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Funky Looking but kinda cool! It's going to be awesome in the summer when it gives me natural shade
No more needles dropping now. lolol
I kinda wanna keep it going to show you guys how you can chop the top off a mature Pine and it keeps regrowing but I may be taking it down and planting something in its place. Not sure yet.
One thing is for sure, without a center shoot now, all its energy will go into the side branches and they are gonna grow wild. I have to chop off the sides too at least the high branches.
When we purchased this house 25 years ago, the previous owners had planted five white pines in the back yard along the side perimeters. We have only kept one. They do shed needles a few times a year in the Summer, and just keep going on and on and on. About five years ago we had some heavy wind storms. The majority of the damage in our area was to white pines. Branches snapped taking down power lines and blocking streets. Four of the pines in our yard sustained a lot of damage. One started tilting. We had them all taken down along with the much-despised Norwegian maple that I kept hounding my husband about because I believed it was not healthy for a number of years and should have been taken down. Three large branches fell, two on our roof and took down the gutter.
The remaining white pine is doing well and doesn't appear to be affected as much by the wind.
I have one white pine that needs trimmed back away from my roof this year because the previous owners hadn't had it done in at least 20-30 years. The last combo of freezing rain, sleet, and snow made me a bit nervous because the tree is over 90 ft. tall.
Quick update... Pine tree as usual survives the topping off.
Compare it to the pictures above and you can see its even filling in again. This was just taken today
It provided natural shade this summer and boy I was glad I didn't remove it. I'll just keep topping it off. I do hate the needles it drops though. And the sap
Dropping needles now. Mowed some in but raked up the rest
More on tree still have to fall. Look at the leader on the left after I topped it off. Trees are so resilent. It's filling in again. I'm gonna have to top it again in a couple years.
This is about the 4th time I topped this Pine tree. Poor thing is like am I growing wide, tall, what do you want me to do. Just keep growing and providing shade for me. :-)
We have two massive pines between my neighbor’s house and mine. We get a ton of pine needles from late July through October. I don’t think it’s much of an exaggeration when I say a ton. I would like to take them down but I am reluctant for a number of reasons, including cost.
We have a beautiful Beech tree near our patio that provides the perfect amount of shade. It is always the first to drop its leaves in late September/early October. Next to drop its leaves is our Red Maple, then the Oaks, and last is the two Crimson Maples. I have a zero-turn with a 42” deck and I still have to rake first as the leaves and pine needles are just too much for the mower. Thankfully, the leaves are only that dense for a couple weekends and I can use the mower until about Thanksgiving, at which point it goes into the shed until April.
A lot of beauty, but also a lot of work.
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