I am planning for a landscape project. I wish to start construction in 9 months. In this project I plan to remove many 20-foot-tall trees. They are badly sited, and becoming a serious problem. I am trying to decide when to remove them.
One choice is to remove them soon after landscape design starts but before other construction begins. Perhaps this will give the architect a chance to design around some of them. However, this seems unlikely. These trees were planted along a fence with 4 feet spacing between trees, as if making a spite fence.
Another choice is to remove them soon. The reason is to give the designer a blank slate, a better view of his/her work area, more accurate lighting. And I suspect this choice will help the new plants too by ensuring the existing trees' root network are completely inactive in 9 months.
Which choice is better? Please provide your reasons too. Thanks.