Finnegan had his first trim this week. I include a before picture a couple of weeks ago and the “day of” image. Witness the transformation from bear cub to dog.

The back garden looks particularly nice now with lots of self-seeded columbine in several colours together with iris and early daylily I transplanted from when my in-laws sold their vacation place in Bobcaygeon.

I also trimmed more branches from the maple tree. My goal is to remove a couple more of the large lower limbs and then see if this improves the tree’s vigour over the season and next year. Today I learned that if I can it is better to use the pole saw to trim off the very high branches. They rotate 90° and fall leafy parts straight down and “bouncing.” A chain saw cuts “too” fast so that the limb doesn’t rotate much and it falls heavily “log first” over a larger area.