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This is no place for tall dark and dangerous trees
• OVER recent decades, there has been an obsession about planting and nurturing trees anywhere and everywhere.
This started following the devastation of the rain forests and, fair enough, much of that is an environmental tragedy.
However, the rain forests are in a continent at the heart of the equatorial tropics.
Britain is a little island in a maritime setting many latitudes north. We do not want more foul weather and lashings of rain, thanks.
I have a theory, though I hope to be proven wrong.
I believe that trees make it rain and the abundance of trees, spreading like triffids over this little isle, might be causing the torrential downpours and consequent flooding we have suffered in recent years.
Large trees have a place in woodland, or sparingly in open spaces where their natural shape can develop and be appreciated.
But not in our cities, thanks, where large trees are a menace, rooting up and obstructing pavements, shutting out sunlight, making our houses dark and gloomy and finally now crashing down almost fatally upon a lorry in Lyndhurst Road, NW3 (Driver hurt as tree falls into street, April 23).
Of course we need green areas in our cities.
But please let us have trees of modest size such as almond, cherry or apple, which are attractive, cheerful and low maintenance.
Maggie Milner
Address supplied, N6
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