In general it's the big maples that overwhelm small spaces, to get away from that you have to go to small-growing species. If the "yard" in question is a lawn, fill between (and a little over) the roots with topsoil and raise the lawn to meet the new level created by the tree. Or convert the area invaded by the protruding roots to a mulched bed. Or, if you don't need the shade offer to pay to have the tree cut down and the stump ground out.

We have have many rainey days here but lots of sunny ones also :-)) What I do is snap off the seed head part of the stalk on the daffs every few days and or cut (at the very top) off the dying spent flowers. In that mixed daff collection pictured wave after wave of flowers opens. As some finish, others start. So deadheading keeps the mixture looking good even now and they started weeks and weeks ago. In fact they started the very, very beginning of April. Here is how they look now with the last wave flowering and I have cut off all the spent blooms leaving the flower stalk. Here you can see the daylily folliage running in front of the tulips. It should make the tulip folliage much less noticable. Again, as soon as the tulips drop their flower pedals, I will snap off the very top of the stem which has the seed head. I just leave folliage, don't much worry about it. I find it's gone on it's own soon enough and there is always something else going on in the garden to look at. In the two belgium block mini terraces running accross which is were the daffs are, I plan to plant zinnias for summer long color. I will use seedlings and just plant them between the daffodil folliage. I am sure there will be some lang time there between when the daff flowers are all gone and I get my zinnia seedlings in. I haven't even startted the seeds yet as it has been too cold. But I have been growing zinnias in that front section for the past two years. This was before I put in the belgium block mini terraces late last summer. That then allowed me to plant the area in bulbs last fall as planned.

Ken, the subject line on here didn't allow for too much description of the kind of farm he has. Yes, it is his Christmas Tree farm. He has Frasier fir, Grand fir, Concolours, as well Blue Spruce trees. I didn't walk onto his property and look at the trees, I just took a look out of a window of one of our guest bedrooms, as it gives a great view of his Christmas tree farm, to see how his trees handled the winter, and saw so many of them are bright orange. I know a lot of people around here wrap their conifers that they have in their yard. This guy has thousands of trees so that really isn't an option. I thought an orange conifer was a dead conifer? I apologize if I am wrong that his trees are goners. I hope, for his sake, they rebud.

I have a wild Bermuda problem in my fescue lawn and a combination of fluazifop and triclopyr worked to turn the Bermuda brown. I don't think it's dead, not yet anyway, it takes repeat applications, but it's under control. The same should work for you. I suspect the chemicals will travel up the runners and brown out the whole plant, so you might cause some brown spots in his yard close to the border. https://www.amazon.com/Fusilade-Ornamental-Herbicide-Quart-SYN1015/dp/B004HCZ4ZS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468523090&sr=8-1&keywords=fusilade+II https://www.amazon.com/Monteray-LG5518-Monterey-Turflon-Ester/dp/B000UGO51Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468523129&sr=8-1&keywords=turflon+ester Cutting high helps, somewhat.