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Eucalyptus tree
Have recently bought a house with a eucalyptus tree in the front garder. It seems far too big for the samll space its growing in and blocks out light indoors. Have been told that they are very quick growing and can be cut back quite fiercely - does anyone have any experience of this - am tempted to get rid of it altogether...
Many thanks,
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I planted a 2' high tree in 1990 and it is now 60' tall.....i have never seen anything grow so quick in 25 years of profesional gardening !!!
I find it incredible how many people get fooled into buying and planting eucalyptus trees in small gardens and i blame it mostly on garden centres for not giving sufficient info on the trees they sell, young trees are very pretty with delicate silver/blue leaves, but what people are not told is that this is just its juvinile foliage and this will change after a few short years and completely outgrow all but the largest of gardens.
Fortunately it can be cut virtually down to ground level (coppiced) and it will redily send up new shoots which can be easily managed to the required hight-spread. The new sucker growth will also have the small juvenile folliage.
Maybe you can try cutting it back first before you decide whether to get rid of it all together..