Saturday, 10 Sep 2016
![Chinese elm gone wild](./t-162540843-2098.jpg)
Chinese elm gone wild
![Pear](./t-162540844-2100.jpg)
Pear
![Dead Cherry](./t-162540846-2103.jpg)
Dead Cherry
![Leaning Pistache](./t-162540846-2104.jpg)
Leaning Pistache
The above pictures show the state of some of the trees in our yard. The dead will be cut down. The others will get some needed pruning. The Liquid Amber along the south sidewalk will also get pruned.
![Pruning progress](./t-162541138-2106.jpg)
Pruning progress
![Pear cut back](./t-162541140-2107.jpg)
Pear cut back
![Still leaning Pistache](./t-162541145-2108.jpg)
Still leaning Pistache
The Pistache still leans, of course, but several branches on the back side have been removed in hopes that it won’t get any worse. It leans because there used to be a cypress that block the sun. The Pistache leaned into what little sun it could find.
![Feeding the chipper](./t-162541430-2109.jpg)
Feeding the chipper
![Raising the canopy](./t-162541431-2110.jpg)
Raising the canopy
The crew us feeding the chipper and raising the canopy of the Liquid amber. All work inside the fence is done at this point.
![Elm, complete](./t-162541433-2112.jpg)
Elm, complete
![Pear, complete](./t-162541435-2114.jpg)
Pear, complete
The yard got larger. Pruning the Chinese Elm back as much as we did should help with pool maintenance, too. Alas, the more you prune it the more it grows. We hope we won’t have to do this again for two or three years.