I just moved into a new house in the midwest and am trying to get the
yard under control. I know very little about taking care of trees and
plants, I mostly just mow and trim. So I have some questions about the
yard I hope you can help me with.
There is some type of apple tree in the back yard (small yellow
apples), and it is very bushy around the bottom, it looks like there
are 10 or so 'tree trunks'. There are also branches growing completely
sideways all over, tyring to reach out for sunlight I assume. Should I
be cutting all of these off? I'd like to have the area next to the
tree clear of branches up to 6-7 foot or so, so you can walk all the
way around it. There also seems to be some kind of bush growing right
next to it, or maybe thats still part of the tree. Should I rip all
this out? Pictures he
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2710/smapple1wz2.jpg
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/8798/smapple2vv7.jpg
I wonder if I should cut most of the tree trunks out and leave the 2-4
'best' ones?
Then there is the tree in the front yard. Its pretty small, maybe 10
feet, and doesn't look very good. Should I cut off some of the
branches on the bottom, to encourage height? It doesn't look like its
shaped right at all. Pic:
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/9...onttreeuo9.jpg
Also there is a tree thats close to the house, and in our contract we
had the sellers trim so it wouldn't be touching the house any more. So
they hacked off some pretty large branches (quick & easy I guess), but
it looks like the tree is bleeding where they cut it off:
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/3097/smbleed1xz0.jpg
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/66/smbleed2as0.jpg
Should I do something with those? Is the tree at risk of damage now?
OK, then there are some things growing in the back yard that I have no
idea what they are, and I don't know if I should get rid of them or if
its something I might want. They are building a new 4 lane road 100
feet behind my lot, and I will want something between the house and the
road eventually.
this is in a corner of the back yard:
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/5...nknown1jv7.jpg
close up of leaves:
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6...loseup1rc6.jpg
Then there's this stuff growing right behind my fence:
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/7311/unknown2sd2.jpg
close up:
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/2...closeupbb1.jpg
Thanks a lot for any help!
-Ryan