"SORRY LADY, WE HAVE TO REMOVE SOME TREES"

You may have read a past post where we had a sewerage problem and council workers came and dug up my garden to fix the blocked pipes. Well after the pipes were fixed the council foreman told me they would be back to repair the garden but he also said, "Sorry lady, we have to remove some trees." The reason was  because the tree roots were damaged when the workmen had to dig down two metres to get to the pipes. Now the trees were unsafe. It was sad to hear but it had to be done especially with storm season approaching. 

A few days later they arrive to remove the clump of six palm trees on the right hand side of our front yard. (from the road)

 Two down four to go.                              There goes number five, one left.

 The digger pulls out the roots and the new manhole is getting its cover put on. There is now a bald patch in the garden.

The next day tree loppers arrive to remove a huge Paper Bark Tree (Melaleuca) from the other side of the front yard where the connection of the house and street pipes had to be fixed.

 He sawed many branches off first. I was surprised that he didn't have to climb the tree, he just used an extended chain saw. Finally the top comes down and I have another bald patch in the garden. However, they asked me what type of trees and plants would I like replanted. So I told them Lilipilly Trees, Grevilleas, Calistemons, Salvia and African Daisies. A few days later they came and planted the new plants and covered the bald patches with new sugar cane mulch. I was impressed except I have to keep all these new plants alive in hot, dry weather.

 With palm trees                                      and without palm trees.

The kookaburra supervised the work from the washing line

Linked to "Wild Bird Wednesday"

SUMMER RAINS

In Queensland we get our rain in the summer months. It is then that the dried up earth and shrivelled up plants of the dry winter months suddenly burst into life again.  Everything turns green and colourful and the weeds go berserk. For those suffering drab winter days, here is some hot, wet colour  from my garden.