Council has planted tree on my land.

gonna get bigger

Life's too short, life's too short - honest, for all this Angst - it's a small tree, struuf.

When we moved in 2011 Absent we went into temporary accommodation for 6 months until we could move into our current home. In my last house I had quite a big garden with some fantastic rhododendron's,fruit trees, magnolias, camellia's etc. we had no choice but to leave everything as we had nowhere for them to go. I went to visit my ex neighbour last Friday and was upset to see the state of my once lovely garden. Everything was either overgrown or gone and my once manicured lawn resembled a kind of jungle. Needless to say the new owners are not gardeners .

I love this thread - it gets dafter and dafter! If it was me, I would dig the tree up, plant it where I really want it to be, and phone the council to complain that my maple is missing! You can't plant too many trees.

He said one of his neighbours identified it as a maple.

Bark! Not vocally I remember learning how to identify trees by their bark.
It could be an apple tree, and as it belongs to the council will frank then not touch the apples?

IT MIGHT HAVE A LABEL !!!!

Oh ok Orca! I don't know what the flippin' tree is!!

Using what JO? Maple is deciduous and identification by buds is very difficult.

When we first moved on to an open plan estate the powers that be thought it rather nice to plant a flowering cherry in everyones front garden. Fifteen years later the pavements were death traps and the tree roots were wrapped round drains and utility pipes and creeping towards the house walls. I love trees but to plant them so close to a house is not sensible.

I've tried three different Japanese maples 'cos I really like them, but all have died. I don't think there'd be room in our garden for a full size maple. The walnut might object.

Ahoy! frank! Get a goat!

So would I but it wouldn't survive in our garden. We had a small one that had been a third birthday present for Minibags. Deer ate it.

Me too...

flupping 'ell some people get steamed up about the strangest things. if someone gave me a free maple and planted it as well, I would be very happy.

Don't tell Frank that...I need to tear myself away from all this jollity.

The type of tree isn't really the point, anyway.

Frank has probably got a tree identification chart Orca. I have got one too.

...and make it soon...

Frank I believe that inside your ^bolshy^ persona there is a bag of laughs bursting to get out. Surprise us...please!

How do you know it's a maple Frank?

( was to jingl, BTW)

Oh york46! What a cri de coeur. Perhaps someone will – I hope so. I had the reverse problem when I moved from London. I had masses of plants, including some well-established shrubs in pots on my paved patio. My buyers insisted that they should be removed but I knew there was insufficient room for all of them in the little paved yard in my new house. Consequently, a neighbour and I transplanted almost all of them in the little park opposite where I lived and I understand that some of them at least have flourished.

Something really nice is going to happen on Sunday!