This is a pretty common thing in the American Midwest. You see it a lot around houses on the tops of hills, especially in new construction. It looks kinda silly for a few years but it’s the best you can do sometimes.
like i tend to always pay attention to how nice a property looks when i’m travelling past it, and good god it looks so much more enjoyable when you have a bunch of shade and greenery around you!
Properties without some sort of tree/hedge wall surrounding it out in the open just look absolutely miserable and trigger a long dormant part of my brain that fears being picked off by a giant bird.
It’s a fire and falling hazard having trees that close to the home. There are places here in California where you legally have to have a 100 foot wide firebreak around the building, like up around Mariposa.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So desperate that you’ll wait 50 years?
Wogi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Closer to 10. Yes.
This is a pretty common thing in the American Midwest. You see it a lot around houses on the tops of hills, especially in new construction. It looks kinda silly for a few years but it’s the best you can do sometimes.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
it astounds me that people don’t do this, really
like i tend to always pay attention to how nice a property looks when i’m travelling past it, and good god it looks so much more enjoyable when you have a bunch of shade and greenery around you!
Properties without some sort of tree/hedge wall surrounding it out in the open just look absolutely miserable and trigger a long dormant part of my brain that fears being picked off by a giant bird.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
It’s a fire and falling hazard having trees that close to the home. There are places here in California where you legally have to have a 100 foot wide firebreak around the building, like up around Mariposa.
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Alternatively do this with bamboo (properly contained so it doesn’t spread) and it will be giant in under 1 year
WarmSoda@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you do that though you’ll attract pandas. And they won’t even procreate in your yard. Bamboo isn’t worth the hassle.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They seem cute until you find one scurrying around your kitchen in the middle of the night.
erp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You may attract python too!
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How exactly does one properly contain bamboo at that scale
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Because Bamboo expands by sending out underground runners you have to put some type of underground barrier to stop them.
rhizomebarrier.com/how-to-contain-bamboo-a-helpfu…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 months ago
if the internet has taught me anything and it hasn’t, you can’t properly contain bamboo