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Lelandi problem (sort of!)
Kay Easton11/5/04 5:20
snip (OK - I'm not arguing for beech trees in back gardens, but if we were to get to a situation where you were not allowed to grow anything that would cast shade on a neighbour's garden is IMO taking things a little too far, with a detriment to the urban environment as a whole). Oh, and Sacha - I'm not having a go at you - your post was just a convenient hook for a frustration that's been welling up in me all through this thread. No, I know you're not and I do take your very good point. But leylandii are not suitable trees for those purposes. I can't see any problem with people growing smallish specimen trees in city gardens and deriving and giving great pleasure when planting them. My brother and his wife live in Wandsworth and have a row of (IIRC) poplar trees at the bottom of their garden which have had to be severely pollarded and trimmed but which do, at least in summer, shield them from the neighbours at the bottom of their very small garden. The trouble is that the trees are inappropriately large for their setting, have had to be so messed about with as to be almost ugly but now have a tree protection order on them. I can't see why city dwellers can't plant trees that are an appropriate size or can be kept to that. Rhododendrons aren't trees, neither are Camellias but they can grow pretty big and are evergreen AND can be clipped to the required size AND have lovely flowers. Don't forget, the last house I lived in (the one you came to) had rather a small garden but someone had planted a potentially huge blue cedar in it because they addmired the one in next door's MUCH bigger garden. I had the horrible job of cutting down this lovely, still young tree because if I'd left it to mature, nobody could have got in or out of the front door. So I do have some sympathy with those in a similar position. ;-) Why not grow and clip Eucalypts, or a weeping mulberry - very pretty and with fruit, Kilmarnock Willow, fastigiate anything and still have greenery, the pleasure of a lovely tree but not the selfish obliteration of a neighbour's garden to adorn that of the guilty! It's not trees per se, it's the wrong tree. -- Sacha (remove the weeds to email me) |
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