One more project for 2008 and then we can look forward to more changes in 2009!


On the east slope of the house we have a large Willow (Salix x erythroflexuosa 'Scarlet Curls'). It has a beautiful twisted trunk but the lower branches were obscuring the beauty of its form and also providing too much shade for the plantings beneath it. In December, 2007 a friend of ours made the treacherous climb up the trunk and removed the lower branches.