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Originally Posted by Buehler445

Virtually everything west of the Mississippi was cow pasture at one point, but it sounds to me like this dude is looking for someone to pay for renovations to his pond. You might try and be neighborly and see if you can plant some other kind of tree on the sidehills and in a couple years take out the cedars. Since he started the lawyering, you probably better have him sign something that indemnifies you after the tree planting, but if you can get a tree you like there, and keep his dumbass happy, it would be money better spent than a damned lawyer. And if the pond is leaking down some, there should be water available for the trees you plant.

No, he really isn't looking for renovations, they just don't want change. They were horribly upset when I built a 30x50 boat house that changed their view and really mad when one of the other neighbors built his.

I have turned the other cheek so many times with these assholes I am done with them.

Also, it is so thick, inbred and overgrown on the dam there is no room to plant anything. That is one of the main reasons I wanted to clean it up along with the ability to see the huge sycamore that is on our property but pretty much blocked out.

Originally Posted by Chiefshrink

You will regret those populars Hemi. Yes they grow fast and yes they provide a big quick curtain BUT they don't live long, maybe 15yrs and their root system ruins your yard. I made that mistake. Maybe you get lucky and I hope you do but anybody I have ever talked to that had populars cusses them to no end like I still do. Good luck.

This variety is supposed to live longer, but even at 15, it will serve our purpose greatly. I will be 81 and he should be dead!
I planted them in an area that will not matter about the yard. It is about a 40 long by 6 foot wide area I left along the property line when I had the retaining walls poured for our parking area.

Originally Posted by ndws

I've found that when planting pretty young trees and shrubs, when I used this stuff called Myke, it really made a difference when compared to the ones I didn't use it on. the local green house guy put me on to it and it seems to really work.

We've put out a couple cherry trees, a peach tree, numerous shrubs, Japanese red maple, transplanted pecans, Russian olives, and a bunch of others.

Thanks, I will check into some of that Myke. A Japanese red Maple is in my cross hairs next, this fall. Sam.s had some really large ones last week for only $54 but I think it is a little late.
Our second SIL has a pecan ranch down in Texas and sent me a dozen seedlings, but they just didn't like this soil I guess. They died right away.
I am intrigued by your Russian olives. Pictures?