TreeTuesday: See This Tree, How Big It's Grown?
This tree is in the yard of my dear friend, the last time I saw it I would never had noticed it. She had just moved to this little spot in southwest Missouri and it was a jungle. There was a small area cleared around the little trailer house, but the rest was wild. Many trees had to be removed, but this lovely fellow was chosen to stay and become a highlight of her yard.
The place was so overrun that her first efforts were to just put in a flower garden. The entire area that was cleared had been planted with flowers, everything else was a pretty gnarly mess. Thorny honey locust trees, vines, ticks, chiggers... In an amusing reversal, she now has this large, user friendly yard and has cut her flower bed down to a tiny remnant of her early version.
The original old house was completely invisible in those days. They have since beaten back the jungle, torn down much of the failed structure and are working to make this into the centerpiece for a new meditation garden.
It was so awesome to see what she had done with the place, so wonderful to spend time in her space. I just love this picture of her in her space, she is the prettiest flower there to my eyes!
It was something of a bushwhack just to get in and out when we left for Idaho in 1996. Now they have left a nice border so you still barely see the driveway from the road, but once through the tree tunnel, it is wide open and just lovely.
NAMASTE'!
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She sure has a nice center piece tree there! Is there anything nearly as nasty as ticks and chiggers LOL!!! I HATE them!!!
They are what ultimately ran us out of the state lol! Not that fond of winter, but I like the way it thins the biting wildlife!
what a beautiful tree! now getting the center stage treatment it deserves
It is among the lucky ones, for sure!
Looks like a really lovely place @fishyculture ;)
It really is very serene. There is a little creek that the driveway crosses, which means the birds are just thick and always singing.
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God Bless her, beating back locust trees is no small feat.
The had a tornado rip through maybe ten years ago, sort of helped. Sort of made things harder too, of course!
We had a crazy ice storm a while ago that destroyed most of the trees and powerlines and lost power for a week in winter which sucked pretty bad but it also cleared out all the vulnerable trees and powerlines so we haven't really had an outage since, thank God.