Planting New Trees

Last weekend, we bought six new trees!
We planted a Black Tartan Cherry Tree, an Elberta Semi-Dwarf Peach Tree, and a Red Delicious Apple Tree between the two barns...

It's a sunny area (all three require 6+ hours of full sun), 

& we hope they'll eventually provide some shade for the goat yard.

Mike put stakes & chicken wire around them to prevent the deer from eating before they get established.  

We have to pick up one more apple tree, since it's needed for pollination.  The tag on the tree gives a list of compatible varieties that we can plant.

We also picked up three Leyland Cypress trees...
We planted two of them up on the far side of the back driveway.  The hope is that they'll grow big and block the backyard a bit.  These too require full sun.










The third Leyland Cypress is planted in front of the long privacy fence in the side yard.  This section of the yard is slowly coming along.  You can see a hint of yellow to in the Forsythia bushes on the right.  We want to do a bit of landscaping around our sign.

Close up of Leyland Cypress branch.  These will be pretty to decorate with for the holidays!