Georgia Gardening: Tree trouble, 1 by TulipLady

TulipLady wrote:
All of the above makes sense. Yes indeed the soil is rather dark grey. Problem (worry) also is that were that tree was, is where a French drain ( crawl space basement) comes out. The roots will have gone under a slab of concrete small patio like in front of basement. I hope this is not going to be a disaster!!!
Here's a photo of area BEFORE landscaping. That small tree is still there. Just of the right of that used to be the big tree. You can still see some of the roots where the retaining wall was created. Those were taken out.