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Tree stump

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  Posted by FleetingEileenM (U14106338) on Tuesday, 16th November 2010

  A Lawson Cypress is soon to be felled in a shady corner of my back garden as it has outgrown the available space. The trunk is such a lovely shade of reddish brown that I want to keep a few feet of it as a stump.
  
  Does anyone have any creative ideas as to what I could do with it?

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  Posted by Miftrefs Laura in Lothian bufily ftitching (U2587870) on Tuesday, 16th November 2010

  Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:18 GMT, in reply to FleetingEileenM in message 1
  
  Oodles
  
  
  - use as a support to grow something gorgeous over which will show the wood's colour through it
  
  - have the tree-feller level the top, then you smooth it, sand it, oil it (imo, don't varnish but teak-oil it) and use as a table for your G&T on summer evenings
  
  - level and oil the top and mark it out into 64 squares (is it 64?) and then use a fine brush and dark colouring/ ink/ paint to do alternate ones and use it as a chess table on long lazy summer afternoons. Or a backgammon table, for choice, but I know some misguided souls prefer chess.
  
  Etc., etc...
  
  laura

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  Posted by Scoobydoo (U11966922) on Tuesday, 16th November 2010

  Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:32 GMT, in reply to Laura in Lothian with quirky strange charm in message 2
  
  Scoop out the top of the remaining part and plant in it.

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  Posted by Ell Kaye (U2222944) on Tuesday, 16th November 2010

  Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:58 GMT, in reply to FleetingEileenM in message 1
  
  First you will need to kill the stump or the tree will re-grow, drill some holes down into the top of the stump and pour neat roundup stump killer down the holes.
  
  Then you could plant a Clematis and a rose to clamber over it.

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  Posted by battybats9 (U11718321) on Tuesday, 16th November 2010

  Our neighbour had a tree taken down and had a stump of about six feet left. He got one of those people who do chainsaw carving in and had three figures carved in to the stump - an owl, a squirrel and something else - so that they stand out from the trunk (if you see what I mean).

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  Posted by posh_scouse_pinnedwithpride (U2514024) on Tuesday, 16th November 2010

  OOOOH, THERE IS ONE IN MY FAVE GRAVEYARD THAT HAS BEEN 3/4 CUT THROUGH ON THE FRONT, AND THE LAST BIT CUT A FOOT HIGHER SO IT MAKES A SEAT. [Ooops, caps lock]

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