PSA: Trees grow

[beatrice_otter]

No, really.  I know this will come as a great shock, but they do.  At least, this seems to have been a foreign concept to the woman who built our house and landscaped the 8.5 acres it sits on.  She loved all these ornamental and rare trees, and got a lot of them to put in certain areas.  And the nurseries she got the trees from told her how far apart the trees needed to be, and she decided that that was wrong because the trees looked so far apart when she laid them out that way, so she put them much closer together.  Twenty-five years later, things are ... dire.  The most spectacularly bad example: a Sequoia with four other trees within a thirty foot radius of its trunk.  Of all these wonderful trees she planted, probably a third need to get taken out, and of course they're much too big to transplant now.