How tall should trees be? As tall as they want to be!
It’s sad the way they get trimmed to avoid the power lines in the suburbs, so sad! I lived in a place that was an official tree city and they would trim the trees in the middle to avoid the power lines. They would have chunks whacked out of them. Not only is improper pruning unattractive, it is unhealthy and makes the tree more liable to be unstable. Pruning is necessary and helps the tree grow better and be more stable but it has to be done properly.
Coloma That is so sad about the 500 year old oak! It would be bad enough if they did it for safety reasons. That I could understand. But for a driveway!!!!
I had to answer this question when I saw it. I don’t care about Mitt Romney’s comment. I didn’t really see it. It sounds so stupid I refuse to even look it up. Today I discovered the most amazing thing! The oldest living organism in the Earth is a single tree that grew into a forest! It has a stupid name for such a grand thing. It is called Pando(tree) which is Latin for “I Spread” It is a forest of Quaking Aspen which originated from a single seed.It encompasses 106 acres and has about 47,000 stems.They think it is 80,000 years old! Every tree in the forest has the same gentic makeup. Amazing.
”...quaking aspen regularly reproduces via a process called suckering. An individual stem can send out lateral roots that, under the right conditions, send up other erect stems; from all above-ground appearances the new stems look just like individual trees. The process is repeated until a whole stand, of what appear to be individual trees, forms. This collection of multiple stems, called ramets, all form one, single, genetic individual, usually termed a clone.”
I have been to Utah and I’ve seen the quaking Aspens near Park City and they are truly beautiful.
Take that Mitt Romney!!! Utah has Michagan beat.