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Is this dogwood doomed
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bc_gabruin 7b (
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Tue, May 15, 12 at 20:24
| Have been clearing out the brush by the back fence and found this dogwood seeding growing through the chainlink. Any chance it can survive or should I get the saw and shovel?
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| There's a great chance of "survival", but the question is whether the tree is worth keeping and maybe how long it will last. It's basically a weed. If you want a dogwood, just plant one and be done with it. I can't see any reason to mess with this one. Put it out of its misery and think about this situation from a logical prospective. |
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| Whether it survives depends on whether you are OK with it growing through the fence. The dogwood is fine with it. |
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| ...except that it's probably considerably weaker at the point where it meets the fence, and that may well be a problem later on. |
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| Ack! Brandon STP'ed me. I was agreeing with famartin ;) |
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| Possible Brandon, though most Dogwoods probably aren't going to grow 50 feet tall ;) |
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| Ditto. Its a dogwood. Negligible risk to life or limb. Ideally for the tree the remaining fence would be cut away from it. I suppose that is not an option though. Whoever comes by later with a chainsaw to remove it in a few decades might need a warning. Really if the tree is fine and you have a large natural area where this doesn't look odd I would just leave it. Up in my tree line there is a walnut encapsulating some old barbed wire. |
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It wants to live pretty badly.
Let it. |
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| Thanks everyone for the feedback. I think I'll leave it as is for a while and see what happens in the next few years. It is situated 20 feet from a side street on the back corner of my lot. It is at the end of a row of a half dozen dogwoods under the power line along the street. These were planted decades ago long before I lived here, and until I started cutting out ivy, privet, and hibiscus, I thought it was part of that planting. |
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| Famartin, you've completely lost me with the "50 feet tall" line. Maybe you misread/misunderstood what I wrote. Bc_gabruin, if you want to keep the tree for sentimental reasons, that's cool and something I really can understand. But, if you are just wanting a good specimen dogwood near that location, a non-compromised one planted a few feet away from the fence would look tidy-er and be much less likely to break off or take down your fence later on. It would also probably make keeping your fence row clean easier. To me, a tree growing up through a chainlink fence looks messy, but it's your place. |
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Brandon, that is to say that its not as if
A) Its going to be at the mercy of strong winds as a tall tree would be.
B) Its in danger of really hurting someone if it were to fall. |
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| the fence is doomed.. not the tree .. good luck.. and be careful.. when you decide to cut it out of there ... nothing like a chainsaw hitting chainlink ... ken |
RE: Is this dogwood doomed
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- Posted by botann z8 SEof Seattle (My Page) on
Thu, May 17, 12 at 13:02
LOL, Ken. Hitting a chainlink fence with a chainsaw is one of my worst nightmares. I did it once while doing a yard makeover for a client. I got in a hurry and the place was a jungle. It jerked the saw right out of my hands. It could have just as well flipped back and cut me bad.
I have two chainsaws and I heat my house with wood. No chainlink fences on my place! I do have 660 ft. of livestock fence topped with barbed wire I share with my neighbor and his cows and horse. I keep a DMZ about 5 ft. wide from the fence.
I think a handsaw is in order, both for the fence and to put the Dogwood out of it's misery....even though it is coping quite well.
Mike |
RE: Is this dogwood doomed
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| I would take it down - at some point - if I were you, simply because of that chainsaw issue. The point would be not to leave a situation in which the next owner of your home might remove all the visible fencing material, and the next owner after that takes a chainsaw to the tree, or the power company employee does. If coverage/privacy/shade is a big issue, plant the new tree a while before removing the old. Karin L |
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| Eh... If you leave the fence in place, I wouldn't take it down *just* because of the chainsaw issue... since its obvious that you need to watch out for it. If, however, you take the fence down, then you probably should take down the tree too, due to the chain saw issue. |
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