Thread: Council Tree Causing MASSIVE Leaf Droppings In My Gutters?i

Originally Posted by 1950landy

Here in Brisbane many years the council came through & planted Leopard Trees on the foot parts , I as did others removed the trees but some left them , when the council came to water the trees & asked were the trees were I told them I don't have trees on the footpath , they are too dangerous & block your vision when exiting my property & I had planted the tree in my property so they were happy with that & went away. I do wish though that I hadn't replanted the tree as once it grew nothing would grow under the tree , the seed had to be picked up & you had to be careful mowing or you would destroy your mower or put a seed through a window . Now the one who left them have been trying to get the council to remove them. Our previous neighbour across the road ( who had bought the house after the trees had been established ) , who were in there late 70's tried for years with out success , his wife who had had 2 x hip & 2 X knee replacements done tripped on the roots a couple of times but the council would not remove the trees. Al they do is trim the tree & grind as little as possible off the roots. Every morning he would fill 2 X buckets with seed pods off the trees .

They sold recently & new neighbours told me he had asked the council to remove the tree because of the mess the tree made & he had also bent the crank shaft on his mower when he hit one of the roots . I told him he had buckle's & the only way to get rid of the tree was to put Mistletoe in the tree . In the next street to ours one of the councils trees had Mistletoe in it & the council was out within a couple of days & removed the tree , when they are going to trim & grind the trees it takes a couple of months to do anything.

All the trees the council plant in Brisbane are fast growing that have large surface roots & the council would rather replace the concrete footpaths every 6 months than remove the troublesome trees . I do realize why they choose these trees because deep rooted trees interfere with the underground services but there must something more appropriate they could plant.

You got leopard trees, we got golden rain/shower. I am not sure which name is correct. Ideal footpath trees said council, Shade in summer, leaves drop and allow winter sun. Lovely floral display in late summer. Lot of BS. Leaves drop in thick piles and rust out cars by getting into the air intake plenums, The pollen and sticky nectar make a mess of any vehicle parked under, and the seeds populate the neighbourhood with more trees. Not to mention the possums love the nectar and poop on your cars. Anyhow some thirty years later council has declared these an invasive woody weed and garden shops may no longer sell them. This only applies in the Brisbane council area. Bunnings in other jurisdictions still sell them. Council does not remove invasive species. I eventually got them to fell the two trees outside my place on the basis of dead branches. Took years of complaints. Of course, the stumps coppiced vigorously and took more complaints and another wait to get something done about this. Two guys with a truck and a stump grinder arrived, ground down one stump and treated the residual bit. Then started to pack up. Hold on, says I, what about the other one over there in plain sight? Work order is only for one said they and off they went. So I drilled several 25mm holes in the stump, filled them with tree killer and distillate mix. When the stump was well and truly dead I filled and refilled the holes several times with distillate and when well saturated set fire to it. All gone now and green grass there.

My neighbour recently took down a large gum tree on his driveway/my fence , concern being that it was splitting in half.

Cost him near $2000 to have it removed.

Already my gutters are much healthier , ie no overflowing/ blockages in the risers further down the yard.

But now I am threatened by my own large lilypilly, which is soon to get the axe.

Trees are nice and environmentally sound...in parks and larger areas.....nice when theyre smaller , a bit like children.

I'm increasingly adding fruit trees...thats the way to go.