Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Unique trees; If I Only Had The Room, 0 by Muddy1

Muddy1 wrote:
Ha ha very funny Mipii!

Sally, you got me to thinking. This photo shows the lower part of our backyard before we bought our house. Of all the trees in the photo, only 2 are left: a red maple in the center position on the left side of the photo, and a (then) very small Japanese Maple growing right against our shed on the right side.

We had a row of 7 white pines on the left, and they became very "thin"; only a little bit of green was left at the top by the time I had all but one of them cut down. I had them cut down because their "fat" specimen sibling in the front yard dropped half of its trunk on my house. The ones in the back had no heavy limbs left, so probably didn't pose a real threat, but I found them guilty by association.

The remaining red maple is really half of a tree because it didn't develop limbs on one side due to the heavy competition from the pines and 2 other maples. It's not an attractive tree, but when I look at it I usually think 1) not likely to damage my house and 2) good shelter for birds so 3) I don't really care what it looks like but 4) I could plant a tree beside it to make it look better.

This message was edited Jan 12, 2014 8:15 PM