Bump and grind

Herewith a follow-up to my last post… on the subject of the recent tree-work that we had carried out ‘chez nous’.

There follows a brief hiatus to allow for the cracking of any lumberjack jokes – as in:

“Paddy and Mick are walking along a logging road in British Columbia…” – and so forth!

All done? Thank you. Onward!…

The photos that I posted last time out should give an idea of just how much extra light we get at the front of the house as a result of the removal of the self-willed spruce. The images also suggest, however, that planting something more to scale is definitely in order to define more appropriately the interface between house and garden at that point. The search for the right arboreal embellishment may well take some time.

These photos show how the raised bed that had accommodated the spruce was left after the felling of the tree.

The photos also give an idea of just how much stump remains in the ground when a tree is removed. In other instances we have left the the protruding stumps as a feature (almost). In this case, because we want to plant another tree in the bed, we were obliged to hire the service of our arborist’s stump grinder, who – in command of his impressive array of machinery – made short work of the remains of the spruce.

This thing is definitely a bit of a beast!

One sizeable hole – tree-planting for the use of…!