Crew arrives with equipment and trees:
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beats hand digging:
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horse chestnut, my water hauler:
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maple:
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very graceful:
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blue spruce, after my hawthorne:
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"Fat Albert" Colorado blue spruce:
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"Crimson King" Norway maple I planted seven years ago to replace the one I had removed:
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got shanghied (volunteered) to play Gunga Din. I hauled 20 gallons for each tree. In this heat with no rain the ground is bone dry. Now I'm hoping for a good long drenching rain, otherwise I'll be hauling more water. The sky looks very threatening here but there are no gaurantees with weather. I'm very pleased with how everything turned out... there is really no way to know how new trees will look in the landscape until they're actually in the ground, I think they look great. Now they need to grow.