Re: Monterey Pine and others!!!
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Monterey Pine and others!!!
- From: C* D* <c*@fix.net>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:32:45 -0800
- References: <670e035e.36a50611@aol.com>
>> trees and shrubs that are mutilated annually (or more often) in order to
>>keep
>> them from overwhelming the neighboring houses, sidewalks, driveways,
>>streets,
>> or plantings.
>
> Kurt
>Your mention of regular mutilation of pines shows how little gardeners
>vary in different parts of the world.
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Trees, other than Momterey pines, can suffer as well. With the lack
of seasons in California some people like to try to manufacture one. One
way of doing this is to plant Liquidambar. When it's a cute little tree
about four feet high they do not cast their eyes upward to see the power
lines! And the unfortunate thing is that it only has good fall color about
one or two of every five years!
Every couple years the power company has to come out and butcher a
large eucalyptus tree planted by a neighbor of mine under a power line!
A neighbor over my back fence has a feather palm that must be a
minimum of three feet in diameter, I don't know which one. But for the last
ten years it has been laying fronds on the power line. I get out and hack
what's on my property. With a palm, at least it will outgrow the lines in
another ten or so years!
Just down the street is a Fruitless mulberry. It is way too large
for its location in the middle of a front yard that is about 20' by 20'.
Last fall they bit the bullet and had it pollarded! Scraggly stubs stuck up
till the new foliage came and hid the butchery.
Recently when I was recounting my potential problem with a mature
black acacia, Acacis melanoxylon, someone mentioned seeing a redwood
planted several feet from a house!
There's no solution to this. I guess cultivating a bemused smile is
about the best we can do. ---Chas---
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