28:04 -0400, Dan Espen
wrote:

Higgs Boson writes:

On Jun 19, 1:52*am, Jason Burke
wrote:
Hi. Converting a tree stump into a planter is one of the best way to
decorate your garden. It's beneficial also, because the new plants will
get all sorts of nutrition from the dead tree. Nowadays, more & more
people are using dead tree stump as planters. By this, we can reuse the
dead tree, can decorate our garden & grow more plants.

--
Jason Burke

But isn't it challenging to hollow out the stump? Or am I not getting
it...?

HB

If the tree died, it might rot from the inside and
leave a hollow stump.

In my experience that's pretty rare and even rarer that such a stump
will be suitable for use as a planter, those would be very old and
large trees that when cut down are so unevenly rotted it's best to
completely remove them. And an old tree doesn't need to have died to
be rotted inside... last year I cut down a huge silver maple in a
hedgerow that was still very much alive but so rotted on one side that
it was unsafe. Every winter after a heavy snow I spot trees that have
recently fallen in the woods, they'd be slanted and held up by healthy
trees nearby, but with snow on their trunk they stick out like a sore
thumb. In most cases such trees are best left to rot on their own, it
can be very dangerous taking a chainsaw to such a precariously
balanced tree, with those leaning so they'd fall in an open area that
I mow I mark with surveyer's tape to remind me to stay away and wait
till they fall, they rarely make a second winter. Once on the ground
they become cord wood... I have two birch that I just marked last
week.