A year ago, without telling me and cutting significantly into my property line, my neighbor cut multiple branches from my avocado tree.
This year he wanted to cut the remaining branches far above the roofline that hang over the wall and I told him absolutely not.
I hired someone instead and explicitly told them to only cut up to the property line and not past it and sadly, they chopped up multiple branches.
WTF is wrong with people?!
Anyways, the tree is now fairly lopsided and has lost multiple large branches on one side. It's now fairly narrow and I'm now afraid it will start dying and/or be susceptible to breakage in high winds.
This tree is over 40 years old as are all my trees and I do so much to protect them so I'm very concerned.
What can I do at this point? Should I expect the tree to start dying? It's full of bees at this time of year which is great but I'm just very worried the tree won't ever recover.
by MeanSeaworthiness6
2 Comments
I think your mistake was not hammering the neighbor when they cut your tree initially. The structure is ruined, I’m not sure it’ll die, but it just looks kind of stupid.
Did the company you hired take off branches that didn’t extend over the property line at all, or did they just follow the branches back and make a proper cut at a collar instead of making bad heading cuts on the property line? If it’s just making proper cuts, then it’ll be better for the long term structure. If they just hacked it back, I can’t really defend them.