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My neighbour has a lovely big black poplar. Last night a big old
branch dropped out of hte sky and squashed my garden:

The poplar family is notorious for falling branches, for some reason they
become brittle as they age.

If it were mine I'd cut off all the large branches and perhaps even the
trunk. It's a shame but a person might be standing under the next one and it
might be the owner!

Mary