Toward Pine Trees

The mighty White Pine is a kingpin of Ontario history. So I was chuffed to discover several scrawny ones amongst the Thicket. Being crowded by poplar and birch and some unidentifiable scraggly trees, most of them have branches on one side and several have branches only at their crowns. They would make poor Christmas trees, […]

Thicket Progress

Armatures for the thicket are complete for now. There were fewer discards than I anticipated, and so, I may need to demote some of the first row trees to the second row as I start planting if the thicket comes out too diaphanous. Once the armatures were formed and twisted into tree shapes, I coated […]