For awhile now, Dave & I have been talking about putting tree/shrubs along our back fence, to give us some lovely greenery & mitigate noise from passing cars. Yesterday, we jumped right in with both feet & purchased 24 (yes, 24!) arbor vitaes from Costco.
Our plan: to plant them on the top of the burm that runs along the fence. Here is Dave when we were just getting started (notice that he's still smiling):
And here's what we didn't reckon for: you can't plant a tree on a slope.Yikes! You can imagine the looks on our faces when we figured out that we would have to level the entire top of the 10-foot deep, 60-foot long burm.
But never fear: Dave & I refused to quit! Here is what it looked like after the first tree went in:
And halfway done:
And finally, roughly 12 hours later, the last tree went in!
For the record: I helped (I worked on the irrigation trench), but my husband did almost all of the work. (Thank you, Love!)A triumphant Dave!
And since it was just about dark by the time he finished tonight, I'll have to post a better 'finished!' picture later. It looks so good!
