We had a beautiful, symmetrical plum tree until this year when a bumper crop of plums brought it down with their weight. Visiting kids used to climb it. When 1/4 of it fell down, our cat would show off how much easier it was to climb, horizontally.
We called the tree guys but they were to busy to come for a few weeks. One morning a large section of the tree was leaning on the roof of our outbuilding, and the rest was threatening to destroy our greenhouse. It had rained and I could see and hear it succumbing to gravity.
We've had a couple super long ladders that I don't think we've ever used and J propped up the branches, saving our greenhouse and fence.
When the tree guys finally came, the boss said, "So, what tree is the problem here?" Ha, ha: )
They roped the last of it to one of our hedge bushes (!) and very elegantly took it down.
Everything seems so exposed without it, and the next morning sunshine was streaming into our house at an early hour. Our greenhouse is finally getting significant light, that's the one good thing.
Oh, and I expect to have less raking to do this fall.
No more plum cake for us: (
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It is sad to see the old tree grow, but she will leave room for others to grow in her place. Did you use all of her harvest? I remember throwing away huge garbage bags of ruby red grapefruit when we lived in Florida.
ND, unfortunately out of the thousands of plums we got zero. They weren't ripe, so we had to rake them into piles and throw them away.
There's a "reclining plum" in our orchard because of exactly the same problem. We didn't get around to chopping her out promptly (she wasn't falling on anything but dirt) and to our surprise, she still grows plums! And now they are easier to pick before the yellow jackets show up.
Plant another tree in a better place. Make it a memorial tree for Mercer. <3
Why are trees girls? In German it's Der Baum.: ) Have trees become female in America/Canada?
Other female nouns are: spider, trailer hitch, cat, cliff, couch, cup, and bee. I hate that my husband says, "I don't want to kill her" about a freaking wolf spider.
I think of most trees as female. Maybe not coconut trees :-)
Love the ingenuity of using ladders. Maybe plant a new plum tree? Being able to grow plums seems very exotic to me
Teresa, I'd give up all apples, walnuts, plums, pears, and berries, all of them, for a fraction of the seafood you get a few steps out your front door: ) I'm dying for some good seafood here. I can, however, get a can of tunafish at the grocery store *sigh* PS My husband had your idea, he really wants plums again. He's also relieved I never got rid of those ladders we never used before!
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