Puddock Hill Journal #21: Some notes on the importance of trees in the landscape.
We returned from vacation to a dry spell. This meant worrying about the viability of all our plantings but especially the newer ones and especially the youngest trees.
We are fortunate at Puddock Hill to have a legacy of beautiful old trees. Someone planted this Cutleaf Japanese maple a long time ago, and it has grown to about ten feet high with a ten-foot spread:
The arborist tells me it is the oldest one he’s seen in the area at a private home, so we are lucky that a previous owner loved trees.
Nearby, across from our front door, grows what I call the realtor tree, because it sold us the house: