I have often been called a tree-hugger. But it was raining so hard today that I did not hug two trees in our backyard goodbye. goodbye. Anyway, Carl is the sentimental one amoung us, so I will leave that to him. If all goes as scheduled two of the five trees in our backyard will be taken down today. The largest, a sweet gum, is a sewer sucker, and is the impetus for this move. The two trees also have branched into all other trees in the vicinity and blot all sunlight from the backyard. On the positive side, they do traspire alot of water skyward and keep the house cooler in the summer. But, we still have three trees to pick up some of the slack.
So – we still have a rainier cherry, blue spruce and some sort of asian fir (I asked the tree guy what this one was). Next steps may be to try and level the backyard some, and get a lawn back for Carl’s kids to play on. The current lawn is more moss and weeds and sweet gum seed pods than grass.
We have had so many seed pods over the past few years that Carl would go out with the kids and play counting games picking them up and putting them in buckets. The seed pods do their job of digging into the grass too well, prickling the bottom of bare feet, and clogging the lawn mower (reel, but not with bare feet anyway).
The question is now how well I manage to revamp the backyard with my limited gardening/lawn care skills.
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