My friend Leah has created a new word:
blorthy, adj.: to be blog worthy.
I've been pondering a tree in my back yard, and decided it was curious enough to be "blorthy":
Have you ever seen a dogwood look like this? (Focus your optics on the trunk...)
Nathan came in after working in the yard and asked if I'd noticed the Werewolf tree. He called it that because it looked like it had hair all over....
I had actually been scratching my head over it for some weeks. When I first noticed this tree, I thought we had a poison ivy vine wrapping itself around it. I went out to study it and see if I needed to break out the RoundUp to eradicate the nasty plant that also plagues our fence-line. Upon closer inspection, this is what I found:
Not a poison ivy vine, but an insane number of dogwood sprouts out of the trunk! I've seen a tree have an occasional sprout or two out of the trunk, but nothing like this, and especially not out of a dogwood... Have you? I think Nathan was on to something when he compared it to a werewolf.
I therefore dub this tree: Were-wood.
3 comments:
that's funny. that's weird how the shoots are coming out of the bottom the trunk. What are you going to do--leave it or cut them off?
I don't really know what to do. Another friend suggested I call a nursery and ask them about it. Just haven't gotten there...
absolutely blorthy! :)
werewolf tree! ha~!
i'd guess you'd be totally fine snipping the little limbs off at the base - but like you say - asking someone at a nursery would probably be a good idea. ;)
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