Goodbye Trees

[neonlyte]

The wonderful trees in front of my apartment zre coming down this morning. It is to create a badly needed underground car park - part of the refurbishment of the market and city centre square. I know it is needed but none the less I am sad beyond belief. I'll miss the birds, the cool green view, the rustling of the leaves, the first burst of spring.

Sad day!

 

[Guest]

The wonderful trees in front of my apartment zre coming down this morning. It is to create a badly needed underground car park - part of the refurbishment of the market and city centre square. I know it is needed but none the less I am sad beyond belief. I'll miss the birds, the cool green view, the rustling of the leaves, the first burst of spring.

Sad day!

I had a similar thing happen outside my house. There was a lovely tree there, my cats loved climbing it, and I loved watching them play in it. The old dear next door arranged to have it chopped down, because it was "blocking light to her kitchen". Pfft! Poor tree...

 

[SemiColon]

We live in a new subdivision and they just bulldozed the woods to build more houses...

 

[jomar]

bummer

 

[neonlyte]

Two magnificent Palms are next for the chop *sigh*

 

[dr_mabeuse]

For some reason I feel like I have some special relationship with trees. I don't know why I feel this way, but I suspect I'm not alone. I used to live near a park and I had trees there I kind of talked to regularly. A lot of us unconsciously relate to trees as our protectors, our alter egos, our totems, and we find them relaxing and comforting.

It's a terrible loss.

 

[Guest]

The wonderful trees in front of my apartment zre coming down this morning. It is to create a badly needed underground car park - part of the refurbishment of the market and city centre square. I know it is needed but none the less I am sad beyond belief. I'll miss the birds, the cool green view, the rustling of the leaves, the first burst of spring.

Sad day!

Very sad.

We had to cut down one of the redbud trees in our back yard. (Cut it down before it fell down, really.)

But now there's a huge hole along the tree line at the fence. Squirrels and birds are confused. We do have many available seedlings from the front yard maple tree, but it'll take forever to replace that huge tree.

 

[neonlyte]

They've spared the Palm's for the moment, concentrating on the deciduous trees. They've also left the deciduous row immediately in front of the apartment... I have hopes, not high hopes... but, one never knows.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Mr. Science Sez: Did you know that willows come in sexes, like people? There are male willows and female willows. Most trees bear male and female flowers on the same tree, but willows are different.

The pollen that aggravates allergies is, of course, wind-borne plant semen, largely from trees. We all swallow.

 

[keeblercrumb]

Very sad.

..... Squirrels and birds are confused. .......

Perhaps if you were to make cute little signposts out of toothpicks... that would help.



-KC

 

[neonlyte]

Mr. Science Sez: Did you know that willows come in sexes, like people? There are male willows and female willows. Most trees bear male and female flowers on the same tree, but willows are different.

The pollen that aggravates allergies is, of course, wind-borne plant semen, largely from trees. We all swallow.

Some sniff

 

[shereads]

Well this sucks.

 

[MagicaPractica]

A friend of mine has been much aggravated by her neighbor chopping down a beautiful healthy tree in their front yard. According to the neighbor, grass wouldn't grow properly under it. My friend says they are going to be sorry though. It shielded their house from a lot of sun. I asked if they had central air, as her house does. She said yes. I said they probably won't even notice, just blame the electric company as their bill goes up.

 

[Stella_Omega]

There's a young redwood in the front yard right across the street from me. The people who bought the house are enthusiastic upgraders, and one of their improvements included lots of concrete in the front.

Bossy me went over and talked to the father about the tree when I saw the truck pull up. I told him about how trees' roots mirror the branches aboveground, and that, if concrete prevented water from reaching those roots, those mirroring branches would die.

Oddly enough, he listened and believed me, and redrew the yard diagram so as to leave plenty of ground uncovered around the tree, so now he has a half-concreted yard, instead of concrete plus some flowerbeds.

It's doing pretty well, despite the arid conditions of the Los Angeles basin. Such beautiful trees, with rich, subtle coloring and feathery branches...

 

[dr_mabeuse]

There's a young redwood in the front yard right across the street from me. The people who bought the house are enthusiastic upgraders, and one of their improvements included lots of concrete in the front.

Bossy me went over and talked to the father about the tree when I saw the truck pull up. I told him about how trees' roots mirror the branches aboveground, and that, if concrete prevented water from reaching those roots, those mirroring branches would die.

Oddly enough, he listened and believed me, and redrew the yard diagram so as to leave plenty of ground uncovered around the tree, so now he has a half-concreted yard, instead of concrete plus some flowerbeds.

It's doing pretty well, despite the arid conditions of the Los Angeles basin. Such beautiful trees, with rich, subtle coloring and feathery branches...

Fucking Mr. Science Can't Keep His Fucking Mouth Shut: Trees root systems are some of the richest biomes on the planet. There are ecosystems on systems dependent on the roots comprising fungi, insects, arthropods, and annelids.

In the tropics, the branches are the richest biomes and the forest canopies have been compared to coral reefs.

 

[NoJo]

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I couldn't help noticing from the first post that Neon probably has an AZERTY keyboard
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[Guest]

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I couldn't help noticing from the first post that Neon probably has an AZERTY keyboard
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You geek.

 

[shereads]

There are people who hate trees. They find them messy. A seventy-year-old oak on the border between my property and a neighbors' would have been chopped down one day if I hadn't happened to be here - and hadn't known it was illegal for them to take down the tree without a permit.

Said my neighbor, "It drops leaves all over my driveway."

Moron.

 

[shereads]

Fucking Mr. Science Can't Keep His Fucking Mouth Shut: Trees root systems are some of the richest biomes on the planet. There are ecosystems on systems dependent on the roots comprising fungi, insects, arthropods, and annelids.

In the tropics, the branches are the richest biomes and the forest canopies have been compared to coral reefs.

Rich biomes.



Is it true that a grove of aspen trees is one organism? Or is it that all the trees in an aspen grove are clones of one ancestor? There's some wierd science with aspens. Or am I thinking of Paul Reubens?

 

[TE999]

Between so-called 'hurricane cuts' of fronds (almost all off) and the anal retentives who remove a frond the minute it isn't green, it's a wonder we have any palm trees left around here.

I sneak over and fertilize my neighbors palms when they're not home. I hate seeing a healthy palm turn yellow from mineral deficiencies. Of course they're too busy to do it.

 

[shereads]

Between so-called 'hurricane cuts' of fronds (almost all off) and the anal retentives who remove a frond the minute it isn't green, it's a wonder we have any palm trees left around here.

I sneak over and fertilize my neighbors palms when they're not home. I hate seeing a healthy palm turn yellow from mineral deficiencies. Of course they're too busy to do it.

Are they coconut palms? Maybe one will whack your neighbor on the head.

 

[TE999]

Are they coconut palms? Maybe one will whack your neighbor on the head.

He wouldn't feel it.

They're Queen, Ponytail, Paurotis and Canary Island Date palms. He had them put in when he had the place built and then ignored them like the rest of his landscaping.

Asshole.

 

[starrkers]

I'm slowly adding trees to my small sheep paddock. When we bought it, it had six pepper trees, one almond, one plum, one orange, one apple and half a dozen figs, all ancient.

We had to remove one pepper tree due to proximity to the house site and three due to age and potential imminent demise and toppling. The orange tree has also died, despite my best efforts. The drought has much to answer for.

We have added about thirty native trees and shrubs along the back fence line, a small orchard of fruit trees (with more to come as season, money and time permits), and several "pretty" trees for shade.

We've also fed the local hares a supply of saplings over the past few years but now we're in residence the wonderdog is keeping the sapling eaters at bay.

 

[neonlyte]

The one in front of the house came down this morning

I recorded it's demise on video... you could hear the baby birds crying, though that might have been my imagination.

 

[Guest]

The one in front of the house came down this morning

I recorded it's demise on video... you could hear the baby birds crying, though that might have been my imagination.