Sunday, April 25, 2010

New trees

Now we have five poplar planted along the driveway for fast shade, they are almost as thin as the stick holding up the reflector.  I also took the sod between two flowering bushes that we planted last fall, and put it on some of the exposed area left from grinding out the stump from our monster tree.  Where the sod was removed I put two of the poplar trees, and later will be adding bulbs and day lilies for added color.  Eventually we will add concrete to the driveway to straighten out where it used to go around the largest tree.

Up front we put in our first fruit tree, a four in one cherry tree that we picked up from the Andersons.  The four cherries are; Bing, Lapins, Montmorency, and Stella.  The Montmorency is a self fertilizing tart cherry, good for pies.  The Lapins is a cross that is also self fertilizing, but it is a sweet cherry.  The Stella is another sweet cherry that is self fertilizing.  The Bing is the only cherry on this tree that isn't self fertilizing, but the other three are all good fertilizers for it.  The only section of the tree that did not have full leaves was the Montmorency, but since they were all like that at the store, I am making the assumption that it is just a little later in pushing out leaves than the rest.

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