There's a Mantis tiller commercial showing frail, elderly women easily carrying one. Me, well elderly but not appearing to be frail, can barely lift it or pull the cord.

One time I cracked up a phone screener for a garden talkshow when I said, if I didn't have weeds I wouldn't have any ground cover at all.

Another time I was in a line of customers at a nursery to ask about a hanging plant. A questioner in front of me had a sort of similar question, and the nursery dude rather reprimandingly said to her, "Ma'am, do you realize we have a constant 35 mph wind from the southeast, which is like hanging a plant in an oven?!" I decided to tiptoe out of line.

Tulip trees are so beautiful. We had one, a long long time ago, in northern CA.

It bloomed every year without fail and we never had any problems with it.

I hope yours will continue to grow and thrive!

We had a beautiful peach tree decades ago. Frost got it. We had an ash tree. Had to chop it down...ash borers invaded it...We planted a young pine that was being dug up elsewhere. It has survived many years of exhaust fumes and odd weather. It too looks like it is going the other way. We get plenty of box elder bugs but we don't have a single tree of that sort. We planted two "children" from the mama tree in the front yard. Mama was fertile with her seeds and we stuck a few in soil,in a pot, and when two sprouts grew lustily we planted them. She is still thriving as are her offspring.
But we live in an area full of young adults who would rather have hot tubs than trees and as soon as they move in they start chopping. You can't get a tan with shade trees around they claim! We can only shake our heads as the beauty,the air filter that is those trees,the home of many song birds,squirrels etc have to find new digs. If I had space I would plant a tree every time they shop one down.

Some towns have ordinances against cutting down mature trees; you need to get a permit in order to remove them.

But maybe you're not in a town, or something like that.

It is a shame.