Planting a river birch

I have been trying to post this blog for over a week now....

Garland gave me a river birch tree for Mother's Day to replace a cherry tree that dies last summer during our drought & heat wave..

I love the bark on the river birch..so much texture & interest.. the leaves are nothing to comment on, and the fall color is blah too...but the bark makes up for all that.

This is the dead tree we are replacing.

It sits at the end of the flower garden at the back of the yard.

We have 2 other river birch trees planted. Here you can see that really wonderful bark..

I have seen curtain rods made with mature branches in some of my log/cottage home magazines.

Maybe I will be able to do something like that in our home in a few years.


Garland cutting the dead tree down...

Wilhelmina finds refuge under the branches...

until we cart them to the brush pile to burn later...

the branches NOT the cat!

Garland digging the new hole for the birch tree... He is such a great husband!

And the tree is planted.. I had that bird feeder that i built many years ago...I put it on the dead tree stump for now, not sure if I like it there...needs painting and some repairs.