Barbara wrote:Hmm, too bad. I feel sorry for the tree. I suspect that fruit trees enjoy producing fruit to help humans !
I always go out of my way to lavishly compliment my pear tree, while wheedling my near-defunct apricot tree to
snap back to life and produce crops like it used to, around St Vladimir's Day each summer.I notice a lot of people indiscriminately cutting down trees with no reason at all, and thereby making people look at their houses directly without the nice screen of foliage blocking the view.
Particularly when the house is nothing to rave about, I wish the trees would be left where they grew, unless the species is difficult to handle. I was just hearing about Russian olives [which sound intriguing, like the Garden of Olives and the Russian convent there combined] as considered pests because of thorns. I have yet to see a Russian olive tree myself, so I can't say.
Real estate agents and appraisers tell people to chop down their trees in the front yard so that the house is more visible.
Yes, it is nuts.