
There is significant traffic right outside. It is one of the three busiest roads around. No one here really minds, because we are mostly too busy with something else while we are here. We are accustomed to it as part of the ‘scenery’. The noise sometimes makes it necessary to shout to each other, or take a telephone call somewhere else, but is not too much of a bother otherwise.
However, the scenery that those in the traffic see from the road might be slightly less than appealing. Industrial buildings surrounded by pavement, building materials, work vehicles and all sorts of associated items are all that are in here. Next door, there is a herd of dumpsters! It is a view worth obscuring. Bay trees and box elders that used to screen the view are too tall now.
I should have planted these five Arizona cypress in a row along the road last autumn. If I were to plant them now, I will need to water them occasionally until next autumn, not that I would mind. After their first winter, they would be happy on their own. They would start to obscure the view within only a few years, and unlike box elders, would stay evergreen through winter.
They really should have been planted a long time ago. They have been in the same cans for so long that the medium within has decomposed and collapsed. Without staking, their lean trunks became disfigured in confinement. They really would not have needed to be staked if they had been planted sooner and been able to grow more vigorously. Fortunately, they should recover.
A Monterey cypress will be planted at the low end of the row next Saturday, even if these Arizona cypress are not planted until autumn. I will explain later.
Ah yes I can see. They are funny shapes. Cute doggy
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He knows how to work it too.
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I think that has happened more than once for the home gardener.
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It is a common problem for those of who grow more than we have space for.
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Looks like Rhody agrees with everything you just said, which is good since you work for him.
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I get the impression that my opinions are meaningless to Rhody.
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Well, if he’s the boss, that’s how it works. 😉
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He’s not the boss, just the Emperor.
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Oh, better yet. He’s in charge of lots of things then.
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Everything within his empire.
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Rhody looks like he has the trees well in hand.
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He can be such a ham.
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Good to see Rhody!
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Of course.
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Better late than never.
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Yes, and I know they will recover once they get growing.
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