Welcome to our tree family

We added a new tree in October and we now have 3 more to go with it! I took advantage of a sale at our local nursery and the shrinking window of our area's planting season to quickly cross a few trees off our gardening to-do list. We saved a bit by having 3 delivered at once but then spent that and more to have them planted for us - they were too big we knew we wouldn't be able to easily do it ourselves. And so I'd like to introduce you to our new cast of deciduous characters:

The Sioux Crepe myrtle, which has beautiful bright orange leaves right now and, we hope, will have cotton candy pink flowers all summer. Plus gorgeous peeling bark.

The only problem with this one is that we wanted it installed where our old oak tree was but apparently after over two years and with the stump chipped down to nothing, there were still large roots. So the planter, with our begrudging approval over the phone, have to move it much farther down than we wanted.

 Which means it is directly under the power lines....Ugh.

We hope to find time (yeah right...) to hack the root up and move it back closer to the corner of the sidewalk before it gets too big.

Tree number two: October Glory Red Maple:

 Keeps its leaves a beautiful autumn color late into the year. As, indeed, it does:

Right now it is super close to the hawthorn, which we plan to dig up and move closer in to the left side of the house to mirror the cherry tree on the right.

And finally, a Burgundy Bell Maple:

Planted in the back of the house near a small, dying tree that we plan to chop down and which will hopefully one day grow up to be a good shade tree.

As you probably guessed from this post, these trees sort of represent the start of having to do *more* work in the yard. Our neighbor, a landscaping expert, gave us some inspiration and we ran with it. At least in theory. We're not exactly sure when we will get around to it but at least we have a bit of a plan.