Canadian Gardening: Alberta Palm...I mean spruce, 1 by joannabanana

joannabanana wrote:
To start, I would never do this to a spruce tree, but these were planted in a terrible location & they are my neighbor's trees centre planted on the property line. If they had left them not trimmed up, we would not be able to get in the back yard. When we moved into this house 9 years ago, the trees where trimmed up to about 6 ft. The bows continued to grow & hang down onto their garage roof and would scratch vehicles on the drive way. When the neighbor asked if we could trim them higher, I took the opportunity to go high enough to allow a dramatically different amount of sunlight in for my roses in the front yard. It's amazing how much more light comes through. I'm very excited to see how much better the roses will bloom this year.




This message was edited Mar 30, 2008 3:00 PM