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It’s getting easier! Practice and bathing go a long way to help success!

It’s getting easier to trim the dood at home. Our Mondou pet store has a bathing station and then we come home for the hair cut. I tried without the spa treatment- wash, conditioner, detangler, blow dry but it’s so much easier after bathing!

Went to add the kitchen waste and found these lovelies.

Started planting willow branches in appropriate wetlands.
Looking for your experiences, challenges and successes.

Visiting the indoor track in Bromont Quebec. This place is amazing!

https://centrenationalbromont.com/

These trees, ash and walnut, were growing in the meadow in front of our home. We want it to stay meadow, so these will root for a while in pots and are destined for a new home in the community.
Happy planting!

Lovely group tree walk this morning.
We planted three willows along a creek, explored the wildflowers and found many of the new seedlings (about 300) in the recovering golf course.

I’m happily amazed at the resilience of the willow. A friend gave me some sticks from a pile he had pruned a day or two before. They looked dried out.
Just put them in a bucket he said.
And they started rooting!
This opens all kinds of possibilities!

On today’s planting adventure, I planted three maple seedlings in an overgrown ditch beside a fence beside a soccer field.

Nobody maintains the vegetation in the ditch. It’s messy, full of “weeds.”

But that just means it won’t get whipper snippered or mowed.

Did I ask permission?
“Sorry, what?”

And the site will benefit from trees!

This was a fairway of a golf course 5 years ago. “Pristine” grassy lawn…
Then the golf course stopped operations and THIS happened!
West Quebec.
Makes me smile.

Good news story!!

I’ve been reforesting a 40 acre meadow a few trees at a time.
Most trees do well but I lose some to rodents or deer browsing. Three oak trees were munched over the winter - only a small dry stick was left (see second photo.. I kept checking but gave up, assuming they were dead. I checked them yesterday and two have sprouted new leaders and are doing very well.
Made me smile!

Good news story!!

I’ve been reforesting a 40 acre meadow a few trees at a time.
Most trees do well but I lose some to rodents or deer browsing. Three oak trees were munched over the winter - only a small dry stick was left (see second photo.. I kept checking but gave up, assuming they were dead. I checked them yesterday and two have sprouted new leaders and are doing very well.
Made me smile!

More erosion control in a recovering ex-golf course.

This is a sandy embankment with exposed sloping sand… rain and snow melt causes erosion. I planted three pine trees in small bowls to catch water, added mulch to slow down water and created a bowl in the lower sand to slow water… more mulch coming. The trees will help stabilize over time.

More erosion control in a recovering ex-golf course.

This is a sandy embankment with exposed sloping sand… rain and snow melt cause erosion. I planted three pine trees in small bowls to catch water, added mulch to slow down water and created a bowl in the lower sand to slow water… more mulch coming. The trees will help stabilize over time.

This is my first attempt at creating willow trees from willow sticks. There’s an ex golf course re-wilding with some wetter lowlands where these could thrive.
Any advice?

I planted two packs of sunflower seeds seeds in this hillside beside our community baseball diamond. I kept my expectations low… but some are coming up.
I’ve since convinced the municipality to let this smalls space return to meadow. It’s beautiful!

I often walk our dog at night. I passed these trees that we planted in 2022. They are backlit by floodlights at our community center. I know it’s not ideal for the trees, but they look magnificent.