And why do you like it so much?

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    I love monkey puzzle trees! They look like they’d be so easy to climb

    I don’t like trying to climb them though

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    there’s this one tree in a park nearby that I used to climb on as a kid, id say that’s my favorite tree

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    Aspen. Having lived and vacationed in Colorado in the past made my wife and I fall in love with them for their color in the fall. We’ve traveled back just to see them.

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    Despite being really really invasive here in Europe, I love the Staghorn Sumac.

    It’s very pretty, with great flowers and soft furry branches (like antlers). You can make an amazing “lemonade” from the fruits and you can eat the shoots raw.

    And eating the shoots raw is a great idea, because it branches out like crazy. If your neighbors have one of these, you’ll soon have half a dozen too.

    They also grow pretty fast, and the wood is super pretty (and super curvy, so you won’t be making any boards out of it)

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      I love sumac too!

      They do grow fast- sumac can give shade in a sunny spot in a single year.

      The way light comea through the leaves is so soothing.

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    I used to live in a rickety flat that had a single old creaky staircase to get up to the front door, and a little grassy terrace area. Only I really ever used the grassy bit. The stairs had a pohutakawa tree growing essentially right through them, making walking up or down them hazardous. Especially when drunk.

    I would not classify that period of my life to be “happy” by any stretch, but that tree signified being “home.” It was like the guardian to my space. A physical barrier between me and the shitshow that was the rest of the world at that time. An almost literal gatekeeper (many people were too scared to walk up the stairs lol)

    Added bonus, year end holidays, and the height of summer were vividly and brightly different thanks to the red needles they drop everywhere around that time.

    It wasn’t until the landlord told me he was planning to have it cut down, and I had an almost physical reaction that I realized how much I loved that tree. I managed to convince him not to have it cut down until after I’d left.

    Both the tree and the flat are now gone. A multi million dollar new build is there now.

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      I’ve read 500 page novels that have touched me less than these 5 paragraphs.

      Thank you for sharing this story.

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      Both the tree and the flat are now gone. A multi million dollar new build is there now.

      SO PISSED AT THIS. God the company men…

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        So am I honestly, but to be fair, that place was a dump.

        The foundations were subsiding, so the whole flat was on a pretty significant lean. I’m not exaggerating when I say it was easily 5 degrees off level. Think Lilly and Marshall’s apartment in HIMYM.

        The building itself was 3 stories. I was on 2nd, and the 3rd was completely uninhabitable due to the roof being swiss cheese. I knew I was about to get kicked out when the ceiling started leaking in my bedroom whenever it rained.

        I could go on and on. The electrics were sketchy, my toilet leaked into the downstairs kitchen, etc etc etc. It really was trash, and would have probably cost millions to repair.

        The tree itself was causing structural issues as well. It’s hard to explain, so I’ve attached an aerial view. (You might need to view it on my instance.) The grey line was a concrete retaining wall for the grassy terrace thing. You can see that the tree was right up against the house, further damaging it. I’ve also tried to illustrate what it was doing to the stairs so you can get an idea of what it was like.

        All in all, I understand why it had to go, but it still makes me sad. And not just because the flat was so cheap I could afford to live by myself in my 20s, 5 minutes from the CBD

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    There was a HUGE oak tree at my grandma’s house. I mean it was MASSIVE covering like the whole yard and was like 5 feet in diameter.
    I grew up playing under it climbing limbs and swinging on a tire swing and a funner branch-seat swing which was lighter so it would go higher. Heres kinda how it looked:

    Anyways, in a hurricane a few years ago a large branch snapped off and it got infected and had to be chopped down :(

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    So anyway, I love those dark maples with the leaves that are so blue they’re almost black in certain light. I call them goth maples.

    Picture:

    two maple trees in autumn. The one on the left has bright orange leaves, whereas the one on the right has dark dark purple leaves

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    Weeping willow trees. We had one at my childhood home. When it was sold, the new owners tore it out. I was very sad.

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      It really is a cool tree, but man, having to walk near fallen gingko nuts every day during the autumn is kind of torture.