Quote Originally Posted by Teacher Terry View Post
UL, interesting that you said fruit trees don’t live a long time. We bought our house 8 years ago with 3 mature fruit trees.
Generally speaking, small fruit trees do not live as long as big hardwood trees. It takes 15-20 years for a high quality hardwood to reach youthful maturity.

There is no “one size fits all” life span for the generic class of fruit trees.

I don’t care about being politically correct when it comes to treeism! Haha. And well, you all brought it up! So whatcha think about this tree sexism problem detailed in Scientific American? I blame not so much trees themselves as the tree loving professionals who think they know everything:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...own-allergies/

tldr: urban and exurban foresters have planted way too many male trees because they do not drop messy fruit. But they add air pollution in their excessive pollen, making humans sick. Hmmmmm...