Not entirely sure what this tree is, but we’ll figure it out once all the leaves are out…

Budding tree

With the very warm early spring, it’s a little on the late side for pruning, but better late than never.

With earthworks completed, we can now move a couple of piles of logs to their (hopefully) final resting place till we actually need to use them.

In addition to this pile, we also still have the stacked pile by the driveway and a woodshed full of logs.

These will last us quite some time…

The one remaining lodgepole pine was moving rather too much for comfort in recent high winds, so we decided to take it down too. At least it will make the earthworks in that corner much easier and give us more flexibility in that area.

Cutting down a lot of trees, means… a lot of logs.

A lot of logs

And we can’t leave the logs in the middle of the garden…

It’s nearly time for the many of the trees in the garden to be cut down to make room for new things.

• the leylandii take up so much space in the garden, not to mention light and water, that it will be hard to do much interesting stuff with them still there
• the plum tree is old and diseased. While it did give us some nice plums this year, it’s not healthy, and not in a particularly good location for our plans
• the holly tree… quite a wonderful tree, but unfortunately not in a great position
• the poplar tree is, unfortunately, leaning dangerously and appears to be diseased, so we’ve been advised to remove it. A shame, it’s a beautiful tree.

The final tree panorama