Another Joy of Home Ownership

When we built the house and had it landscaped we thought that the weeping mulberry at the northwest corner of the house would be a very nice little tree. It was for the longest while, like ten years. Then it began to grow closer to the house and the branches would get into the gutters. It also had to be cut back several times year so that the lawn could be mowed without serious injury to the head of the person mowing.



This year we decided to make a change. After all we had to remove the Bartlett pear tree between the houses. It had grown so close to the house that it was misshapen. Last year an early, very wet snow storm came and broke two big branches on the pear tree so we had to have it taken down. It was a beautiful tree. We should have had it planted in the back yard.



This year we decided that the mulberry had to go. We replaced it with a Boulevard Cypress tree. It has a bluish cast to the foliage. It is supposed to grow about a foot a year, and not exceed 5-6 feet in height.


Right now that side of the looks a little barren compared to how it used to look. We hope that as it grows it will look better. With the work to be done on the patio which will include a new fence, that side of the house will look considerably different. We can hardly wait to see the results.