I bought a gunnii best part of 30 years ago for £1.99 Fast forward about 20 years -
The photo was taken in 2009 It then cost £1100 to have it taken down...
I'm curious...why did you take it down? I think it looks fantastic....or did. I've just had a similar size tree crown reduced and thinned for £250 which has really rejuvenated it.
It was a beautiful tree, but it was just way too big, and leaf-drop in June/July saw the lawn covered on waxy leaves that the mower can't pick up. Around here we're quite high and completely exposed to the south-west. I can see the horizon to the south-west where most of our storms and winds come from and it did sway dramatically in high winds. One of my neighbours was concerned it'd come down in their garden - and possibly their neighbour's garden too It has opened up my garden dramatically, but I have no shade anywhere in my south facing garden now - so this summer I was indoors most of the time I did have 50ft removed from it a few years before it came down, but that just caused it to grow even faster!
Billericay - Essex
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You can easily keep them as shrubs, by coppicing every Spring. Mine grow about 6 feet in a season. By doing this you will also keep the juvenile foliage, which is smaller and bluer.
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Around here we're quite high and completely exposed to the south-west. I can see the horizon to the south-west where most of our storms and winds come from and it did sway dramatically in high winds.
One of my neighbours was concerned it'd come down in their garden - and possibly their neighbour's garden too
It has opened up my garden dramatically, but I have no shade anywhere in my south facing garden now - so this summer I was indoors most of the time
I did have 50ft removed from it a few years before it came down, but that just caused it to grow even faster!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Mine grow about 6 feet in a season. By doing this you will also keep the juvenile foliage, which is smaller and bluer.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...