Had a master arborist come out to the house today to discuss services. Here above you see a picture of our Live Oak in the back, which is old and beautiful and needs a bit of pruning and clean up. We have Hackberry trees sprouting up everywhere, which are just awful. Their structural integrity is not good and they start falling apart at a certain point and destroy a lot of property...these are prolific trees undesirable by homeowners. In the front, we have a crepe myrtle, which is small and produces pink-purply blossoms later in the spring. This will be pruned gently. The hackberries will be removed, other than a couple of big ones that we will deal with later on. I discovered I have a new pecan tree growing back there, a baby from the neighbor's stately pecan tree. It is going to be decades before our baby becomes such a being...but nice to have it. There is a dying mesquite that we'll deal with next year. Also, there are two mature pear trees in full blossom, which are a lovely first taste of spring. Now on the side of the house is a giant thirty year old Hackberry and it is already starting to fall apart. They will clean it up and reduce the canopy size to take some weight off and get the branches away from the roof. In the very back by the bedroom window is a large Gumbumilia, which has some ball moss in it and has some branches touching the roof. That will be cleaned up and branches removed from the roof. We also have a five year old Chinaberry tree growing between our fence and the neighbor's fence, which we'll deal with next year or so. It is already huge. First things first.
