We have a ficus in our front yard in Arizona. The frost killed the leaves over the cold weekend. This tree is really ugly (has grown at an odd angle and is overgrown dispite recent trimming) and we'd like to get rid of it but our HOA forbids getting rid of live trees. Since the frost may have killed it off, we think now would be a good time to stealthly finish it off without neighbors being suspicious but we don't want any of the other flora or fauna around it to be affected. How do you kill a tree without hurting the other vegetation?
2007-01-17 03:41:14 · 8 answers · asked by shoshe 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
"Girdle" it. Girdling is removing a strip of bark (1 - 2 inches wide) from the entire circumference of the tree. To increase the kill time, paint the stripped area with straight, undiluted, Roundup. HOA's create an oral vacuum!!
2007-01-17 04:20:48 · answer #1 · answered by reynwater 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah -- like ca_survey... says. Or, to make sure it is dead, drill some holes near the base and keep filling the holes with RoundUp. Shouldn't take long to being unquestionably dead.
Being bold is the key I think. Find your replacement tree and set it near the planting site. Cut the Ficus, and dispose of its pieces parts. With out stopping the work detail, dig the hole for the new tree and get that tree into the ground the same day the Ficus came out. Many folks won't even know the switch has been made. And like the HOA works in my neighborhood, unless a neighbor has made a complaint, the HOA doesn't come around until their scheduled monthly cruise. If the HOA bi-laws state that you must replace like with like -- then they gotcha. If not -- hey you're home free because you pronounced the Ficus as DFF (Dead From Freeze).
2007-01-17 04:11:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a landscape designer who has spent lots of time in Phoenix I have to say I can't agree to kill that ficus. First off - anything that actually grows in AZ should be encouraged - the leaves will come back and now is the time to prune the tree properly to give it a good shape. Unfortunately I have been asked this question by clients before and there is no good way to kill a tree without causing collateral damage. If you can get neighbour approval then digging out is the only way. Try to keep it and just give it a good hard pruning (to the shape you desire)
2007-01-17 04:32:14 · answer #3 · answered by candy v 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why on earth would you feel the neighbors are concerned about the plants in YOUR front yard? Just go out and whack the tree and put something else in its place.
Unless your HOA has specific guidelines for HOW a dead tree is supposed to be dealt with, if someone does ask simply tell them it was dead .
What is the worst that could happen... ? They could send you a nasty letter and make you pay the cost of a replacment ficus.?
2007-01-17 03:53:03 · answer #4 · answered by ca_surveyor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-17 09:07:07 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i might say if it exchange into merely the ficus then you certainly are over reacting slightly, yet whilst there are different issues then you certainly are probable justified. merely undergo in ideas that in case you're extreme approximately her son then you certainly will could detect a thank you to positioned up together with her. i don't comprehend the type to get her to returned off, that form of guy or woman does not hear in case you tried to speak to her. the only element i will assert is to attempt and detect a thank you to not permit it get to you, by way of fact if she understands of ways it bothers you she could attempt greater good just to annoy you.
2016-12-16 06:48:38 · answer #6 · answered by pfarr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Over-prune it a few times. If that does not work, hang a few bird houses from it and drill lots of holes right through the core of the trunk to mount them. That will usually do it.
2007-01-17 03:52:10 · answer #7 · answered by crossbones668 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ask your local garden center
2007-01-17 04:17:49 · answer #8 · answered by tlc 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋