Originally Posted by
ATH
I've just taken a 6 metre Norfolk Island pine down. Rescued it from my daughter years ago when it was a small Xmas tree, planted it and watched it grow nicely. Never a problem except for the fronds it constantly dropped but they were easily raked up.
Until this year when loads of green spikey cones grew on it and there were so many some branches broke under their weight.
Then the wind blew and seeds in their thousands blew everywhere! Plenty over the fence for the arsehole that lives there to clear up and even more my side so it had to go, and it's gone.
Next in line for the chop is a really nice NZ Xmas tree, nice but messy and the paving is lifting so when I get the energy and am fed up with looking at it, down she comes and bugger the birds being lost.
A conifer out the back planted in a bad place would get the chop, but the wog next door thinks he's clever spraying it with some acid stuff to kill it so I'm going to leave it.:D
Just love that constant work in the garden....:mad:
AlanH.