Dont worry @Pianoplayer they won't be here forever, its just whilst they're growing a bit bigger, they'll either go to family farm or ill donate them! If everyone grew an tree for the world, would be a much better place
I have an oak tree, over 30 years old. I found the sapling growing by the edge of a walled bed when I began clearing the garden and replanted it somewhere more suitable.
It has grown into a lovely tree, but though the sapling began straight, it has become a very quirky Quercus, with curvaceous branches starting low down and curling in all directions. I don't know if this is because of growing conditions or genetics.
I did notice though, on a recent visit to a stately home, that one of their trees, in a mass planting, had done a similar thing and that they had had to support some of the lowest branches when the tree got too large. It probably had a headstart on mine of at least 100 years
Ah, but with oaks you also get acorns, which crunch underfoot on paving, drop rattling on the gazebo roof sounding like fireworks going off and lie thickly on and in grass. The garden vacuum doesn't like them - they damage the impeller. I did try a Henry type vacuum which didn't work well either......and then they grow in the "lawn" and the flower beds. Shouldn't have bought a house called The Oaks!
I was of the same persuasion when a neighbour complained that our oak drops acorns and leaves. Well if you don't want that, why on earth did you buy a house with a 150 year old oak with a TPO on the back boundary. I'm sure no one forced him.
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