Stumped

It’s hard to know whether you can cut down or lop a tree in my local council region.

One thing is for sure; if you ask the default answer will be no.

So on the weekend I manually, with a hand saw, lopped a big old murraya down to a stump.

It was good old-school, Czech proverb style, manual labour for a man.

It’s a philosophical debate whether a murraya is a tree or a shrub.

And I wonder if shrubs can be removed without permission.

I do know that murrayas will regrow from stumps; they can’t be stopped.

So until I remove the stump I don’t think any by-laws have been breached.

In any case if a murraya is chopped down and the council didn’t see it, did it happen?