The tree
The once beautiful eucalypt in my backyard is being removed. It was such a wonderful tree but in the last few months it started to die back and become dangerous, so with council permission, today it is being removed. I asked the tree people what might have caused it to die back and they said it was probably root bound and strangled is roots around itself. Got me thinking how important it is to not strangle or cut off our source of life, and to keep stretching and growing in new directions. The strangling of roots probably started well before any noticeable effects, and it's the same with is, cut off the life giving sources and we may look ok for a while, but if we don't do anything, eventually we will start to 'die back'.