My Tree is Gone....

My apologies for not blogging lately, but I was on holidays.  And as usual when you go on holidays there is much to do before you leave and lots to catch up on when you get back.  While we enjoyed the nice beautiful hot weather by the lake, when I got back you can imagine my horror to seeing how the plants are coping with the heat.  Alot of the Japanese Maples leaves' are burning as well as many of the other trees, some are defoliating altogether.  But one Japanese Maple is sitting out in the bright sun and doing well - and it is my favourite.  I take billions of pictures around here and I always take some of that guy.  It's funny cause when it was little he didn't look so good - so we put him in the back field where he couldn't be seen.  Now look at him!  Cinderella story or what!  When customers come in I always point out my beauty tree but don't really make an effort to sell it.  They always ooh and ahh on how beautiful it is! And expensive!  So I am confident my tree will be here for a while.  It was a beautiful bright red in the Spring and looked great against the evergreens and the Princeton Maple.  And it is still a nice red now - can hardly wait til fall.  So you can imagine my horror when a couple was interested in the tree.  Oh - how they tried to show them something else but the couple kept coming back to that tree.  And then -egad - they bought it!!!  Agggh!  And then to add more pain - they wanted it the next day!  Not alot of time for parting photo ops!  But I did.  I waited til the end of the day for the sun not to be so bright and then I could catch the red of the leaves.  They dug it after I left and it was already tarped when I got it in the next morning.  What!!!! So I told the crew leader who was planting it that day to phone me when he was close to the customer's house so I could come down and take some photos.  The clients who purchased the tree were fine to let me take some photos (they were very nice!).  So I happliy clicked away.  I must say it looks beautiful in front of their home, but the island bed where it stood looks naked.  It's weird how you get attached to some things. And I must say - I miss my tree.  Really - I mean it is a tree for pete's sake!  I have billion things to blog about but today it is about my tree.  The client's said they would send some pictures of my baby when the landscaping is done - hope they do!

My Tree in the Spring

Another Spring Picture

In the Summer...

The night before it left...

Another parting picture....

Ready to get plantedd

Here we go....

In it;s new home

Bye bye happy tree!

I really does look nice there...

It's amazing what trees can do for a landscape...

I apologize for the gap between blogs.  And I promise not to do it again!  Geez - I might even blog tomorrow I have so much to say!  I guess I focus on going through the nursery for the ever changing scenery that I forget the transformations our crews do on residential and commercial properties.  It really is amazing.  We are currently working on a site that I was able to get pictures from the beginning and during.  And hopefully today they will finish and I can get final pictures of the end product.  I know we are known for our rare and unique plants and mature trees but we do amazing landscape creations as well.  Our crews have over 20 years of installation experience - and are very nice people to boot!  We are finding that people are looking for privacy and do not want to look at a fence.  A natural screen of green is fast becoming the most asked question.  You will see a little of this in the pictures below. We had a film crew in these past 2 weeks as well as on site with some of crews to see these transformations.  Thus the lull in blogs.  They are interested in the mature trees and the installations and all the other stuff that goes on a daily basis.  As I said before - moving big trees always creates a stir maybe because we think of them as timeless and stately.  One thing for sure is it is always interesting and it is always changing!