In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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AMERICAN ELM
Wow, they have a HUGE crown. Casts a lot of shade, but also offers a lot of wind resistance. They take being pruned, but only in winter. Seems like a good pruning to thin out the canopy and narrow it out would solve the potential hazard, but it doesn't solve your leaf and seed- litter problem. And given how ginormous that crown is, that's a big problem!
Yanno, if your neighbors really want to keep that tree they should pay to have your gutters cleaned and your lawn raked once or twice a year.
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Yardwork for 2 1/2 hours today bc the weather is cool and cloudy. Supposed yo be almost as good tomorrow but warming up after that so I won't be spending so much time and I'll have to get out pretty early.
Still, looking forward to making progress!
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Done for today in the clouds. Still sitting at around 70F.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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AMERICAN ELM
Yeah.... erm... No. I mean, kinda. That's why it's so hard to decide what it would be. Maybe if I had a book with examples of all the different kinds right next to each other I could pick it out in a lineup.
That's what the leaves and seeds look like. But that crown looks much more like my remaining Silver Maple than it does their Elm. I would imagine their trunk goes quite a bit higher before you even get the first large limbs showing up, and it didn't really split like that into thick branches out the top with a wide crown.
If the elm in the picture were a paddle ball racquet, my neighbor's elm would be a Tootsie Pop.
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Wow, they have a HUGE crown. Casts a lot of shade, but also offers a lot of wind resistance. They take being pruned, but only in winter. Seems like a good pruning to thin out the canopy and narrow it out would solve the potential hazard, but it doesn't solve your leaf and seed- litter problem. And given how ginormous that crown is, that's a big problem!
Yanno, if your neighbors really want to keep that tree they should pay to have your gutters cleaned and your lawn raked once or twice a year.
My neighbors hardly do anything regarding regular maintenance outside beyond mowing. There's no way they're paying somebody to prune that thing, let alone paying to have my lawn taken care of.
They've got money. They're not engineers or anything, but they've both got good jobs and they've paid other people to remodel everything in their house, including tearing down an entire wall between their living room and kitchen and installing the island and dining area where the wall used to be.
I paid my $2,750 to get rid of my tree problem. I think they can swing it.
Up until the other day that tree has never been a problem for them. Because it's only a problem for me and I just take care of it.
Now they know what the stakes are. Not that I desire it, but they're probably losing sleep over that as we speak. My hope is that they just finally cut that thing down and look at it like taking out their own insurance policy.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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yay. Someone around me is cooking onions. Yuck!
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A little late at night to be cooking onions, ain't it?
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A little late at night to be cooking onions, ain't it?
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
They do that here. Doesn't matter if they aren't suppose to. They do it. They started at around 7:30 pm, my time. No fun.
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Out soon on a nice Canada day. Going to buy an air fryer hopefully. I found them on sale.
So, I have to do that first as they are heavy then go back out to get other things done.
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Back and done with air fryer. Tired now and so are hands.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A little late at night to be cooking onions, ain't it?
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
They do that here. Doesn't matter if they aren't suppose to. They do it. They started at around 7:30 pm, my time. No fun.
Aren't supposed to?
Is there some kind of cooking restriction in your building?
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