Buying more plants!

The last few days have been spent on weeding.  It has begun to cool down a bit and fall is in the air.  We are almost caught up on weeding.  Yesterday a customer called to prune her black pine.  It has been a few years since we pruned the tree and it had gotten way out of hand.  The secondary probem was that it is in a planter that is 3 feet high and right at the sidewalk.  To make matters worse, she has a perfectly sheared hedge of rosemary that completely surrounds the pine.  In order for us to prune the pine, we have to stand of the rosemary hedge.  We also have to put a ladder on the rosemary hedge to reach the top of the pine.  It is quite precarious.  Near the sidewalk I placed the ladder on the rosemary hedge.  I used a 6 foot ladder and climbed up a few feet.  But since the tree is in a raised planter, I am actually about 6-7 feet above the sidewalk. I tried not to think about it or look down.  It took us a couple of hours to prune.  If the tree were planted on a flat surface, we would have been done in half the time.  It also took us longer because we had to thin the tree back heavily to get the shape back.  We had to strike a balance.  We needed to thin the tree without making it so bare that the customer would freak out.  I think it turned out beautifully.  Today I have to continue weeding, but I want to check out a local nursery that sells landscape plants.  They feed everything like crazy, so we always find something interesting.  I really also could use a break from the weeding.