LOL at pansyface 'Bonsai'...........but you are right, considering how huge it could/should be, up to 140'!!!..........thanks silver surfer
I moved here 4 years ago, left it alone for 2 years, but it was growing so tall and so fast I had no option but to cut it back as it had grown above the top of the upstairs bedroom windows, rapidly heading towards the overhead electricity lines. The neighbors say that the old lady's son used to cut it down regularly. It's only about 10' from the from of the house, but gives great privacy and keeps the sitting room cool.
My neighbours got quite excited the two times I cut it back, they want rid of it! I think it's beautiful when in leaf, looks like something that survived a nuclear war when bare though
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Looks like a horse chestnut to me
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Thanks,................I thought that too but it has never flowered or grown conkers.........it just grows very fast, and grows green leaves.
Would that be down to neglect?
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Probably due to pruning, it looks as though it's cut back hard & kept to a compact shape
Aesculus sp.
To be that old and be so small, dense and leafy it must have been pruned.
Is someone pruning it?
That would remove flowering shoots for the following spring.
LOL at pansyface 'Bonsai'...........but you are right, considering how huge it could/should be, up to 140'!!!..........thanks silver surfer
I moved here 4 years ago, left it alone for 2 years, but it was growing so tall and so fast I had no option but to cut it back as it had grown above the top of the upstairs bedroom windows, rapidly heading towards the overhead electricity lines. The neighbors say that the old lady's son used to cut it down regularly. It's only about 10' from the from of the house, but gives great privacy and keeps the sitting room cool.
My neighbours got quite excited the two times I cut it back, they want rid of it! I think it's beautiful when in leaf, looks like something that survived a nuclear war when bare though