Subj : packets
To   : Nancy Backus
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sun Jun 07 2020 10:13:00


Hi Nancy!

 BM>>> I would love to replace the tree that died in the back
 BM>>> yard for shade but it's going to take twenty years to grow that big.
 NB>>> As for that, there are some shade trees that grow fairly quickly...
 NB>>> might not take twenty years to get a decent replacement, just not
 NB>>> the same type of tree... :)
 BM>> Yes, there are some fast-growing trees.  When the maple tree died one
 BM>> of the considerations was replacing with two trees: one a sturdy
 BM>> hardwood which would take ages to grow and the other a fast-growing
 BM>> softwood to substitute for a while and then be removed.  Problem was
 BM>> not enough room for two trees to properly grow. the fast-growing tree
 BM>> still isn't fast enough growing.
 NB>> I was thinking of some variety of locust tree... They give leafy shade
 NB>> and do grow quickly...  But then you'd probably not be planting another
 NB>> maple with it...
 BM> We hadn't gone as far as specific types of trees but did come to the
 BM> conclusion it wasn't going to work here: mostly insufficient room and
 BM> that was also going to cause a problem with at least one of the trees
 BM> 'growing funny' ==> shade cast by one would cause the other to grow
 BM> 'funny',
 NB> Then I suppose that you'd have to choose between planting for the
 NB> future generations, or planting for shade soon...

I'll admit to being a little self-centered and would be planting more 
for me, though some consideration for the future: it would be a sturdy
type of tree, so more hardwood than soft, and one that stands up to 
storms and winds.

The shade consideration is an interesting one: the tree while quite 
large provised very little shading of the house.  Probably was mostly
positioning while that could be corrected at planting of the new tree 
then creates another problem as would be growing into the utility lines.
Here the telephone, cable, fiber optic and electric lines are run along 
telephone poles in the back yard where an alley would have been but they
never built.


 BM>> Ended up nothing replaced, even though I semi-sneakily allowed some of
 BM>> the seedlings to remain when I was weeding.  They got plucked.  (There's
 BM>> an area of shrubs, ground cover, some flowers, etc., in the section as
 BM>> around the tree the grass didn't grow all that well.)
 NB>> I guess you would have had to be more purposeful about leaving the
 NB>> seedlings there... and put guards around them to show it... ;)
 BM> Oh, there was no mistaking they were there.
 NB> But apparently one could mistake the intent to KEEP them there...
 NB> ;)

True: they were well-seen above the groundcover.


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