bobm
Garden Master
NYboy .... You know the rose hips that I sent you from the wild rose that grew on the ditch bank along a State Highway just behind our house, is now on the ground in a million pieces. The Washington Highway work crew came and unloaded a Bobcat with a whirlybird blade ( like an edger with a hood on it ) and in less than a few minutes made mincemeat out of a few 10- 15 foot tall cottonwood trees as well as the wild rose bush. About a month ago the State Highway crew cut down a large Cottonwood tree that started leaning over our next door neighbors house and was in danger of falling onto their house. So they cut it down and poured stump killer onto the stump. They left and left the tree lay in the drainage ditch where it fell, creating another water flow barrier. A few days later about a 40 foot tall 2 trunked Cottonwood tree just 5 feet away started to have it's leaves to wilt and die. About a week ago the neighbor called the Highway Department and told them about the dying tree, so yesterday a guy came to look at the tree . I talked to him and we chatted for about a half hour about what is happening with the Cottonwood trees as well as the blackberry tangles down stream from this tree which were acting a dam to severely ristrict storm drainage. This causes the backed up water to rise up and over the ditch bank and onto our land. He said that he will send out a crew to see just how they could remedy the situation. Stay tuned for what will happen after lunch and thereafter.