Re: Roses and soils and OTHER PLANTS FOR HEAVY CLAY SOILS

The last thing I want to do is disagree with Joe, BUT....... I had a very large mature Acacia melanoxylon. It was such a large and beautiful tree that the city wouldn't let me take it down. It looked to me like it was in trouble. It had crotch about four feet off the ground with the two halves about equally large. It looked to me like it was about to split and that would have been a large problem!. I got on this chat line and heard a lot of terror tales from you people about what happens to mature specimens of this tree. Apparently it was quite common for it to come apart. I checked with my insurance company and they assured me I was covered. So I went down to the city attorney and told him a bout it and that my insurance assured me I was protected. I had asked them what they might do if an event occurred and they said it depended on the magnitude of the problem, that if it was a big enough problem they might come after the city. I said it was no longer my problem it was theirs. The City Attorney just smiled at me and I left.
Some time later I decided to ask the Tree Committee one more time. Lo and behold, they came out and looked at it and they agreed that it was a danger and that it looked like the crotch was getting ready to split and that they thought it was diseased! They let me take it down which I did forthwith.
Funny how easy it was this time. Do you think the City had some internal communications going?

If you have one and it's mature. KEEP AN EYE ON IT! ---Chas---
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Acacia melanoxylon                    BLACK ACACIA
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