sarasquares

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Picea sitchensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I have been out and looked at all of the characteristics the link mentions and its identical


this is what i have read...

**The bark is thin and scaly, flaking off in small circular plates 5–20 cm across.**

Some of my bark has come off as we have been working round it but the bark looks as described.


**old trees may have no branches in the lowest 30–40 m**

My tree is still young but it already has no lower branches, same as the description. I cannot find any other Spruce with no lower branches.

**The cones are pendulous, slender cylindrical, 5–11 cm long and 2 cm broad when closed, opening to 3 cm broad. They have thin, flexible scales 15-20 mm long**

The cones are still small but they are long in shape and look scaley.

My tree could grow 100 meters tall


If there are any tree people here do you think this is the tree i have?

I suppose there is a good point. If the lower 30 t0 40 meters have no branches it wont be able to block out my light

Kev_turbo

You are right with the tree ID. The good thing is you don't have to worry about the height of the tree, it would have flattened your house due to the expected trunk size before you need a red light on top to warn the planes.

My advise would be to get rid of it now while it is still easy to do and replace it with something more suitable.

Kev
Tree Man

sarasquares

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Originally i got it as i wanted to create a woodland garden in part of the front garden but as its grown it has just become a skinny telegraph pole. It no longer offers any shade so its a waste of space (20cm diameter). I have just put an orange Acer in behind it but that will take years to grow, I think i am going to remove it sooner rather than later


Any ideas what i could plant without taking up too much room?

tanyatriangles

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Get it gone, who would plant a flipping pine tree that close to a house, not you, SS, surely

Anyway, get rid of it and plant a nice magnolia: slow growing, gives lovely flowers at this time of year, available in colours from white to magenta.

Or put in a bay, slow growing, use the leaves in cooking.

sarasquares

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I don't know what i thinking off when i got it. I am no longer blonde so maybe there lies the answer

I have always wanted a bay tree but the ones i want are all chained to the wall.

I have a standard olive tree in a pot that is about 2ft. I don't know how big it will grow. I need something that is tall enough not to be in the way.

How big do bay trees grow?

The spruce lives up to 450 years i think. I wonder if i could get it moved

tanyatriangles

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My old boy had a magnolia in the centre of his front lawn. He and my mum put it in in 1960 when they moved from Cleethorpes.

When he died at the end of 2006, it was about 8 feet tall and around 6 feet wide, and had LOADS of flowers on it every years.

Bay trees? dunno, but they are slow growing, the one at our French property is 20 feet, but it's WELL over 100 years old.

You could put in a small lilac too, lovely smell when it's in flower.

Or how about a camelia? Evergreen with lovely pink flowers in April.

sarasquares

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I like magnolias but the flowers don't last very long, plus it would grow too big. I have a sectioned off area for the woodland so i could have something that would over hang the fence into the main front garden.

Decisions decisions.....whats a girl to do?


It has to be a woodland tree i think to keep the theme going


What about a Tree Fern?

DCI Gene Hunt

What about a Greek statue? would compliment your leaded window a treat

sarasquares

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The whole window is going soon so shut it ugly

The seals have gone so i am having a new one without the lead this time

btw DCI, i have the real Gene Hunt following me


A greek statue

tanyatriangles

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A woodland tree? Sara, most woodland trees grow like weeds.............'cos that's what they are

sarasquares

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Oh i don't know

I am trying to capture the authenticity of it all

DCI Gene Hunt

The missing link in "Woodland Trees" is the multiple of "tree", as a single tree makes a woodland not!

sarasquares

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I beg to differ. I could day that i am going to go down the woods today but i can go to my own garden and visit the wood

DCI Gene Hunt

"The Wood" is still referring to multiple trees, not "a" tree

sarasquares

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In my world i have a single wood

DCI Gene Hunt

I get that sometimes

john_s

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Do you get bears crapping in it?

No?... It might not be a wood...

sarasquares

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Does the pope wear white?

mart360

Sarah,

From what you see of your tree above ground... the roots are the same distance underground.!!!

Right under your foundations!!!!

Did nobody tell you it wasnt really a good idea to plant a tree that close to

the house? Time to make firewood methinks


Mart

sarasquares

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The tree was only little when i planted it

It is going to come down this weekend, should be fun

vindaloo

Good idea to get it cut down...

If it's a northern continental jobbie, they grow like b*ggery in our temperate climate. Unfortunately, than means they grow weak, far less strong than the Scandinavian equivalents.

So probably a good idea to cut it down before it gets blown down.

Carlsberg wouldn't do it this way. :P

Leslie

Have it away Sara, before its too late.

Les