Maple Trees

Category: Pianolady's Gardens | Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:17 am

After spending the past two weeks hoeing, digging, and pulling maple trees from the property front to back, I thought I'd never want to see another maple tree again. The last straw was picking every little maple tree out of the slats of the boardwalk one by one.

Then I went out on the deck to enjoy the shade of the backyard and quickly forgot what a pain it was (literally) to pick those maples. Some things are just worth the work.

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toni wrote on Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:22 am:

It certainly looks beautiful.

I feel you pain pulling up trees, we don't have Maples but do have Pecan, Mimosa, Hackberry and Oak all over the yard.

wannabe wrote on Sun Jun 15, 2008 2:07 am:

The squirrels buried acorns all over our yard and this year we have little oak trees all over the yard. I am going to try to transfer two or three into a container to get larger and then put them back in the yard. Wannabe

Droopy wrote on Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:13 am:

Maples are lovely trees, despite their ability to plant themselves everywhere. Your boardwalk is lovely, I bet it's nice to walk barefoot on. :D

eileen wrote on Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:07 am:

With a beautiful garden like yours to relax in after pulling up those maples I'd soon forget the backache too!!! Your whole garden is a credit to all the hard work you put into it.

DEBBIE1957 wrote on Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:09 pm:

I know exactly how you feel about maples. Here is a view of the back of our house with 100's of little maple trees growing in the gutter. My husband was thrilled.

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