After the extreme mowing yesterday, I decided to take it easy, not that i had much choice what with the light drizzling and cold weather here. So all i managed to complete today was clear the bushes starting to grow under the trees.
Yesterday while mowing i realized something about my garden, it was more a mini forest than a backyard. Not in terms of size, but in terms of types of trees and plants growing there. My mower kept stumbling upon stump after tree stump. Looks like the previous owners had to clear off a lot of the trees to get enough space. But they haven't done much with that space than keep it mowed maybe. I have in my backyard now a huge, fully grown eucalyptus tree; atleast 10-12 palm trees of 2 variety - the fan palm and date palm; other variety of ornamental trees of which i have no idea and finally 2 fully grown apple trees.
I know for a fact that palm trees grow slower and take a very long time to reach maturity, but i am kind of intimidated by the almost bushy grove like dense growth these trees together make in parts of my garden. So job numero uno for me was to start trimming the trees. Trouble i don't have the right tools now with me. Which means I am due a shopping session in garden section. But with my existing tools namely a manual hedge trimmer, i started on the task.
End result, most of the palms, branches look severely shortened. Though i should say the date palm manages to carry the look far better than the fan palm ;).
Yesterday while mowing i realized something about my garden, it was more a mini forest than a backyard. Not in terms of size, but in terms of types of trees and plants growing there. My mower kept stumbling upon stump after tree stump. Looks like the previous owners had to clear off a lot of the trees to get enough space. But they haven't done much with that space than keep it mowed maybe. I have in my backyard now a huge, fully grown eucalyptus tree; atleast 10-12 palm trees of 2 variety - the fan palm and date palm; other variety of ornamental trees of which i have no idea and finally 2 fully grown apple trees.
I know for a fact that palm trees grow slower and take a very long time to reach maturity, but i am kind of intimidated by the almost bushy grove like dense growth these trees together make in parts of my garden. So job numero uno for me was to start trimming the trees. Trouble i don't have the right tools now with me. Which means I am due a shopping session in garden section. But with my existing tools namely a manual hedge trimmer, i started on the task.
End result, most of the palms, branches look severely shortened. Though i should say the date palm manages to carry the look far better than the fan palm ;).
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