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The Tree That Took Its Job Too Seriously

In a quiet Cleveland suburb, a homeowner named Dave planted a fast-growing hybrid poplar in the soggiest corner of his backyard. He’d read somewhere that it “drank like a camel,” which sounded perfect for his puddle-prone lawn. The tree, later named “Guzzler,” took that reputation personally. By week two, Guzzler was slurping groundwater like it was competing in a root…

The Tree That Thought It Was a Sump Pump

There once was a maple tree named Marv who lived in a Cleveland backyard that was wetter than a Lake Erie shoreline in April. Every spring, the yard turned into a squishy, shoe‑stealing swamp. The homeowner, Mrs. Kowalski, was convinced the ground was plotting against her. One day, after yet another rainstorm, Marv felt his roots sitting in cold groundwater…

A backyard tree fiasco. A nearly true story about a squid, a dog, and a flying axe that happened to one of our clients.

It all started with a thud. One windy day, our backyard transformed from a quiet corner into a disaster zone when a mighty old oak tree, once the pride of our landscape, fell with a crash. It lay there, trunk and branches sprawled across the ground, roots sticking out like the hair of an ’80s rock star. A mysterious hole….

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