But, tree roots have grown over the area, making new plots impossible.
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It is true, they say, that tree roots can trap sliding soil but only for shallow landslides of up to a metre in depth.
This is the period of time that the cicada nymphs remain underground, feeding on sap from tree roots until their biological alarm-clocks go off.
The subspecies of cicadas known as Brood X has been underground for the last 17 years, tapped into tree roots, feeding and fattening up.
Now, in many older neighborhoods, the urban forest has matured, making our suburban spaces shadier, and increasingly our garden understory is affected by tree roots.
New York has experienced only 2.06 inches of rain the past 20 days after a winter that set records for snow, which funneled water to tree roots.
The road wound down to a barn and an open field, and then out of the sun and into the woods, where we ran over tree roots and pine needles.
"My father always expected he could be buried at his father's grave site, and it wouldn't have been an issue except for the tree roots, " he told The Associated Press.
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They must scale the near-vertical base by climbing rocks and tree roots like ladders -- or take a longer switchback trail -- and then begin an arduous hike uphill, sliding on mud and grasping at alders and shrubs to pull themselves up.
Brighton council said the tree's roots were damaging the pavement and blocking the view of the pedestrian crossing.
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The tree debate has roots in Connecticut's history and its geology.
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Those eggs are deposited in the tree's branches, but when they hatch (which they do two weeks after being laid), the resulting larvae fall to the ground and tunnel down to the tree's roots, from which they suck their sustenance.
Whether filming hippos in the clear water of Mzima Spring, flamingo chicks in a dried-out soda lake or the complex layers of life within a massive baobab tree, the Roots always let their subjects tell their own stories making astonishing discoveries along the way.
Having planted themselves centuries ago, the tree's serpentine roots pry apart the ancient stones and their immense trunks straddle the once bustling Buddhist temple.
They will also do badly if the tree has old, gnarled roots, rather than young, succulent ones.
Today, it is blissfully quiet - though back in town, on the elegant Rue St-Louis, there is a cannonball still wedged in the roots of a tree that is said to date from that battle.
Eyes half closed, I reached out for a jug of wine cradled in the roots of the tree and dreamed... dreamed of a row of mole hills, beneath each of which lay 400 litres of wine.
And then there is the strange life force of the Delphos, the way its hem pools on the ground like the spreading roots of a tree, and how the vertical pleating begins to look like bark.
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Grasses are well adapted to fire, being able to resprout quickly from their roots and thus outcompete tree seedlings.
The roots of the crime tree, rather than the twigs at the top.
"X Marks the Spot" is a song on Sample's 2002 Album, "The Pecan Tree, " dedicated to his Houston roots.
If roots show signs of decay, the tree should probably come down.
Chen said tree and vegetable seedlings also have been pulled up by the roots from family fields.
Several historians, when confronted with the question, speculated that the basketball bracket could have its roots in another organizational art form: the family tree.
The Treehotel is the unintended legacy of a 2008 Swedish documentary called "Tradalskaren" (The Tree Lover) that tells the story of three men who build a tree house near Harads in an attempt to rediscover their rural roots after years of living in a city.
Over the past month, the periodical cicadas of Brood XIII, native to the area, have crawled up roots, through the earth's surface and onto tree trunks everywhere, to moult and spread wings.
If the roots extend past three feet, chances are good that they can support the tree.
But a tree cannot be healthy if the branches are overburdened, the trunk is damaged, or the roots are weak.
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