A nice idea, Birdie, but-- alas, no. There are six beeches just behind my gardens, and they are well ensconced, and I want them right where they are; they are (ahem) precious, and I don't want them disturbed. These lovely young beeches vary in height from ten to perhaps thirty feet tall. However, the (bleeping) oak was about fifty feet tall, and towering over the beeches. Not nice neighbors, these oakses. Not nice.
Saving oaks is not a high priority in general, here. They don't call my neighborhood "Thousand Oaks" for nothing. I never bothered to count how many oaks we actually have on our own property. However, I can estimate that we only have twenty (lovely, delicate, beautiful, slender, graceful) beeches. Hence, the beeches stay.
Overall, if we are now reduced to nine-hundred, eighty-eight oak trees instead of a thousand oaks, I shall not weep. But that one particular specimen was unusual in that it was very straight and shapely. Too bad.
In the meantime, if I don't get really busy and remove all the (bleeping) sprouting acorns from my garden, there will be another thousand oaks just in my garden alone!!!!! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] Yet another reason to let the beeches thrive behind the garden, and press back the oaken canopy...
Bleeding heart season is here, and late (white, fragrant ) daffodils. How about the rest of you? What's blooming, everyone?
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