On Tuesdays, Alison at Bonney Lassie encourages us to share parts of our gardens that are less than lovely. Snow, wind, record cold temperatures; sounds like time to get outside and do a little light gardening, right?
Lyonothamnus floribundus asplenifolius AKA Catalina Ironwood lost a branch. With the cold temperatures, there will probably be some dieback as well.
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Ceanothus covering the sidewalk. I shook the snow off and it's now possible to walk beneath it again.
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Albizia julibrissin (Mimosa) the top of which was resting on the main electrical and phone lines. I cut all of the dangerous branches away but this trunk is too big for my little chainsaw. At least now when it falls it'll only do damage to the garden. Once the snow has cleared, we'll call in a tree service to cut the rest of it.
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The thirty year old Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood' split in so many places that I don't know if the remaining bit will be able to recover. Time will tell.
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I used to love the snow, thinking that it was pretty but after this ugly truth, I'm definitely in the snow sucks camp. After all, pretty is as pretty does.
Lyonothamnus floribundus asplenifolius AKA Catalina Ironwood lost a branch. With the cold temperatures, there will probably be some dieback as well.
Ceanothus covering the sidewalk. I shook the snow off and it's now possible to walk beneath it again.
Albizia julibrissin (Mimosa) the top of which was resting on the main electrical and phone lines. I cut all of the dangerous branches away but this trunk is too big for my little chainsaw. At least now when it falls it'll only do damage to the garden. Once the snow has cleared, we'll call in a tree service to cut the rest of it.
The thirty year old Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood' split in so many places that I don't know if the remaining bit will be able to recover. Time will tell.
Part of the maple fell on the fence.
The non-gardener even helped this time as there was so much debris to be cleared away just to make the paths passable. This area behind the greenhouse never looks particularly good but it's looking particularly messy with the limbs that will need to be cut up to fill the yard waste bins once they're emptied.
