Pulled the last of the leaves off most trees, so I could store them in the cold house for the winter. Was wearing shorts yesterday, and a coat today! 3 trees went in with leaves, 2 beech and the clump hornbeam is still stubborn so I'll let them stay and clean them up after they fall on their own. Here are some photos. These will be getting more cutback later on in the winter, I just did enough to make storage easy for now. My maples had an off year, it was dry here and hot for a lot of the summer. I did partial defoliations on them and they never really put out additional foliage. They are full of buds, but look particularly thin. The hackberries are crazy looking, they don't look quite as crazy in person, as you can see the layers in 3d, that all sit on top of each other in flat. Who says that hackberries won't ramify??!! Will cut these back a bunch late winter, they get tip dieback in cold weather, so will wait for that.
Here are the maples
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! Great wonderful Spooky trees! WOW!
