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45ft tree crashes down next to homes (From Daily Echo)
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45ft tree crashes down next to homes
5:08pm Friday 28th December 2012 in News
By Michael Carr, Reporter
Janet Kiddler pictured with the tree
HOUSEHOLDERS had a narrow escape when a 45ft tree came crashing down just feet from their Southampton homes.
The tree smashed through two fences and destroyed a garden shed when it fell across three gardens in Maybush.
Grandmother-of one Janet Kiddler, 79, was in the kitchen when the eucalyptus tree came smashing through her fence.
But the damage was even greater in neighbour Eileen Bell’s garden, where the tree went through her shed when it came down in a storm on Christmas Day.
Mrs Kiddler said: “I was lucky that I wasn’t in the garden.
“When I turned round and saw the tree and the fence I was just shaking.
“It’s the worst Christmas present I have ever had.”
Grandmother Mrs Bell, 74, added: “I just screamed when I saw the damage.
I was away in London and to go home to that is horrible.
“I was lucky that I wasn’t there.”
The tree was due to be removed today.
Comments(8)
Of the Ilk
says...
5:38pm Fri 28 Dec 12
nedscrumpo wrote:Where does your information come from? Everything I can find says the roots are extensive and deep.
Who let a shallow-rooted, evergreen tree grow that tall?
Stillness
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5:43pm Fri 28 Dec 12
MGRA
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6:26pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Of the Ilk wrote:no they are not. The tap roots go deep but the anchoring roots are shallow. These trees are not adapted to our climate and deciduous-type softer soils over clay. They evolved in much harder soils and would rarely last in the wild past a decade or more.... These trees ofter fall down in the UK....
nedscrumpo wrote:Where does your information come from? Everything I can find says the roots are extensive and deep.
Who let a shallow-rooted, evergreen tree grow that tall?
nedscrumpo
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8:13pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Of the Ilk wrote:Eucalyptus Tree Care
nedscrumpo wrote:Where does your information come from? Everything I can find says the roots are extensive and deep.
Who let a shallow-rooted, evergreen tree grow that tall?
www.buzzle.com/artic
les/eucalyptus-tree-
care.htmlThey have a shallow root system, so one should plant them in an area protected from high winds.
Lockssmart
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8:57pm Fri 28 Dec 12
chunky_lover
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10:44pm Fri 28 Dec 12
Scatgirl
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5:47pm Sat 29 Dec 12
nedscrumpo says...
5:15pm Fri 28 Dec 12