Day/Night Owls Chit Chat

[Texan]

thats sad tex.. I lost my cherry tree last year.....

at least they are replaceable....

A cherry tree is a great idea if they will grow in my climate. I suffer from gout occasionally and I usually self medicate with unsweetened cherry juice. A cherry tree would be nice. I suspect that bugs will not attack the fruit as much as in peach, pear, and apple trees.

[cods]

oooo i have had gout as well its the worst of the worst...

never heard of cherry juice though I beware oranges..

I dont think cherries like the heat..need a cool ground we had a very very hot summer and i had weedmat over the ground..

so I dont think I did it a lot of good.....in hindsight.....they are easy though if you dont have a bird problem...

[Texan]

oooo i have had gout as well its the worst of the worst...

never heard of cherry juice though I beware oranges..

I dont think cherries like the heat..need a cool ground we had a very very hot summer and i had weedmat over the ground..

so I dont think I did it a lot of good.....in hindsight.....they are easy though if you dont have a bird problem...

Cherry juice will flush uric acid out of your body. You will get the runs for a few hours. It doesn't work as well as colchicine, but the side effects aren't as drastic and it tastes better. (and doesn't require a prescription from the doctor) I used to take allopurinol as a preventative, but since I discovered cherry juice, I've given it up. I get flare ups about once a year.

My "triggers" are peanut butter and shrimp. I avoid those like the plague and I like them both.


We have hot Summers here as well, so I doubt cherry trees will work here. I don't see them here, so that's probably a good sign they won't grow here. My peaches are almost ripe already. I may pick them soon before the birds get any ideas. Mrs. Texan makes a delicious cobbler. Put it with some Blue Bell Ice Cream and it's near the perfect dessert.

[Black Orchid]

Did the pear tree split at the seams?

WOW that seems like a lot of trees they felled. I would be quite upset

The pear tree was just old and didn't put out any leaves this year. It was about 25 years old, which is the typical life for a Bradford Pear. I'll replace them with pecan and fruit trees. The Bradford pear is a fruitless tree. It is beautiful when it blossoms and provides good shade when mature, but like most fruit trees, it doesn't live very long. The trees in my front yard are oak and ash. Great long lasting shade trees, but slow growing. I'll leave the South side of my back yard clear in case I want to grow a garden or put up solar panels.

The trees that they cut were more like large bushes along my fence line. They were destined to be cut down because they were growing beneath overhead utility lines. They blocked wind and gave me some privacy, but they didn't provide much shade. I plan to plant honeysuckle and maybe some berries along the back fence to restore some privacy. My neighbors to my rear are 150 meters away. I just met him while inspecting the carnage of the sewage line installation. He is a cop and his daughter is my youngest son's age. They went to elementary school together. Meeting neighbors is about the only good thing form this utilities debacle. I know most people in my neighborhood, but behind me is a whole different neighborhood and you have to drive 2km just to get to that street. I don't know those people as well.

Bradfords aren't good long term prospects and many tend to split due to their trunk formation. You are really lucky insofar as you have an amazing selection of beautiful tree specimens to choose from in the US. We have gums, gums and more gums (Eucalyptus) which aren't always pretty, prone to die back and dropping branches and ignite quickly during bush fires.

[brian ross]

Did the pear tree split at the seams?

WOW that seems like a lot of trees they felled. I would be quite upset

The pear tree was just old and didn't put out any leaves this year. It was about 25 years old, which is the typical life for a Bradford Pear. I'll replace them with pecan and fruit trees. The Bradford pear is a fruitless tree. It is beautiful when it blossoms and provides good shade when mature, but like most fruit trees, it doesn't live very long. The trees in my front yard are oak and ash. Great long lasting shade trees, but slow growing. I'll leave the South side of my back yard clear in case I want to grow a garden or put up solar panels.

The trees that they cut were more like large bushes along my fence line. They were destined to be cut down because they were growing beneath overhead utility lines. They blocked wind and gave me some privacy, but they didn't provide much shade. I plan to plant honeysuckle and maybe some berries along the back fence to restore some privacy. My neighbors to my rear are 150 meters away. I just met him while inspecting the carnage of the sewage line installation. He is a cop and his daughter is my youngest son's age. They went to elementary school together. Meeting neighbors is about the only good thing form this utilities debacle. I know most people in my neighborhood, but behind me is a whole different neighborhood and you have to drive 2km just to get to that street. I don't know those people as well.

Interesting that you use kilometres and metres for distance measuring, Tex.

Were the bushes/trees on your side of the fence or were they outside your fence line? I would assume that if they were inside your fence, the utilities company would have to either replace them or provide compensation. If they were outside your fence line, then well, they were pretty much someone else's problem...

I use metric only here. When in Rome........ We are taught both systems in school and I even learned both systems in engineering school. Of course, I haven't been in school in 26 years.

Interesting. Most Americans I know exclusively use Imperial measurements, rather than SI ones.

Who knows, in a few decades you lot might even join the rest of the world...

The trees on the fence line were just behind my fence and were barely on my neighbor's property. He would get the compensation, even though I benefited most from the trees. The utility company payed me $500 for my trouble and they will restore my fence as it was before they started. They trimmed some of my trees along the property line, but they didn't take them down.

So, effectively you're complaining about trees that you didn't even own? Seems you've come out of the problem reasonably well off IMHO - and you have have access to sewage as well? Seems you have gotten a bit of bargain here, Tex.

[Neferti]

We have gums, gums and more gums (Eucalyptus) which aren't always pretty, prone to die back and dropping branches and ignite quickly during bush fires.

What annoys me is that we have gums in the bush and then the local council decides to plant bloody gums in new residential areas. They are fine out there in the bush but a nuisance in suburbia. There was a Eucalyptus nicholii on my front lawn when I bought this house in 1983. It got infected with spitfire grubs and died so I was able to get it removed before it grew and I would need "approval" to have it chopped down!

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[Black Orchid]

Eucalyptus in residential areas and used as street trees just aren't viable but they keep planting them because they are fast growing.

They have a shallow root ball and when there is a lot of rain and/or wind they blow over and take down power lines.

[Neferti]

Eucalyptus in residential areas and used as street trees just aren't viable but they keep planting them because they are fast growing.

They have a shallow root ball and when there is a lot of rain and/or wind they blow over and take down power lines.

When I lived in Sydney, during a storm, there were gum trees uprooted all over the place. No power lines here in Canberra, all those services are under ground, however, the next door neighbor has a Eucalyptus nicholii that has to be 100'+ tall and it tends to lean this way .... the wind comes from that direction too .... and one day it will uproot and ........

[Black Orchid]

Lots of trees around me and I am lucky I don't have more problems. It's lazy and bad planning on the Councils' part. Most of them don't have a clue.

[Nicole]

Brian to Tex

Who knows, in a few decades you lot might even join the rest of the world...

Oh just fuck off with your anti-Americanism Brian. It’s pathetic.