Birch, Not Maple
May. 2nd, 2015 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlSo, the tree I thought was Japanese maple-y in my front yard isn't. It's still an ornamental tree - weeping birch - and I do like it. I had an estimate done for my lawn and edging earlier this week, and while the folks were in my yard I asked some basic questions to see what I was getting myself in for trying to do the landscaping myself. One of the things I learned is that I should have pruned the thing in the fall. Now it's not advised because open wounds could bring in bugs.
Who knew? Clearly not me. And for a second, I thought it was all a sign. I looked up my Celtic tree sign - I thought it was birch. Nope, I'm a total beech. ;)
I trimmed the hydrangea (also something I should have done in fall - which I did know, actually), and just doing that filled my garbage can. I'm not sure how I'm ever going to get the landscaping done when I run out of room so quickly. I can't have bags and piles of lawn refuse lying around. That's open invitation to bugs and critters. No thanks.
So now I'm back to debating whether or not to have someone do all the clean up and then I can maintain, gradually changing it to what I want, which is either river rock or maybe solid blue star creepers - so pretty when they're in bloom. Something that looks nice, but doesn't require a lot of sweat to keep looking that way.
It's the sticker shock that always stops me. And it's not like I don't have the funds to do this type of thing; I just don't like the downward spiral of my savings account. LOL.
Who knew? Clearly not me. And for a second, I thought it was all a sign. I looked up my Celtic tree sign - I thought it was birch. Nope, I'm a total beech. ;)
I trimmed the hydrangea (also something I should have done in fall - which I did know, actually), and just doing that filled my garbage can. I'm not sure how I'm ever going to get the landscaping done when I run out of room so quickly. I can't have bags and piles of lawn refuse lying around. That's open invitation to bugs and critters. No thanks.
So now I'm back to debating whether or not to have someone do all the clean up and then I can maintain, gradually changing it to what I want, which is either river rock or maybe solid blue star creepers - so pretty when they're in bloom. Something that looks nice, but doesn't require a lot of sweat to keep looking that way.
It's the sticker shock that always stops me. And it's not like I don't have the funds to do this type of thing; I just don't like the downward spiral of my savings account. LOL.
