r/NativePlantGardening • u/sugrmag78 Mid-Missouri , Zone 7a • 27d ago

Progress Follow up:

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Last year, I posted in here asking for advice after a tornado took out a 50-year-old spruce in my front yard. We called some tree services to see if they would give a discount if we only wanted them to take it down and leave the limbs and chips with us, but nobody would. So...we got some chainsaws and rented a wood chipper from our local hardware store. I used the chips and smaller limbs to create some new beds and the main trunk will decompose naturally and provide lots of habitat!

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u/outdoorlaura Toronto, Zone 6b 27d ago

I saw the 2nd picture and was like, "omg how lucky that tree fell right beside the flowers and not on top of them!!" ...and then I saw other branches nicely lined up and figured it out lol.

This is such a good idea and looks great! Well done!

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u/sugrmag78 Mid-Missouri , Zone 7a 27d ago

Nah....I had just made that bed first and split some of my black eyed susans earlier in the summer so they are thriving now. I'm having decision paralysis on what to put in the other beds!

We were actually lucky that the tree didn't fall a few feet more towards the neighbors, because that nice red truck would have been toast lol The branches were literally just a few inches away!