One of the trees in our garden has died. It died last summer in the drought, but we gave it a year to prove to us it really was dead. It is. So we need to replace it.
I was wandering around the web, looking for trees, when I saw a picture of the type we wanted. The page also included a helpful impression of its mature size.
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| 6m high, 8m spread: too slim |
And a very impressionistic impression it is too. This graphic of a slim-looking tree is labelled as being 6m high, with an 8m spread. It's actually broader than it is high!
So I had a look at a few other tree graphics on the site.
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| 10m high, 10m spread: too slim |
20m high, 10m spread: too wide |
It's the exact same graphic every time, with not a single one of them using the same scale for the height and spread! Only the "human figure for scale" and the labels change. Why go to the effort of including a graphic to show the mature tree size, then not bother to do it right?
The pictures should look something more like this:
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| height/spread ratios just right |
Now it's clear we shouldn't plant our new tree too close to the fence.
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