Pulsegleaner
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If moving Japanese maples that big was easy, I'd have long since talked my parents into hiring one to move a couple of ours around. They're lovely trees, but most of my best are natural grown plants on their own roots, so they exist in not very good places long term (that is, they are fine right now, but a lot are in places were at some point in the future they'll need to be totally removed before their roots cause permanent damage to something else (our driveway in one case, the actual road in another*.) And rooting cuttings seems to be harder than I thought.
Note these are old photos from mid summer, when nethier tree is at it's best. In the spring the second one has leaves that are almost lemon yellow, the first ones that are basically black (the second also goes a particularly brilliant red in the fall, not the standard purply red of Japanese maples but a bright erythrine coral.).
* The second is of the greater concern. Since the road is public property, and the space between the road on which the tree is places is also where some of the electrical poles are, the tree technically sits in the property zone where Con Ed has the right to trim as they feel is needed to protect the lines. At this point that tree is too short to come anywhere near touching the lines so is in no danger. But Con Ed has been developing a nasty reputation around here of trying to be proactive and adopting a "scorched earth policy, making all land within twenty feet of any pole a complete dead zone devoid of ANY trees. (sort of ironic, city rules prohibit us from removing or even trimming trees without village permission (even if they are diseased or dead) but Con end gets carte blanche to do whatever it wants without censure or an ability to appeal.
Note these are old photos from mid summer, when nethier tree is at it's best. In the spring the second one has leaves that are almost lemon yellow, the first ones that are basically black (the second also goes a particularly brilliant red in the fall, not the standard purply red of Japanese maples but a bright erythrine coral.).
* The second is of the greater concern. Since the road is public property, and the space between the road on which the tree is places is also where some of the electrical poles are, the tree technically sits in the property zone where Con Ed has the right to trim as they feel is needed to protect the lines. At this point that tree is too short to come anywhere near touching the lines so is in no danger. But Con Ed has been developing a nasty reputation around here of trying to be proactive and adopting a "scorched earth policy, making all land within twenty feet of any pole a complete dead zone devoid of ANY trees. (sort of ironic, city rules prohibit us from removing or even trimming trees without village permission (even if they are diseased or dead) but Con end gets carte blanche to do whatever it wants without censure or an ability to appeal.
