Chase Dulwit Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lets hope we will have a season without all that > nasty sap ruining my winsdcreen wipers, sticking > my car doors shut and being walked in to my > carpets. > > I love trees, but bad planning to put them in this > environment where the roots are damaging the > pavements and encroaching on the house > foundations. I'm sure the houses were there before > the trees. Understandable that the original > planters maybe didnt consider the number of houses > which would be converted to flats full of 2-car > families. This has got to be a wind up, please let it be! Its not the sap that's sticky, it's the aphid excretions that are sticky as the aphids feed on the sap.