Almost two years ago, here, I wrote a tongue in cheek piece about a
sort of NHS for gardens.
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.re...dbe3b eb41741

An article in the RHS The Garden magazine around that time about
gardens being lost to cars and built-on urbanisation got me thinking
about putting a $ or £ value on gardens, especially as, at the time,
our Birch tree was doing it's autumnal thing.

Back then, our neighbour of the time was not complaining. (since
deceased RIP) However, times have changed and this year we've had 2
complaints concerning it's leaves and flowers blowing into their
gardens.

back in 2006, part of what I wrote (the *** spells out the really
tongue in cheek bit, this time round) was;


"Imagine an alternate world were the values of gardens compares with
ownership of cars. or bricks'n'mortar properties, i.e. where the
commercial value of having a garden competes favourably with the
advantages of transforming the garden into a car parking space, or an
extension to the main building.
Where the value of gardens recognises the essence of variety thereby
off-setting the monotony of the type of globalisation as written about
in last month's RHS The Garden magazine.
***You could claim garden expenses against your taxes, or the state
would carry out the work for you. You could even be paid a sort of
over-the-top rent for having and maintaining your own garden, whilst
maintaining full autonomy over it. . Wouldn't that be nice (-:***
It would mean being in a world were such garden value has being
asserted. In this world, most realise that a garden is worth more than
the sum of its parts, but little is known about just what that extra
sum amounts to.

Well, now it seems there is a system called the Chris Nolan's Cavat
Technique (actually, that's old news) whereby a tree's size, health,
location (number of people that see it) and historical aspect are
taken into account.

Trouble is, I can't find any actual information on the formula so that
I can do the same for our rather beautiful and fine, supremely
healthy, 15-20m high, (60cm diameter at around 1.5m), which has being
there a good 30 years and can be viewed by several people... dozens at
least (-:

On Oct 18, 9:39*pm, aquachimp
wrote:
Almost two years ago, here, *I wrote a tongue in cheek piece about a
sort of NHS for gardens.http://groups.google.com/group/uk.re...thread/thread/...

An article in the RHS The Garden magazine around that time *about
gardens being lost to cars and built-on urbanisation got me thinking
about putting a $ or £ value on gardens, especially as, at the time,
our Birch tree was doing it's autumnal thing.

Back then, our neighbour of the time was not complaining. (since
deceased RIP) However, times have changed and this year we've had 2
complaints concerning it's leaves and flowers blowing into their
gardens.

back in 2006, part of what I wrote (the *** spells out the really
tongue in cheek bit, this time round) was;

"Imagine an alternate world were the values of gardens compares with
ownership of cars. or bricks'n'mortar properties, i.e. where the
commercial value of having a garden competes favourably with the
advantages of transforming the garden into a car parking space, or an
extension to the main building.
Where the value of gardens recognises the essence of variety thereby
off-setting the monotony of the type of globalisation as written about
in last month's *RHS The Garden magazine.
***You could claim garden expenses against your taxes, or the state
would carry out the work for you. You could even be paid a sort of
over-the-top rent for having and maintaining your own garden, whilst
maintaining full autonomy over it. . Wouldn't that be nice (-:***
It would mean being in a world were such garden value has being
asserted. In this world, most realise that a garden is worth more than
the sum of its parts, but little is known about just what that extra
sum amounts to.

Well, now it seems there is a system called the *Chris Nolan's Cavat
Technique (actually, that's old news) whereby a tree's size, health,
location (number of people *that see it) and historical aspect are
taken into account.

Trouble is, I can't find any actual information on the formula so that
I can do the same for our rather beautiful and fine, supremely
healthy, 15-20m high, (60cm diameter at around 1.5m), which has being
there a good 30 years and can be viewed by several people... dozens at
least (-:

urm, it's a birch tree.