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22 May 2025, 5:16 am

I'm glad I didn't sleep in a tree last night
I would have frozen my bits off

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22 May 2025, 5:20 am

There's a sycamore tree growing in my back garden. If I don't keep a careful eye on the situation, it could take over.

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22 May 2025, 5:27 am

Can't you just kill it now

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22 May 2025, 5:33 am

I'd feel a bit heartless doing that. I've done it a couple of times when they've become established next to the walls of the house, as the roots could cause problems with the foundations, but this one's in the middle of the garden. I chop it down to about two or three feet high every winter, but it then starts growing uncontrollably at around this time. I never had this issue for years, but recently these things have started appearing quite regularly.

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22 May 2025, 5:45 am

Do you think there's any danger of it lifting the house up

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22 May 2025, 6:04 am

DeepHour wrote:

There's a sycamore tree growing in my back garden. If I don't keep a careful eye on the situation, it could take over.

Train it, make it a bonsai sycamore

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22 May 2025, 6:05 am

babybird wrote:

Do you think there's any danger of it lifting the house up

Probably not, but it could easily damage the water and sewage pipes which run under the back garden. That would cause real problems and would probably cost a fortune to fix.

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22 May 2025, 6:21 am

Jeez that would be all if you got sewage coming up

Yeah maybe keep your eyes on it then like you said

I hate anything to do with burst water pipes me

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22 May 2025, 8:08 am

Yeah it's coming to temp now in here

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22 May 2025, 10:25 am

I want some delicate perennials

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