Trees and Rain

We’ve left some of our trees to grow without pruning the last few years, so are now starting to prune them. Tonight we did a lot on the maple out front, and now I have so many mosquito bites on my legs. Ichy icky uck. Also the bush there, the pussy willow, it’s so tall and has dead stuff in it galore, really got bad just this year, with the lack of rain, no doubt. That bush I have pruned over the years, only letting it get “bigger” this year, and it didn’t do well. So it’s getting pruned way down.

I did some with the bloodgood japanese maple the other week and it really looks much better now. The other maple, that I started this post with has more to get off, but it’s so lightened, not bottom heavy anymore. It looks much better and it gives us room to improve the ground under it now, where we need to build it up some, and put in perennials.

Our wild black berries are turning into a loverly bramble, but they need to be moved, since they are doing that over our front walkway. It’s a walkway we really don’t use, but still it’s right in front and not really the place for it, but the bramble is wonderful and if I could plop our house down on a few acres I think it would look lovely just as they are. Since we are on a half-acre with other houses around, it’s not as country charm-able to leave it there. 🙁

Out back the weeping willow tree has had some major trimming done in the last couple of weeks. It had problems due to the children hanging off it last summer, and so some good branches (well, ones that HAD been good before) had to be cut off. It’s suffering from the summer dryness though, and is so thin, much leaf drop the past month and a half, and so it’s quite Autumn looking when one spies that tree.

There is a big storm brewing to the west, and it might come over us, I hope so, and drop that water, we can use the rain, and any rain the Ernesto my see fit to give us too. We really, really, really need it.