For lack of new photos, you get another view of the back yard. Beyond the garden path is the section that I call the west forty. It's the largest section of the property, home to the (remaining two) apple trees, the garden shed, and the vegetable garden. There's a row of hazelnuts along the north edge that have died. They will be taken out soon.
Looking north. Vegetable garden on the left. The dead hazelnuts stretch from there to just right of the apple trees in this photo.
The hazelnuts never really worked. They were tall trees when we moved in and they produced a decent crop of nuts, but the nuts were ruined by boring beetles each year. Rather than take extraordinary measures to protect the crop, I had the trees cut into a hedge shape in 2012. Here's what they looked like the following year (and most years since). Now fully half of them are dead, so out they'll go.
Very clever. They made a great hedge. Just imagine all the new opportunities for planting you're going to have.
ReplyDeleteOh, gosh, they looked nice. I never think about Hazelnut origins, so I've never imagined a bush like this.
ReplyDeleteThe hazelnut hedge was lovely. Dead trees are not so lovely.
ReplyDeleteThat was a beautiful hedge, too bad it didn’t make it. I read, this morning, that France has declared an ‘agricultural calamity’ in several areas, including the Loire, due to the impact of the harsh winter on grapes and other agricultural products. So sad.
ReplyDeletemitch, I think just grass for the time being. We really don't need a hedge on that side of the yard.
ReplyDeletejudy, hazelnut origins! I think there was a course in that at college...
jean, for sure!
bettyann, there has been a lot of talk on the news about it. Other areas seem to have been hit harder than our immediate area. Small consolation...