Note: This blog is a collection of random material and is for private use only - this is digital storage of bits and pieces which shouldn't make particular sense in any other context.
Note that we purchased the property prior to it going onto the market so it was essentially not properly on and there was not proper photographs taken. This show shows the four conifers that were planted next to the house. Our first act as new owners was to have them removed by an arborist ($1200). He estimated that the trees had been in place since about 1990 on the basis of the growth rings. They had not been banded or shaped and had dead material in the centre of them. We initially had considered keeping them if possible but after a post on a New Zealand site related to trees and gardening the overwhelming consensus was to have them removed. The trees had not been controlled and had numerous parts coming out from the centre and had not been toped in some time. We had the arborist quote for the removal of the tree as noted.
Again if you view the conifers in the photograph (the article dates from 2016 although the photograph is not dated and hard to judge) you can see that they look much more manageable and shaped.
