Mighty Oak - Inherited Backyard Tree - June 2018
Back at the end of May, I entered a River Birch tree in our backyard into my [ Garden Diary ]. It was a tree that we inherited, but I wanted to document it during the Summer of 2018, so I have something to revisit as it grows over time. Today, I'm entering another tree: a mighty Oak tree that is the inherited tree that is closest to our patio. You can see it above in a photo that I took recently as the canopy continues to leaf out. This is one of two really large Oaks that we have inside the fence line. The other is the 'tree house' candidate that I posted about earlier this Spring . This Oak (above) is the tree that we have hung our tree swing on and you can see the ropes coming down from it in the photo. This tree was one of a few that were in a row when we bought the property, but due to the drainage requirements - we had to build an underground pit out back and swale our land towards it - we had to remove a few of the other trees. None of them were th