Tree House rationale

[Baitball Blogger]

Paraphrasing: Trees are living, breathing things, which is why I like to name them, he says as he drills a two inch boring that reaches the other side of the trunk.

Then, when he sticks in a metal peg the same size of the hole he claims that the tree thinks it's another limb and will just heal and grow around it. The treehouse, you see, is making the tree stronger.

?

[Orrex]

1. That tree would strangle you in your sleep given half the chance

Drill that bastard.


Drill, baby.



Drill.

[pipi_k]

2. Well I don't know about

regular trees enjoying abuse like that, but I have a lilac bush in my front yard that refused to grow or produce flowers until I started mistreating it a little. But only because I read about that in a gardening book or whatever.

Nothing serious...just some scraping of the lower trunk bark.

Maybe a few nasty names. I think I even threatened to hybridize it with cuttings from a weeping willow.

Seems rather weird, but once I stopped treating it with kid gloves, it started growing and producing.

Another one a little farther down the hill was not in a good area and wouldn't grow. I guess they need to be abused by humans...not mother nature. Anyway, two summers ago Mr Pipi dug it up and moved it out by the pond. We didn't expect it to live.

Not only did it live, it started to grow...AND...a bit of root left behind in the original space also started to grow.

Plants are freaky sometimes...

[Grey]

3. Lilac bushes like a couple tablespoons of Epsom salts and water each year.

Mine are covered in blooms every year and have never been abused.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. What I read about Wisterias is that they

can also be forced to bloom. But you won't like the reason the author gave to explain the flowering response. He said that survival is what is on the plant's mind, and not survival as you and I would understand. But survival of the plants ability to produce seed to continue beyond the hostile environmental conditions that threatens to kill it.

Flowers are necessary to grow seed. So, what you see as a rewarding experience, is actually the plant in distress.

That's what I read, and I hate to say it, but from nature's point of view, it makes sense.

[Paulie]

4. That's how you get the Ents to show up