Aww, but I like the populus trees! Even though I'm allergic to them! They're annoying in a garden, but they are sort of holding my house on the mountainside, and their biology is pretty cool. Sure we have to battle for elbow room, but so it goes, I guess.

Although when I was working at the library it would get a little obnoxious when the cottonwood fuzz actually looked like snow cover. Oh, the sneezing.