Need some advice please!

[karlton]

Hi there,

Been a member of this great forum a while but this is my first post so thanks for all advice in advance!

 

Basically i am a landscape gardener and one of my customers has asked me to have a look at a tree in his garden. He would like to keep it if possible and wants it to be held up by stakes, but this seems dangerous to me.

 

So in a nutshell do i need to get someone in to take it down? can it be topped? or am i wrong in thinking it cant be held with the stakes?

 

Pics of the tree attached.

 

Any of your proffesional thoughts and opinions would be appreciated.

 

Regards Karl

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

Its a Eucalyptus Tree.

 

I would just cut it down and re-plant.

 

If you are landscaper and don't have you nptc units or ppe you could just use a silky ( hand saw )for that tree as its skinny.

[Ian Leach]

Cut down and replant or maybe dig up and replant, also looks like there is a bit of friction on the other one where the tree strap is.

[felixthelogchopper]

Aren't they both a bit close to the house for comfort?

[Bundle 2]

Euclypts can be maintained in bonsai stature with ease and take well to being kept in check...Being evergreen they dont look too bad if done from an early stage...

Having said that...they would need to be kept in check judging by their proximity to the building. Wrong choice of species for this location IMO and having said that, they put in 2 trees right next to each other!

Bonsai and hope for the best or remove and replant.

If you chose the dig 'em up route it would be a plan to root prune around them in season 1, and dig them up proper in season 2. This perpetuates a proliferation of fibrous rooting mass ( feeder roots) and will increase the success rate of transplanting them .

 

(PS. I cant quite make it out but if the garden boundary is a wall with foundations then it only serves to strengthen the case for removal...)

[Mozza]

Fell both Euc's and replant with something nice and slow growing or a couple of rodi's or some other flowering bush type thing (Technical term)

 

Too close to the house to be planting trees there imo

[Mick Stockbridge]

Cut it down as low as you can leaving 4 or 5 growing points, re-stake then dress in what's left, do the same with the other and train over the years to create a screen from the other houses. Cheap as.

[Andy Collins]

Wrong trees, wrong place

[armchairarborist]

swing on it, might get rootball out in one go.. watch the gutter and ease it down,

[Branch walker]

Cut it down!, i wouldnt want a eucalyptus tree that close to my house!, its young at the moment but they grow fast and the wood is very heavy!!!!, ( caught me off guard a few times in my early days!!), and the ground isnt suitable if its gone over at this young stage of its life!