Chris

Hi
We have a large healthy Poinciana which is in our backyard in inner West, Brisbane. The tree is very close to our side boundary with the branches spanning our yard and our neighbour's yard. The neighbours have council approval to build a new house and pool. This involved significant excavation and cutting of large branches. It looks like a pool will be directly under the main area of the Poinciana on the neighbour's side. I have checked with the council and the tree is not currently subject to any protection orders.

We have had an arborist give advice about trying to maintain the health of the Poinciana in these grim circumstances which we are currently in the process of discussion with the neighbours. The main things that we are trying to get agreement on is to that cutting of roots and branches is supervised and carried out by a suitably qualified person and cuts to branches and roots are clean and then treated with a trichoderma based tree wound dressing. Is there anything else we can do?? Has anyone seen a Poinciana survive a situation like this?
Thanks for any advice
Chris