Last winter we decided that the so-called "Aspen" was really a "Cottonwood" and needed to go before it started growing up inside our house, besides in a wind storm it bashed the house.
So, one fine clear, cold day we had it and it's Aspen neighbor cut down! It was truly scary watching this totally agile, able and adorable young man climb to the very top and start cutting it back to the ground. Wish I'd taken photos but I didn't want to scare him.
He was very professional and the crew had it down, cut into fireplace lengths and the brush chipped in about two hours.
They warned me that the trees would send out suckers from their roots! Ah ha, did they ever!
We had no idea that the roots had ventured so far.
But we would have had a mini forest in the planter, to say nothing of the surrounding ground level area. Those 40 suckers in the ground had reached a height of 6 feet in about three months. No water added.
Talk about a plants' need to survive. So I say to all of you who have lost trees due to the fires, the hurricanes, the flooding or any other catastrophe, just wait they will be back.
