On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 23:10:51 +1100, F Murtz
wrote:

Dave Baker wrote:
When I bought my current house 2 years ago there was a lovely grove of
elm trees on the adjacent land across the whole northern boundary which
completely isolated it visually from the farmhouse 50 yards away and 30
feet higher up the slope we live on here. It was like looking out onto a
woodland and was a big part of why I bought the place.

Davey the farmer asked me some time ago if I had any objections to him
trimming the trees to give him and his wife a better view out over the
countryside over the top of them past my house. They're his trees and he
can do what he likes with them and I wouldn't dream of interfering and
was grateful to even be asked but we agreed a trimming height which made
no odds to my view of his house and let him look over the top of them.
However he's not just lopped the tops off, he's cut every bloody branch
off lower down so all that's left is bare trunks. It now looks like the
aftermath of a meteor impact or atomic bomb explosion. There's no cover
at all. I can see right through to their place and vice versa.

How long will it take for branches to grow back and leaves to start
obscuring the view again? I'm guessing many years. Anything we can do to
make this happen faster or encourage branch growth on the bare stems?
Are they slippery?

And awful hard to climb.

--

Graham.

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