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Hi everyone. My DH came home from a business trip with past week with two little Japanese Maples, "Bloodgood" culitivars. I had picked out the best spot for planting them and began digging the first hole when--yes, I ran into this...
My investigations have led me to conclude it is an intact, 100 year old terracotta drain pipe (the sections which I've uncovered and you can see in the picture are about 4 feet long and were about one foot below surface). Further research (with a level) has led me to believe the drainage pipe is coming from the neighbor's downspout since the pipe runs uphill slightly towards their house.
Obviously I'm NOT going to plant a tree right on top of a drain pipe (even though it appears to be coming from the neighboring house and IS in our yard). My question is, how far away from that pipe am I going to have to site my tree in order to keep the tree roots from invading the neighbor's drain pipe someday?
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