|
We pulled the old cubby house that stands
beside all of this, down (I've never featured it in the photos
for obvious reasons). However, on the other side of the cubby house
is another garden featuring a magnificent tree. Now the cubby is
down, I've got great plans to join the two gardens together. Of
course we could be looking at the year 3000 before I find enough
time to do it, but the thought is there. The tree has a bit of
history. It originally stood beside the house until we decided to
extend. Much to the builders annoyance and horror,
the tree was so close we actually angled the extensions away from it
so as to preserve it. I have to say in all the time it took to build
the extension, the builder and his workmen never once harmed the
tree.
Once the extension was up and functioning I
realised the tree was going to grow and would eventually bust into
the walls and floor. So, with the aid of one of our able bodied
friends, he and my husband attempted to uproot the tree and replant
it. It didn't work! They literally snapped it off at the root!
Neither of them were game enough to tell me for quite some time, and
the able bodied friend actually took off leaving my poor husband to
tell the tale. I couldn't believe it and stood looking at the crude
stump sticking out of the ground with the top of my beautiful tree
lying beside it. Super Glue even crossed my mind. There was
absolutely nothing you could do. (I did stick the top of the tree
back in the ground in a remote area of the front yard, as I just
couldn't toss it away that quickly. It of course died a natural
death. I cried all day that day and couldn't speak to my husband for
some time.
He spent the next week trying to track down
another tree of the same species. Finally he found one and it was
delivered and planted about two weeks later. At a mere cost of
$400!! It was planted beside the now extinct cubby house.
What the hell sort of tree was this thing you
might expectedly ask. It is a fir tree from the bottom of the Himalayan
Mountains. Not something
easily found in your average Aussie nursery.
It grows majestically and has uprooted the
pavers around it. No doubt it would eventually have uprooted the
cubby house had we left it there. The local tree surgeon told me it
would eventually reach the pool and crack the sides, but not in my
lifetime, so it remains.
And
more
of
the
girls |
