Removing A Volunteer Tree To Create More Sunlight 🌳 ☀️
1 Video View·Jan 24, 2023
In today’s video we are cutting down a large volunteer tree just the other side of my garden. I have no idea what this tree is, but it’s obviously some sapling which seeded itself and has now grown quite large, and if we leave it for another couple of years it’s going to take the only remaining bit of sunshine from my garden … and I am not having that!! 😊
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Good morning everyone, it's Jeanette here from Enthusiastic Gardener and today
Richard is going to future proof this garden for sunshine. What I wanted to show you is,
as you know I have all the trees here and if you look here that's the west side of the garden
and then round here is the south and you can see I have that tree there.
So there's this here, this is a volunteer tree hopped up by itself and I said to Richard
if we leave that there that's only going to get bigger, that's our only bit of spare sky.
If we leave it a couple of years we're going to have no sun in this garden which is a tragedy.
So let's hand over to Richard because he's going to cut it down.
Right it's a cold morning, zero it is, but it's not as easy as it looks
because it's in the middle of a bush so I can't get it from this side or the other side.
Oh we can't get it around the other side? No because it's in the middle of a hedge.
Should we go around and have a look? No I'm going to lean across and cut it from this side.
But it's just going to sprout you know that?
Yeah it will sprout but I'm not digging it out. No no no I didn't expect you to dig it out I just
thought you could cut it at the base. You can't get to the base. Oh so we haven't got to go around
the other side? No hopefully I'm going to do it from this side. All right. It's in the middle of
Okay what tools do we need Rich?
Saw. Okay Richard to the rescue.
At least you've got something to stand on. Oh can you reach? Yes I can. What do I do without
Richard? Can you imagine me trying to do this? While Richard's cutting this I'm going to show
you what I was up to at six o'clock in the morning a couple of days ago.
Well we have snow again and yes I think it was about five o'clock this morning. It's Monday
morning the 16th. It does look very pretty but before I go to work I just wanted to
just shake off the snow from my trekkie carpus because you can see the branches
all falling downwards and I don't want that so I'm just coming out quickly
to hopefully, oh hang on let's put my glove on, just try and get the the snow off as best I can
and you can see it just it raises it up straight away.
Not what you need on a Monday morning but you've got to look after your plants
and it bounces back up straight away and look it just helps a little bit.
I think we're expecting more snow today at 10 o'clock 10 a.m. I don't suppose Richard will
come out and do this at 10 o'clock. There we go one more. This one is my newest frond. I think
the fronds come up from the middle. That's it. Well that's the best the best I can do.
It does look very pretty. I think all my other topries they're okay. It didn't really settle
on them very much so they'll be fine. So a wonderful Monday morning. I hope the traffic's
not too bad because over here any slight bit of snow the traffic is at a standstill
and I don't want to be late. Yes yes excellent.
Now we'll go around the other side that's just a public
walkway around there. We have sunlight again excellent and we'll just go around the other side
go through the garage.
There we are. So you can see this is the other side of our garden which is just a public
walkway. Yeah oh yeah I see what you mean. I wouldn't have been able to get to it. No there's
kind of a corner street view. Shall we leave it there or shall we take it around the side?
Can we look around here? These are the trees that are the other side of my garden
and the council did say that I have permission to cut them back. Could you not cut this one Rich?
Just this one. You can see I asked them if they will cut them back and that's how they do it.
But Richard thinks that is too difficult.
Later you'll be surprised. Yeah I'm not sure you would need a chainsaw for that.
Yeah where can we get one of those?
Thank you very much.
That's brilliant though because now as you can see we're gonna have a little bit more sunshine
than we would have had otherwise. That's my Saturday morning job. Yes thank you.
Have a nice weekend. It really is too cold for gardening today. I was thinking of coming out but
having been out I've changed my mind so I'm going in do a little bit of housework or
something instead. Thank you so much for watching. Make a cup of tea. Make a cup of tea. I'm Jeanette
I'm The Enthusiastic Gardener. I hope you're having fun in your gardens wherever you are
and we will see you very soon. Bye!