dirtylibrarian | tree stress, some relief

I've been very concerned about the willow in my front yard. When I bought the house, it was wee and quite cute. (And wow...look how green the lawn once was!) At the time, I hoped it would get big enough that I couldn't see the old guy across the street peering at me from his windows. Now you can't even see his house!

lara7 calls it the Womping Willow. It is creeping over the walk in a bad way. I'm more worried about it reaching the lines above (which it appears to have this summer).

But there is some good news. A few months ago my friend Paul sent me a link to the city's Sewer Card lookup. This is brilliant. It shows you where the sewer line runs (The red lines...I added the tree and blacked out the numbers). I was totally worried that the willow was digging down into my sewer line. My neighbor (same guy) had warned me the sewer ran under the next door driveway. And it is totally true! A pain if it ever needs to be dug up, but very unlikely to be impacted by tree roots. Hooray!

Next step - contact PlantAmnest for advice.