Subj : Re: packets To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Jun 16 2020 16:30:58 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 07-Jun-2020 10:13 <=- 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... BM> I'll admit to being a little self-centered and would be planting more BM> for me, though some consideration for the future: it would be a sturdy BM> type of tree, so more hardwood than soft, and one that stands up to BM> storms and winds. And the sooner you do plant it, the sooner there will be any benefit from it, whether short-term or long-term.... ;) BM> The shade consideration is an interesting one: the tree while quite BM> large provided very little shading of the house. Probably was mostly BM> positioning while that could be corrected at planting of the new tree BM> then creates another problem as would be growing into the utility BM> lines. Here the telephone, cable, fiber optic and electric lines are BM> run along telephone poles in the back yard where an alley would have BM> been but they never built. And then they cross the back yard from the runs to connect into your house.... No alley even planned for here, but still the lines run along the back lot lines, with the secondary lines coming in diagonally from the poles to the backs of the houses... 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... ;) BM> True: they were well-seen above the groundcover. So one would have to tell the "weedpuller" not to pull those, since they were intentional... ttyl neb .... Inanimate objects move just enough to get in your way. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .