Yes, I've always had an interest in trees. Xena fans may remember I had an article posted on Whoosh on "Gabrielle and her Relationship to Trees". Plus, I was a Greenpeace ages ago, and still contribute to Friends of the Earth!
Anyway, this is a bit of a whinge about my neighbours - they all keep chopping down their trees! OK, so I know trees can cause problems. Who can forget my lovely trip to Mia's a few years back where a large branch fell on my rental car a few hours after arrival! However, one bloke a few doors up from me has just has the most beautiful elegant silver birch hacked down, and the ones next door to him had a gorgeous Cedar in the back garden that has now sadly gone.
Now, I myself have a rather problematic (ie gi-normous!) flowering cherry tree in my back garden, but I really love the blossom in the spring, and listening to the wood pigeons, and watching the squirrels run up it. I am NOT chopping it down!
People these days seem to be obsessed with block paving and neat over manicured gardens. OK, so when I look at the jungle at the back of my house I sometimes thing favourably about concrete, but I want to see GREEN when I look out of my windows - not grey! It's not even as if these trees were blocking the light.
Anyway, while I am totally incompetant as a gardener, I wanted to put in my word for trees. No hugging though...
