A Year In The Life Of A Tree

We have started to prune some landscape pines. These are pines that were started by my father and sold. The customers did not know what to do, so we prune them once a year. The changes to the tree are incredible. It is like when you haven’t seen your niece or nephew who live in another state. A year in the life of a tree is incredible. One of the trees we pruned was weak and we discovered that the tree had mites, so we suggested to the owner to have it sprayed. The trees we did yesterday were fantastic. They were quite overgrown. The people in the home are new. The previous owners gave them our number. The new owners must love to water their landscape because everything was nice and full. The pines looked fantastic when we were done. At our nursery, we see the same thing every day. We only notice subtle differences in the growth of our trees because we look at them every day. But the changes in viewing other peoples trees bring new perspective. It is nice to see how the trees start to fill in and become nicer and fuller as the year goes by. One of the trees that we prune was started out as a five gallon can and planted by my father and I over thirty five years ago. The first year we planted the tree in the front yard, their next door neighbor commented how ugly and spindly the tree looked. They had asked our friend why he would allow us to plant such and ugly tree in the front yard. As a few years past, the neighbor appologized about the comment and now understood that it takes time for the branches to get full. The tree is now over eleven feet tall and has branches on either side that are over six feet in length. It has phenomenal movement and taper. I would dare say it is one of the finest examples of a Japanese black pine landscape tree in the U.S. We haven’t pruned that tree yet, but I can’t wait to see what a year has brought to the development of the tree.

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This post was written by George