Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Italian Cypresses Won this Round... Grrrrr....

Feeling pretty defeated this week after trying to dig up 5 yes FIVE Italian Cypress trees from the front of my parent's house. For some reason my mom wants them gone so I'm like hells yeah I'll take them!! 




Here's The Hubs trying to dig up one... it didn't go over well... a hurt back... finding out the root ball is over 2 ft. wide AFTER digging for half an hour... blistered hands...


We will be back for them with gloves and better equipment - those suckers are in there deep! 

They are THE BEST for creating a wall for privacy. They grow super fast - like 2 -3 ft. a year. I want to plant a bunch along the side and back of my house. 


And eventually (hopefully) they will look something like this:


And I'll put two in the front of my house and it'll look just like this:


;)



6 comments:

Elizabeth said...

OMG those are gorgeous! What a great gift from your mama! Those are perfect for privacy and are so good looking...
xoxox -e (modern24seven)

ieatenchiladas said...

Should have played croquet - just sayin.

Ginger said...

Imagine if one of the real tall ones in a row died!

Melissa Crochet said...

After ya'll put those in the ground people are going to think they are looking at a mansion on St. Charles Ave. I'm jealous!

lucy said...

how beautiful and gorgeous place! especially I like the first picture very much.

Tiago said...

Some years ago I stayed in a buenos aires rent for holidays, and then I traveled to the south of Argentina. There are a region colognized by wales. They have inmigrated to Argentina in the XIX century but as the Patagonia is unbelievable windy they could farm anything. But then, they planted thousands of Cypresses in lines to create walls to stop the wind. That was a success and now this region (Chubut) is full of farmers!