yesterday, honey hunk and i whacked down and pull out the roots to two LARGE bushes .. one was a lovely LILAC bush that i had whacked to the ground myself when i first moved here .. but couldn't get the 'stump' out .. over the next couple years .. it zoomed back up again! And there was a big bush (that gets teensy white flowers in the springtime). They were both nice (especially the lilac) .. but just in the WRONG PLACE .. both closed off the view from the kitchen window and hid the cabins .. so they had to go! It was only a 'nano-second' of sad grief when we started whacking though .. and we LOVE the 'open' look!
have you ever had to remove trees or bushes that otherwise might have been nice because they were just in the 'wrong place'? did it break your heart .. AND .. are you happy you did it?
We did the opposite once. There was a beautiful dogwood tree way down in the pasture. I talked hubby into taking the tractor and loader to dig it up and move it to the yard. IT DIED!!!!! Should've left it in the field.
My hubby just whacked down a hugh confederate jasmine vine we had let crawl up a tree near our porch. It bloomed total white in the spring, but had begun to die from the inside out and was a lot weight on the tree. It looks kind of bleak there now, and for that I feel sad, and I will miss the smell of that confederate jasmine....but I like the open look too, and the "wounded" look will go away soon. Things never stay without greenery long in Florida. Nature takes over.
I bet the other bush was spiriea - little white flowers that formed in a group? They grow much like lilacs bushes do. Is your back is barking at you today!!!
surprisingly .. i'm fit as a fiddle today .. ha! honey hunk did most of the harder work! i think it was indeed a spirea! have a big'gun in the BACK too .. not crazy about it's location either! 'might' pull it out .. i, too, have tried to 'transplant' big stuff .. i've never had luck with any of it ever living though.
WHACKED 'EM TO THE GROUND!
Posted - Jul 07 2008 : 07:18:57 AM
