Re: Royal Paulownia

I mentioned earlier that they cut our tree-lining streets every 7 yrs.  This
is not because of power lines - those are in the easement in back.  They
need to be limbed up for school buses and delivery trucks and to get
dead/dying limbs before they crash down on someone's car or head.  We get
some pretty bad winds through here and Silver Maples are notorious for
dropping limbs.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Royal Paulownia


> I think they must do it everywhere that there are overhead power lines.
> Guess I'm lucky because the power line for my place runs along the back
> property line where there are no big trees. Folks across the street are
> not so blessed. Many of them have butchered trees in their front lawns.
>
> But I have to believe that some of this is brought on by the
> homeowners. I have a corner lot and there are power lines down the side
> street. Whoever owned this place before the people we bought it from
> had planted a queen palm directly under the power line. Cost me a case
> of beer to get one of the landscape crews to transplant it for me.
>
>
> On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 09:02 PM, ""
> <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:
>
> > Here too, one of my pet peeves. I was noticing some especially
> > butchered
> > specimins on the way back from the nursery this morning. Make me nuts.
> >
> >
> > Pam Evans
> > Kemp, TX
> > zone 8A
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Andrea H
> > Sent: 3/28/2004 7:29:47 PM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Royal Paulownia
> >
> >> they do that here too Marge. They'll cut the middle out of a live oak
> >> so it
> >> has this giant swoop in the center. Looks ridiculous and I'm sure
> >> those
> >> trees are going to topple any day OR they'll just cut one side of
> >> whatever
> >> the offending tree might be so it's branchless on one side and full
> >> on the
> >> other. Completely asinine.
> >> Andrea H
> >> Beaufort, SC
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:30 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Royal Paulownia
> >>
> >>
> >>> When I read your first post - didn't have a chance to respond then -
> >>> wondered if what you were seeing was the handiwork of our idiot
> >>> utility companies?  They go around hacking back trees to keep them
> >>> away from the power lines...and hacking is a kind word for what they
> >>> do.
> >>>
> >>> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> >>> mtalt@hort.net
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> >>>>
> >>>> In a message dated 3/27/04 10:21:02 PM, kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
> >>>>
> >>>> << I couldn't tell from your post whether you thought topping and
> >>> coppicing
> >>>> were similar practices or that one just brought the other to mind.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Kitty, it just reminded me of what I saw.  Many of these were in
> >>> public
> >>>> locations which one would think professionls have performed the
> >>> work.  Also, some
> >>>> were sizeable trees with each branch pruned severly.
> >>>>     I believe coppicing and stooling is the same performance which
> >>> I do each
> >>>> year to my Royal Purple  Cotinus but I am sure we have discussed
> >>> that in the
> >>>> past.
> >>>>     Are you receiving lots of rain?  Flash flood warnings last
> >>> evening and it
> >>>> is still very dreary and soft rain with heavy spruts now & then.
> >>>>     Ceres
> >>>
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> Zone 10
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