That’s a shame. I don’t like seeing trees cut down unnecessarily, but our neighbours just had to do the same to a birch for the same reasons. Fortunately our little flowering cherry is easy to look after
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We'll plant new ones and we still have three others, but the walnut was a gem. Also was so nice to have afternoon tea under it, in summer.
Next door has a mature Magnolia that used to provide us excellent cover for al fresco wine drinking in the summer. Sadly they hacked it back last year