bobm
Garden Master
About a year ago, the State removed a large ,leaning dying cottonwood from behind our next door neighbor's back fence that was a hazzard and ready to fall onto his house. After they cut it down, they put stump killer on it's stump to prevent regrowth. Lo and behold, that stump had a direct attached root system to a HUGE 2 trunked 50' tree 10 feet away right at our property line . The stump killer started to severely affect the health of that tree as it started to show every symptom of dying. The neighbor called the State to remove that tree too as one side of it was leaning toward his house and the other side was leaning toward our home. Well , the day arrived for the tree crew to cut this tree down. They started to cut it down when the head highway forester came to inspect the situation ... he then ordered another crew in to cut down all of the other cottonwood trees starting from behind our entire back yard fence going along both sides of the draining ditch for a quarter of a mile. 3 guys with chain saws, one machine with a 90 foot extention (up to 90 feet up and 360* in every direction ) with a bucket at it's end . Within 2 days of work, all of the cottonwood trees ( from seedlings to up to 50 foot trees ) were cut down and became wood chips after going through a very large chipping machine. I asked if I could have some logs 2" to 6" diameter and 4' to 10 ' long. They saved 19 logs for me and stacked them along my back fence. One of my neighbors then moved them into my back yard. I will use them to incorporate them into my NEW landscaping to replace all of the plants that succumbed to vierticilium wilt. What have I gotten myself into .....
