Sorry to be late with my post this week – I was away reviewing grant proposals. It was interesting and useful work, but really drains your brain. So with that being said, my post is long on pictures and short on words.
One of the things that bugs us GP types is poor plant placement. Why bother planting a tree if you’re not going to allow it to grow naturally? Here are some photos to mull over the weekend. While I have lots of bad pruning pictures, these ones are chosen specifically because the trees were obviously poor choices for either site usage or size.
Because my sense of humor seems to have been left at the grant reviewing venue, I can’t think of amusing captions for these pictures. But I’ll bet you can! Just submit them in the comments sections, and I’ll repost the photos later next week with your contributions.
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The first is a bit amusing…. the rest leave me speachless… but I’ve seen oh so many similar scenes I hardly blink at these.
An Old Forester
#1 Tootsie Roll Industries markets its latest pop introduction at its corporate headquarters.
#2 Grow your own Living Telephone Pole.
#3 Judicious pruning of the canopy allows for needed sunlight to keep your lawn green and healthy.
#4 Half a hedge is better than none
#5 Planting trees near your home provides shade, and reduces your energy costs in the summer months.
Ha! Liquidambar six feet from the house is a specialty around my neighbourhood.
I only have #1: “Lolipop, Lolipop, ou la-a lolipop” but of course you have to sing it.
I’ve got a caption that fits all of them. They looked so adorable in their 3 gallon pots.
The property owners’ explanations:
Photo 1- City ordinace says we have to plant shade trees in all parking lots.
Photo 2 – City ordiance says we must plant street trees and never mind that there is no room.
Photo 3 – This fly-by-night tree trimmer stopped by and said I trimed your neighbor’s trees, do you want yours trimmed? And the price was so reasonable.
Photo 4 – neighbor wars – one neighbor wanted hedge, planted right on property line.
Photo 5- The tag on the plant from the store said it only got 10′ by 6′. What the tag didn’t say was that was at ten years. A full grown speiciman is 30′ 15′. Oops.
#1 the latest way to go green is to mark the handicap spots with handicap trees.
#3 either they are cutting costs and planning on saving some money on lumber to support their new deck or
they planted some dormant bareroots and couldn’t figure out which side went up.