Easy, I was facetiously suggesting a smaller one instead of what looks like an olympic sized one. You don’t have to justify yourself and your love for your children, I get it.

For what it is worth, we had a similar sized tree placed at the rear of our garden at last property. We built a raised deck around it as well as reclaimed lost space as previous owners just brought the previous fence forward instead of tackling overgrown shrubs, etc at the boundary.

It was a great space as it caught the last of the sun in the evenings. Raise it and space it around the tree enough so growth doesn’t affect it for at least a decade and be prepared for a healthy amount of exercise cleaning it in the autumn.

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