Subj : Re: packets
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Sat Jun 06 2020 18:28:42

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 31-May-2020 07:40 <=-

 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',

Then I suppose that you'd have to choose between planting for the future
generations, or planting for shade soon... 
 
 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.

But apparently one could mistake the intent to KEEP them there... ;) 
 
ttyl       neb

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