Time to start cleaning up the gardens. Not exactly my favorite thing. This is when I regret creating two solidly planted acres. Plus, last year we had to remove tons of broken trees because of the heavy snow damage. This year we have to replace all of them.
My little toad is watching over the mums which are some of the first things to come back in the spring.
And I have a real problem to solve. See that root running between the blue stone
pavers?
See the raised blue stone
paver? I have these everywhere. Not only are they ugly, they are dangerous.
See the bigger root running along the side of the blue stone boarder?
And look at the ones crisscrossing the little bit of lawn between the raised beds? Which means they are under those raised beds too. Ugh! I am removing the raised beds this year and planting in my lower gardens hoping to
alleviate some of the stink bug problems of last year. But what am I going to do about these roots? I am so tempted to just cut some out. But something tells me that will kill the trees.
The rhodies are budding out.
The snow drops are about to bloom.
Another damn root. They are everywhere I look and have totally damaged the patio around my fountain.
Interestingly, my garden totems made it through the winter without breaking.
This one has a bit of condensation but I am sure that will disappear when it warms up.
They have to be moved since the raised beds are about to disassembled.
The last of the ice is melting on the pool cover.
What can I say....roots, damn roots.
I think it is time for these junipers to go too. They were barely 3 feet tall when I planted them 15 years ago. The one on the left uprooted with out last heavy snow. Plus, they are blocking out the view of the garage door.
I drastically cut back the oakleaf hydrangeas this year.
See that long black root running along the side of the walkway? I feel like I am living in "The Little Shop of Horrors". I think it is time to move!
Time to start cleaning up the gardens. Not exactly my favorite thing. This is when I regret creating two solidly planted acres. Plus, last year we had to remove tons of broken trees because of the heavy snow damage. This year we have to replace all of them.
My little toad is watching over the mums which are some of the first things to come back in the spring.
And I have a real problem to solve. See that root running between the blue stone pavers?
See the raised blue stone paver? I have these everywhere. Not only are they ugly, they are dangerous.
See the bigger root running along the side of the blue stone boarder?
And look at the ones crisscrossing the little bit of lawn between the raised beds? Which means they are under those raised beds too. Ugh! I am removing the raised beds this year and planting in my lower gardens hoping to alleviate some of the stink bug problems of last year. But what am I going to do about these roots? I am so tempted to just cut some out. But something tells me that will kill the trees.
The rhodies are budding out.
The snow drops are about to bloom.
Another damn root. They are everywhere I look and have totally damaged the patio around my fountain.
Interestingly, my garden totems made it through the winter without breaking.
This one has a bit of condensation but I am sure that will disappear when it warms up.
They have to be moved since the raised beds are about to disassembled.
The last of the ice is melting on the pool cover.
What can I say....roots, damn roots.
I think it is time for these junipers to go too. They were barely 3 feet tall when I planted them 15 years ago. The one on the left uprooted with out last heavy snow. Plus, they are blocking out the view of the garage door.
I drastically cut back the oakleaf hydrangeas this year.
See that long black root running along the side of the walkway? I feel like I am living in "The Little Shop of Horrors". I think it is time to move!
Comments
You do such a great job!
I'm still burried in snow here in Canada and I'm envious of your budding garden ♥
You do have a lot of roots. I wish you luck in solving this problem.
xoxo to "Teddy Loves Spring".
I especially loved the frog - of course :D
Good luck with the clean up! Spring is on the way!
Cheers!
I don't mind the clean up of the garden, but I do mind how far behind I get on everything else because it takes a lot of hours to clean up and make ready all the garden areas. So then I start feeling that I have WAY to much to get done feeling. lol
I want to try to make some garden totems. Those are so pretty! I will have to check your side bar and see if you posted a tutorial on making those!
Hope you can find a solution to those tree roots!
Christer.
Hugs and sparkles
WG
*sigh*
thanks so much for sharing your garden with us
Be Blessed
i love your garden so very much :D i always love seeing pics of it
Now there's a sentence you don't see much! But I can see why you'd not want to block the view of that door; it's lovely.
There is a juniper in our apartment complex that is actually sending up new "trees" along its exposed roots.
Don't always comment, but I adore your blog. And my husband's proposal still stands! (He's a hunk, but devoutly Catholic. I think you'd like him, though; he's also a musician)
LisaDay
In that case one prunes the tree real hard one year and the roots the second. I think that might work for most trees in the Rosaceae family (rose family)
But most trees can manage to loose two or three roots if they are cut some distance from the tree itself. Do You know what tree these roots comes from? If I were You I would try to remove some at least, otherwise You´ll have to cut down the tree anyway before they do too much damage I´m afraid.
Have a great day now!
Christer.
I love the pics of the mums and the buds - gives me hope for Spring!
Do you have so many surface roots because you live on a mountain and have a rocky subsurface? I wondered why you had so many trees topple over. .that may be the reason. We live on an ancient dune, with very porous soil, so we don't have that problem.
I hope that you are able to solve it, without having to lose more trees. They are a precious commodity.