Looking for a trouble free tree

Thanks for your earlier replies...

My aunt ( a very old person) has a house in California...

She has had the home over 18 years now.

She is going to kill the 2 trees because the roots are impacting the
foundation of the home and lifting the concrete. One the trees had
roots that popped up all over the lawn...

But she is going to plant another (young) tree in front portion of the
home.

What tree should she plant ?

She does not want another tree whose roots will trouble her a few years
down the line.

Can anyone suggest a trouble free tree?

Thanks
Rita

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Yew.

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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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To grow in California? Why do you think we would know in the UK?

Yew.

Until your neighbours goat eats some of it. A bit too toxic really.

Many of the dwarf conifers like juniper are pretty harmless. Flowering
cherry isn't bad either. But avoid things that attract sap sucking insects.

Slow growing trees that will ultimately be huge and become a real menace
are usually OK for the first few decades.

Regards,
Martin Brown

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To grow in California? Why do you think we would know in the UK?
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Be fair: Rita's also asked in the US group rec.gardens (and received
a typically insulting reply from the vile menace who haunts such
places: maybe she hoped we'd be more courteous). I'm sure you'll get
some help there, Rita. Aunt should also talk to a trustworthy local
nursery.

It's fair enough to tap worldwide experience for a lot of gardening
problems -- how many British garden plants are natives, after all? I
agree, though, that this was one of those questions we wouldn't be
able to help with purely on Brit Is experience -- but there are
people here with experience in other places, too.

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Martin Brown wrote:
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
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from contains these words:

Can anyone suggest a trouble free tree?

To grow in California? Why do you think we would know in the UK?
[...]

Be fair: Rita's also asked in the US group rec.gardens (and received
a typically insulting reply from the vile menace who haunts such
places: maybe she hoped we'd be more courteous). I'm sure you'll get
some help there, Rita. Aunt should also talk to a trustworthy local
nursery.

It's fair enough to tap worldwide experience for a lot of gardening
problems -- how many British garden plants are natives, after all? I
agree, though, that this was one of those questions we wouldn't be
able to help with purely on Brit Is experience -- but there are
people here with experience in other places, too.

Yes, but if we encourage people to use urg to tap into the assorted non-
UK-gardening experience of urglers, people will start giving advice
based on non-UK conditions without making that clear, and that will be
confusing for people who don't have the gardening knowledge to realise
the advice they're being given is not valid for the UK.

Eventually, there is the danger that the non-UK content will completely
swamp the UK content, and we will have lost the benefits of a UK based
gardening group.


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Kay
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