Forum home Problem solving
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Planting a field maple in a small garden

2»

Posts

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited July 2020
    'No' in a general kind of way, @B3? Or NO to commercial space travel? To the political state of the socio-economic collapse? To Reggae Reggae sauce?  Or do you loudly refute the fact that squirrels like seeds?
    (*Drags up soapbox and taps the mic*). 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Fire said:
    WE, a lot of work to keep it down, though I would have thought. I have three beech trees as hedging (inherited) and it's a regular job to keep them in check in a tiny front garden. Leave them for six months and they would have swallowed the house. Not what you would call low maintenance. I'm sitting on a pyracantha, a holly tree and three beech trees all planted in a 2x3m space, trying to stop them becoming 20 ft tall.
    Ancient Chinese proverb: A society grows great when people plant trees under whose shade they know they shall never stand while reading an extortionate quote from a tree surgeon.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    An all-encompassing NO as regards a huge tree in a small garden. Who knows whether this site will still be here when it grows to maturity and someone wants to know how to get rid of it or how to plant under it or what they'll do because their neighbour has chopped a lump off it.
     NO to wars disease racism climate change parsnips ceanothus and forsythia.

    and I don't dislike RR sauce in the way that I don't dislike HP sauce, but there are better sauces available.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    "PARSNIPS: JUST SAY NO!"

    Thank you for your thoughts.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Beelzebub's vegetable. Hides in a roast dinner disguised as a roast potato. If you are unfortunate enough to find yourself in polite company, you can't even spit it out!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It's so hard to find a good sauce these days :(
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    Fire said:
    I'm sitting on a pyracantha, a holly tree..........
    OUCH!!!!!
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Fire said:
    I'm sitting on a pyracantha, a holly tree..........
    OUCH!!!!!
    Probably better than sitting on a parsnip :#

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    We have a huge one in our very large garden. Glorious autumn colour, but no way would I want one in a small garden. Very inappropriate, and will cost you in tree surgeons fees, to say nothing of potential damage to drains, etc. I’d give it back and ask for something more appropriate!
Sign In or Register to comment.