Partly sunny with a high of 78 - it was a gorgeous day.The Weigela's are now in bloom in both the front and back yards; and with both the Weigelas and the Lilacs in full- bloom, the fragrance is almost over powering, seriously, it is!
In the morning Don and I removed the tin from around the trees and painted the damaged areas with pruning sealer. The tar in the quart containers does a better job of covering, so with the remaining two quarts I'm going to go back over the trees on which I used the spray.
We will be cleaning up the forest floor for the remainder of the season. Then we plan on renting a large chipper this fall and running the brush through it; I'll use the chips on the banks to the North and West side of our house . . . everything recycled!
After lunch we moved the Kieffer Pear tree we just planted last weekend, to a new location. It now sits in the backyard by the patio, and we planted an Autumn Flowering Cherry tree in it's place. The pear tree was planted where the frontyard slopes away, and after rains it drains there, so we planted something better suited about 1/3 above ground level. It's the tree I said in an earlier blog I just had to plant sometime, it just came earlier than I expected.
LEFT PICTURE: The tree in front is the Autumn Flowering Cherry tree we planted, someday it will get 25' tall and 20' wide. It flowers in both the spring and fall, hence how it got it's name. The tree in the background is a Sugar Maple we planted 4 1/2 years ago, it grows about 10" a year, not bad for a hardwood tree.
My Elf Mountain Laurels are also blooming, they are a dwarf variety that only
get 3 to 4 feet tall. Next year I'll be planting the large Mountain Laurels in the forest, with most of those ranging between 6 and 8 feet tall when mature.After a full day of hitting it in the yard, we were more than ready to soak in the tub and go to bed early.
