Re: Monterey Pine and others!!!

K1MIZE@aol.com,Internet writes:

>I see more outrages committed against Fruitless Mulberry than perhaps
>any
>other tree.  What's up with that?  It wouldn't be so bad if they were
>artfully
>pollarded like the plane trees of Europe, but they are almost always
>butchered
>unmercifully.

you should see our neighbors maple tree (i think it might be a norway
maple). Anyways every year they trimmed its branches back into ugly
stubs, and long pole like branches are now growing fromt he stubs. Our
new neighbors havent trimmed it, so im wiating to see how big it will
get before they trim it. That tree is resillient, a while back it had
gotten rammed into by a drunk driver, and it only has a small wound
about four feet up the trunk. The neighbors covered the wound in tar,
and now its healing over.

>  I have a neighbor who, I swear, prunes all his trees with a
>dull hatchet!  No regard for form, health of the tree, anything other
>than to
>discourage the poor things from growing, apparently.  Why not just rip
>them
>out and be done with it?  My other big pet peeve is a garden of shrubs
>of a
>variety of species trimmed into uniform "muffins."  Californians never
>seem to
>tire of that look.  Then there are those lovely gardens of red lava
>rock and
>white gypsum arranged in geometric patterns...

I dislike that gumdrop landscape many californians admire also!.
Anyways about the rock garden look, theres a house in town that has
their ENTIRE front yard covered in nothing but red rock. No plants, not
even in a geometric design. Its so ugly and dry looking. I guess they
didnt want to have to deal with yardwork. Theres not even one tree on
the property either/



>Kurt
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