Arboreal gardening
Feb. 19th, 2017 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcIt was a lovely day today: Spring is coming. The local high was around 58°F and the sunshine made a nice change from the gray and damp and wind of so many past weekends. I had been intending to again cut the crab-apple tree back from much crossing the property line and generally growing too enormous for me to manage at all so I took the opportunity of the newly clement weather. With the stepladder and the saw it was easy to bring the tree back into line and cut the thicker branches ready for burning once the pieces have dried out somewhat.
Managing landlords' gardens is always a challenge for me if they have more than grass. I may well have left the tree a little late in the season: it is probably already getting itself ready for new growth. I am often not sure what is or isn't a weed nor how large plants ought to be allowed to grow. So, my amateur tree surgery is largely guesswork but I think our current landlords are of the kind for whom it will suffice. At least since our latest move we have a much simpler garden than our previous.
Managing landlords' gardens is always a challenge for me if they have more than grass. I may well have left the tree a little late in the season: it is probably already getting itself ready for new growth. I am often not sure what is or isn't a weed nor how large plants ought to be allowed to grow. So, my amateur tree surgery is largely guesswork but I think our current landlords are of the kind for whom it will suffice. At least since our latest move we have a much simpler garden than our previous.
