Fast Growing Trees

I was sick and tired of the decreasing privacy in my neighborhood. When I first moved there, it was a virtually deserted patch of idyllic countryside. There were no neighbors for half a mile in either direction, and the neighbors that there were were very quiet and kept to themselves. We had no fences because we didn't need them. It wasn't even important to know where our property line boundaries lay. Basically, the whole area around us was ours to explore. We had no fences or boundaries.

When the neighbors moved in, we needed a solution fast. They built a huge, obnoxious looking house that loomed over ours like a hulk. At first we thought of putting up fences, but we knew that they would not be tall enough. That is when we hit upon the idea of employing fast growing trees. We put in some fast growing poplar trees and watched them start to grow. It was amazing how rapidly they spurted up. I would have expected the fast growing trees to take a decade, but within a couple seasons, they were already noticeably increasing our privacy.

We were so happy, in fact, that we investigated a few other fast growing tree strains. Different fast growing trees are good for different purposes. We decided to get some fast growing spruce trees to form a solid boundary behind the house. I have always loved the way that spruce looks, and I figured that it would be nice to have a few additional barriers between us and any future neighbors before they moved in. It turns out that that was a good plan. By the time the fast-growing trees really started to take off, there was already another house going up behind ours. The fast growing trees would be tall enough by the time construction was finished.

Privacy wasn't our only concern. A lot of our land was fallow prairie land with nothing very tall growing in any direction. I love to sit outside and contemplate the afternoon, so I decided to put in some fast growing shade trees. I bought an oak tree to go up in front of the house. Although it wasn't one of the fastest growing trees, I knew that it would only be a few years before it was tall enough to provide some shade. I knew that a big, majestic oak would definitely be worth the wait. I was ready to watch my fast growing trees blossom.

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