If you look down and to the right out the front window, you can see the little triangular jeu de boules "court". Surrounding the court are sycamore trees shaped in a sort of horizontal espalier. They are pruned once a year. Today is the day. If you look closely, you can see two grebe's floating on the water of the inner harbour.over to the right. Grebes are harbingers of Spring here, so we are happy to see those.The chaps are installing a new stove hood at the moment--so it's another day in. Pity, because it is so sunny and nice, albeit freezing outside.
Good heavens, why would anyone do that to sycamores? I thought Texas had the market cornered on torturing trees (Crepe Myrtle murder, "topping", and whacking branches any which way) but those poor sycamores.
I don't have any idea, Jane...but the effect in the summertime is nice though. They grow and fill out to a sort of oval ball.
@Sjoerd we get the trees cut here every year but the trouble is they keep stripping the bottom shoots and taking them up half way and the tree's are tall here, so they're making them top heavy and when there's a bad wind they do blow. Lovely area you live in by the way
Thanks Gail. I know what you mean about being top-heavy. They prune most of our trees the same way here. These ones are an exception.
It's no good Sjoerd when heavy winds come and they wonder why tree's split in two...thick or what ….there's that many here it wouldn't hurt a few to be cut back.
The method of tree pruning is one thing, but I'll tell you wot--if electrical lines were underground a lot of power loss could be avoided. whatcha think?
Well regarding power lines underneath is good but we're with virgin and the lines underneath our front garden and the actual main box across the road in summer it plays up and they're for ever coming out and I mentioned to the one chap with how many wires that are rigged in that box...you would have thought they would have came up with some form of cooler lining...to keep them from not getting so hot and he also mentioned a form of plug which doesn't over heat. but otherwise it is a good idea because lines get broke in bad storms.
