August 2, 2012

• A TREE GROWS IN MIDLAND

  In 1999 we had some landscaping done to the front of the house.  The nursery put in a dwarf Coralburst crabapple tree that they assured us would not grow to more than about ten feet high.  This is what it looked like.

  

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, it looked pretty pathetic. But look at it in 2012.

  

  Ten feet high?  I don’t THINK so.  It obviously is not a dwarf variety.

  So we called the nursery people to come back, and the guy said, yes, they got fooled.  The grower told them it would max out at about ten feet but …  

  We had the nursery’s tree pruner weave his magic on it, and now it looks like this.

  

  It’s still bigger than we wanted, and the pruner says it will need more work next year.  So much for having a nice little tree in that space.  We could have it removed and start over, but we’re not that highly motivated.

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