More Nor'easter Wreckage, Prospect Heights Edition
And you thought your house got hit hard by the torrential rains of the last two days! A reader sent in this photo of the tree that used to stand in her back yard. Since it’s as tall as a five-story house it reached as far as four-yards away when it toppled yesterday. The estimated…
And you thought your house got hit hard by the torrential rains of the last two days! A reader sent in this photo of the tree that used to stand in her back yard. Since it’s as tall as a five-story house it reached as far as four-yards away when it toppled yesterday. The estimated cost of removal? $1,800. It’s pretty amazing it didn’t crush any fences or nice garden furniture. (Gotta love those 130-foot lots they got over there.)
Rain, Rain, Go Away [Brownstoner]
By the way don’t have chelsea garden center do any work, they areFreakin expensive
Oh, I meant to say in response to Bob999, that he is right, there are no alleys and the entire tree had to be sawed up and brought partially through my house, and partially through my neighbor’s house. But most of it was taken out by rolling a chain link fence back on one side of my neighbor’s property through a neighboring condo’s
common area. What a mess. The guys who did it worked from 8 am till 6 pm and I am still in awe of them.
When I bought my house, it had two HUGE trees in the backyard. One, the Norway maple, stretches over 7 properties. The other, a silver maple, was huge, like this one, and leaned over into a neighbor’s property with two leaders — one stretching into their backyard and one over their roof. The short version of the story is I got the silver maple checked out and it was very rotten inside. I got multiple bids to have it taken down and it wound up costing me 2500 to take it down (God bless those guys who swung around on ropes to do it) and 1000 to have the stump taken out. I had the other tree trimmed of dead branches, which cost me 1500 dollars. Who knew these damn trees would cost so much. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that the existing tree is in good shape and the other one wasn’t around to crash down on anyone or anyone’s property. It is sad to see such a large old tree felled, but it would be a hell of a lot sadder if it did serious damage to the house, someone in the house, a pedestrian, a parked car, or someone in a parked car.
These people were very lucky.
About those metal chain-link fences: My neighbor and I planted ivy along the base of the fence between our yards and wove the vines through the links. It took about two growing seasons to turn the fence into a green wall. We’ve since added honeysuckle (for the perfume) and sweet autumn clematis (flowers in early autumn). You can’t see the chain-link fence at all any more. The vertical garden gives us privacy (there are still spots where the foliage is low enough so we can talk over the fence)… and it’s a lot prettier than a stockade fence.
Sorry, NOT in the picture above, in the backyards where I live in CH. I’d love to look out at the scene pictured, believe me.
“Why the owners of these lovely old houses have such shitty, and I mean SHITTY, dead, garbage filled backyards is totally beyond me”
Where is the garbage?
Metal fences work well with sun rays.
When I moved into my house in Clinton Hill there was years worth of broken windows, pottery and assorted garbage burried in the backyard. I have no idea how the former owners lived with it that way- they even had young children.
i think judging any of the particular backyards in this picture is a bit unfair. it’s barely spring. as an avid lanscaper and gardener, i don’t think they look nearly as horrible as some of you say. by june, i’m sure they’ll look a ton better. sure, chain link fence isn’t my fave, but that is what most people have. as for the rest…we are barely out of winter. give the plants a chance before you banish them as hideous and unkempt.