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Re: Green thumb person needed
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Tue, 6 May 2003 04:28:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.pun, Erik Olson writes:
> This is off-topic. I need some advice from a landscaper.
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> I bought a house a few weeks ago. It has overwhelmed me with work to do
> (cleaning moving carpentry paneling painting shopping installing assembling
> wiring gardening wrecking mowing ARGH!), and then last night a big tree fell
> over in a storm after heavy rains.
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> It takes at least a week to get someone out to look at it so I have to
> decide myself whether it can be saved. Right now I am looking at a beached
> whale of a tree. It is smushed against my neighbor's house. I don't even
> know what kind it is but it has pretty white and pink blossoms (hawthorn or
> cherry perhaps.) It was about 20 feet high.
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> Apparently the previous owner did not prune it too recently: many large and
> shapely branches are dead on the west side where it fell, with the bark
> falling off the central trunk. It has about 6 more trunks starting just 3
> feet off the ground! In the past week it had flowered all over the living
> branches, however, and I think it wants to live if it could get up again.
> You can see the plastic wrap from the nursery and one big root twisted up
> through the lawn.
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> I have been getting mad books from the library on all sorts of handy topics
> including trees but I can't find any advice about triage (sorry!) So, any
> advice or web links are welcome.
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> -Erik
I dunno Erik, is this the best group for getting to the root of this problem?
I fear you may be barking up the wrong-- well, you know-- here. Anyway, from
what you said above I'd be worried more about whether I had insurance than
about the tree. But for me to offer any advice would be to go out on a limb,
since it isn't my area of expertise-- I guess I'll leave it to those who know
more about this branch of gardening.
Good luck-- or should I say knock on wood!
Maggie C.
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| I rooted around and concluded the tree was doomed. It had looked so beautiful I just felled bad about letting it go. Now it's next year's firewood. Crabapple. On another knob, last night our fence blew down. (23 years ago, 11-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| This is off-topic. I need some advice from a landscaper. I bought a house a few weeks ago. It has overwhelmed me with work to do (cleaning moving carpentry paneling painting shopping installing assembling wiring gardening wrecking mowing ARGH!), and (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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