I see this happen so often, and would love to save someone a bit of headache down the road. When you are planting a shrub, tree, evergreen, etc. next to your house, be sure to find out what the spread of the tree is at maturity. And plant your shrub so this spread will clear the eaves! Yes, there will be quite a bit of space between that plant and the house, but you can fill it in with annuals or even small perennials. Hope this saves someone from a frustrating (and costly!) mistake! :!:
Really sound advice Mary. I wish some folks around here had thought about what they were doing when planting large trees and shrubs so near to their houses. Quite a few of them suffered badly when the gales tore the roots from the ground and the falling limbs and trunks damaged their rooves.
