{"id":4233,"date":"2011-09-11T23:31:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T23:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2011-09-17T23:00:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T23:00:55","slug":"goodbye-weed-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/goodbye-weed-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Weed-Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some decades ago, Icelanders discovered that certain poplar trees (aspir<\/a>, see for example\u00a0Populus trichocarpa<\/a><\/em>) grew very quickly even on wind-crazed bare land and as a result they were planted everywhere. \u00a0These days people have started to view the poplars as almost weeds in\u00a0habituated\u00a0areas, because they have insane roots, and will spawn other poplars using their massive root system. \u00a0They are quite hardy too.<\/p>\n

We knew from the start that we had one poplar in the garden of our new place, and on this beautiful day, we cut it down and poisoned it, in an attempt to get rid of it. \u00a0We did this because we’d found lots of mini-poplars around the big poplar, probably spawned because the previous owner had trimmed the poplar considerably about a year or so ago and it had felt threatened.<\/p>\n

Some pictures:<\/p>\n

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The tree and our side of the duplex.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I used the opportunity to cut down much of this pine tree, so that we could at least see around the corner.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Finnur and Halli putting the chain back on after it fell off. They leased this saw, but didn't buy a new chain for it. It was almost utterly useless!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Finnur doing his manly thing.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It didn't take too long to bring the top down. Shortly thereafter Halli went and got his parents' chain saw, which was in excellent shape. Cutting down the rest of the tree was a breeze.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Some decades ago, Icelanders discovered that certain poplar trees (aspir, see for example\u00a0Populus trichocarpa) grew very quickly even on wind-crazed bare land and as a result they were planted everywhere. \u00a0These days people have started to view the poplars as almost weeds in\u00a0habituated\u00a0areas, because they have insane roots, and will spawn other poplars using theirRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4243,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions\/4243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}