I always find it amazing that plants can grow that quickly, especially all those roots!

I used to live in a then-new townhouse-style condo complex, which had two buildings, with about 12 or so townhouses in each building. They were on a hill, a rather steep hill. Behind my building the hill was covered in trees and some scrub shrubs - it wasn't landscaped, but it was never cleared when they built the condos.

Behind the second building, for some reason they cleared all the trees and shrubs. Not only did it look awful, but sure enough, there were two landslides in the seven years I lived there. Luckily, small enough that no major damage was done to any condos and no one was hurt, but that's still scary, both for the condo-dwellers and the people living at the top of the hill. Then the condo association had meeting after meeting to discuss methods of keeping the hill back. I was always amazed that they didn't see the solution right in front of them - didn't they GET that the hill behind my building was perfectly fine? Because of the trees and shrubs? So yeah, roots are good!

:)
Dee