River Birch


On the positive side, the River Birch is an attractive, fast-growing tree.
On the negative side, it drops a truck-load of little limbs for us to pick up
and the landscaper planted it too near the house and garage, requiring us to
have to keep the limbs trimmed back off the garage and to worry about a big
limb (or even the tree itself) crashing through the house.

Actually, with dozens of trees on our lot, we didn't even need this one
and I would not recommend it to others.

As seen below, we had the tree limbed up. This has solved several problems: the limbs are off the garage, the little limbs were dropping from lower limbs because they were not getting enough sunlight (according to the tree expert) and a Crape Myrtle below the River Birch will have more room to grow (it was getting seriously cramped and we thought we were going to have to take drastic measures).

Oh, yeah -- and we think the tree looks better now. It has a very decorative bark which is now easier to see.

Click here to see the tree growing up.

April 30, 2009:
 Aug.29, 2009, after thinning:




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