The hawthorn tree is in full bloom, and so is the horse chestnut tree. Makes for a vision of pink from the kitchen table windows. Sadly, the hawthorn was planted too close to the chestnut, and you can see how they’re growing into each other. (People often don’t think of mature tree size when they’re [...]
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Room With a View
Posted in Garden, Trees, Wildlife on May 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fall Trees at 963
Posted in Current Affairs, Garden, Trees on November 14, 2011 |
The huge leaves of the horse chestnut tree that blanketed the lawn have been raked up and are composting, but this is what they looked like before they went – beautiful:
How to “Prune” a Dwarf Alberta Spruce
Posted in Before & After, Garden, Maintenance, Tips, Trees on August 22, 2011 |
Last week, we ended up taking down our dwarf Alberta spruces, mostly because at 8 feet tall, they are giant dwarfs, and also because once they are that tall, you can’t prune them back to, say, 5 feet or anything, because you don’t have enough greenery to work with. Here’s the thing: dwarf Alberta spruces, [...]
Pruning a Mugo Pine
Posted in Before & After, Garden, Trees on June 14, 2011 |
In one of our beds in the back garden, we have a mugo pine that may have been dwarf at some point, but which is definitely too big for its surroundings now. I read that you have to be careful planting a “dwarf” mugo pine, because nurseries often don’t really know what final size those [...]
First thing Sunday morning, a flock of at least two dozen robins flew into the yard. Was it for the bird seed at the Umbrella Cafe? No. The bird seed at the Greasy Spoon? (The suet block, no.) Well what was a tourist bus of robins doing at 963 then? Eating hawthorn berries off the [...]
This fat robin sitting on top of a branch of the chestnut tree a few days ago says Spring is coming, no matter how much snow is still falling. Really. And those are buds on that tree. Hope springs eternal.
Winter continued.
Posted in Current Affairs, Trees on February 2, 2011 |
The light in yesterday’s photo looks all golden and summery, but it’s still winter. Last weekend we woke up to every branch in the trees heavy with a couple of inches of wet snow. Red went out to investigate and say hello to his friend next door.
This last Sunday, I started raking up the leaves from the horse chestnut tree that has completely shed. The hawthorn is still turning yellow, so there’ll be another raking session, but for now, the lawn is almost bare again.
Last week I realized that one of the trees standing at the bottom of the yard, the one that’s turning bright yellow against the red of the Virginia Creeper on the fence, is a ginkgo tree. The leaf is distinctive: Lois Hole’s Favorite Trees and Shrubs has this to say: “Ginkgo is the most amazing [...]
