by therisingblues » Fri Oct 04, 2013 4:59 pm
Psyber wrote:Sounds like it may be a poplar - they are inclined to sprout forests from their roots, and the more you trim them the more they sprout.
I had some in my back yard when I lived in Prospect and my back door neighbour offered to go halves in getting rid of them if I'd agree.
He'd had a tree expert in and had been advised we would have to slowly poison the trees and their roots before removing them.
(We had to drill holes in the trunks and pour the poison in over a few weeks.)
You could try putting this to the agent if you could back it up, but it does depend very much on the terms of your lease in the end.
Maybe it is affecting your neighbours too which may help your case.
I'm thinking of removing a tree from a rental property I own. It is only a Birch but I think it is a Silver Birch which can become huge and its roots are lifting the concrete path in one place.
I'll get expert advice before acting - it may be that I can just trim the roots on that side a bit with a Birch and it is nice looking tree.
I concur with the poplar theory, though could be a plane tree. As I understand it the little tree things growing from the roots are called suckers.
Get yourself some secateurs and cut them off when they're small would be my advice, or else just mow them off when you do the lawn if the ground's level enough.
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