Saturday, September 5, 2009

Trees

We live in a house that was built in the 1940's. I can only assume most of the wonderful, shade-providing, gigantic trees in our yard were planted at the same time. We definitely have a couple maples -- one attracting hoards of box elder bugs that were thankfully frozen off after the freak warm up before spring set in -- and a redwood. Up until now, it didn't dawn on me to figure out what the trees are. However, after some of the trees' leaves have turned brown and withered up (we took action to bring them back to health), it was discovered that we have a . . .


. . .CHESTNUT TREE!!


(a chestnut tree bloom taken in May)

. . .and a GINKO TREE!!


So now for the mystery trees:

1)

(mystery tree #1 spring bloom)

2)

(mystery tree #2 spring bloom)

(berries and leaves as of today)

3) I think this one is a crab apple, but I'm not entirely sure. This poor guy has a huge hole down his trunk leaving him exposed to bugs and the eliments. We're hoping he pulls through.




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