Those trees sound like a neighbour might’ve poisoned them once new people moved in. Just sounds suss to me the timing etc
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Bluerendar@kbin.social 6 months agoI followed some arborist's ch on YT for a while and man, people really butcher trees when they don't know what they're doing. It's quite sad given how much a tree affects a property's price, I feel bad that you effectively got ripped off like that. I don't think many appraisers would know their shit either so that sorta thing is just being SoL I guess...
veroxii@aussie.zone 6 months ago
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m pretty sure the horrendous drought we had last couple years and the 105-110 degree summers did them in.
We’re the second owners so the lady who lived here before us had to have loved those trees. She and her husband built this place and raised their kids here. She continued to live here until he died. She seemed genuinely elated to be selling to another young couple looking to build a family instead of some corpo or landlord or flipper. Nice lady.
I don’t think anyone caught that first tree was probably dying at closing. Oh well. It sucks but what’re you gonna do? As for the second one, the last few summer have been brutal and dry here. We didn’t do anything to the trees. We did cut back on watering the lawn because of the drought. I think the poor old thing just couldn’t take it anymore.
We’re in Oklahoma, and the Eastern Redbud is our state tree. One of the neighbors has one, and when it starts seeding again, I’m going to ask if I can collect some seed pods so we can try to get a few going. They’re really hardy here and a local tree should produce seeds that are best adapted to the local climate. I miss those two trees, but for those couple weeks a year, when the redbuds are in bloom, I think the beauty of that will be an acceptable consolation.