To thwart the deer, hopefully once and for all, we had an aluminum fence professionally installed on 11/22/21. The fence encompasses all of our back yards, down into the woods. Once into the woods, we are still using the 4X4 posts, galvanized garden fence and deer fencing, which is much cheaper, and more easily repaired when the inevitable tree falls.
Then, just four days later, on 11/26/21, the day after Thanksgiving, a powerful wind started a domino effect.
The poplar tree closest, which is not even on our property, toppled three more and caused two more to lean badly. Fortunately, other than our homebrew fence in back, our new fence was spared any impact.
We contacted Tarry with Timberline tree company, who after inspecting our trees and a mishap during removal causing yet another tree to fall and a power surge to our good neighbors, wound up removing about a dozen trees!
Our plans for the right half of our woodland garden suddenly have been revised for many more sun loving plants!
Seriously, this unexpected metamorphosis of our back woods rocked our world for a while. We've had to rethink and revise, but we believe God has plans in this space for us and a slowly but surely, a new vision is emerging.
While my back may argue this next point, one good thing that came out of our tree disaster is wood chips. LOTS and LOTS of woodchips!!! We have been using them to create garden paths, which is really helping to visualize what we want to do.
