It has now been so hot for so long this summer (still having 120F days, a couple in a row within the last week) that despite all the watering my trees have been sacrificing major limbs and even trunks to try to save themselves. I gave up on all the lantana that was still left in the front yard and street side outside the fence and have been removing it as I have time and strength, but it is too hot to do any yard work, and has been for almost the entire summer.
Somewhere around the time of the above post, I had started trimming off the already-dying-from-the-heat limbs, and had made two SUV-sized piles that needed to be cut into shorter lengths (less than 4feet) for bulk trash pickup. I took a week off work early in summer when we had slightly cooler weather and stayed up all night to do as much of the work as I could then, but I only got about half of that cut up and ready for pickup.
Since then I have been able to add very little to that, and at this point have even more than that entire pile to now trim off the trees, that has died from the even more extreme heat since then. :/ Some of the trees are more like bushes now, for what's left alive. One of hte largest and oldest, on the east side of the house in back, barely has part of a trunk and a couple of branches left, and it had been more than twice as tall as the house.
JellyBeanThePerfectlyNormalSchmoo is still doing alright, as she usualy stays sprawled in the house on the tile somewhere, occasionally visiting me wherever I am at the time.
Somewhere around the time of the above post, I had started trimming off the already-dying-from-the-heat limbs, and had made two SUV-sized piles that needed to be cut into shorter lengths (less than 4feet) for bulk trash pickup. I took a week off work early in summer when we had slightly cooler weather and stayed up all night to do as much of the work as I could then, but I only got about half of that cut up and ready for pickup.
Since then I have been able to add very little to that, and at this point have even more than that entire pile to now trim off the trees, that has died from the even more extreme heat since then. :/ Some of the trees are more like bushes now, for what's left alive. One of hte largest and oldest, on the east side of the house in back, barely has part of a trunk and a couple of branches left, and it had been more than twice as tall as the house.
JellyBeanThePerfectlyNormalSchmoo is still doing alright, as she usualy stays sprawled in the house on the tile somewhere, occasionally visiting me wherever I am at the time.
