The treatment for the Emerald Ash borers in our beautiful tree out front failed, and the tree doctor suggested pulling the plug. Incredibly, Mary-Jo phoned me just after I’d started a dog walk to say the tree guys were there to cut it down, and by the time I got back 20 minutes later it was mulch in the back of a truck. Then a man with a machine ending in a giant carbide-tipped circular blade came and cut out the stump. Eleven years of nurturing gone in an instant.
Here’s the stump and the machine that is about to grind it down to sawdust.
We’ll be re-planting in Spring – probably a Ginkgo. Which means The Scarlet Ginkgo Dementor beetle will be discovered in Canada soon afterwards.
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