The Trees - Part 2

Louanne on Sep 20th 2008

So here is what happened to the first set of trees we bought:

Dead Trees 

The people at Native Shade were either dishonest or ignorant, and so we lost the money. They refused to give us a warranty once the trees were in place - claiming our soil was the problem. After talking to an arborist and other gardening type people, we found the truth was you don’t transplant Red Oaks in the middle of the summer! Either way we were taken advantage of because we knew nothing about trees or gardening.

From this we learned about the pH of the water in our part of town, all about our soil, the types of trees that will thrive and when the best time of year to plant is. Thank you Arborist Sandy Rose at Shade Masters. So now I present the new trees - from Treeland Nursery tree farm! (Complete with a warranty)

We replaced the dead Red Oak in the front yard with a nice, large Bald Cypress. We replaced the dead Red Oak in the back with another Red Oak, but moved it over about eight feet to match the contour of our new patio. We also added two beautiful Autumn Blaze Maples along the fence. We expect to enjoy all of them greatly.

  

Click the photo above to see the whole photo album.

Trees - Part 2 

Trees - Part 2 

Trees - Part 2 

Trees - Part 2 

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9 Responses to “The Trees - Part 2”

  1. # Kylaon 20 Sep 2008 at 10:49 am

    Oh wow! I’m totally envious of your new shade. Those are beautiful trees!

  2. # catherinethegreaton 20 Sep 2008 at 4:27 pm

    Great trees. I am sure you will enjoy the shade they bring for years to come…

  3. # staci pattersonon 20 Sep 2008 at 4:55 pm

    I can’t believe they wouldn’t refund your money! Usually stuff like that has at least a one year warranty, that is such a bummer. But I love the new trees, I didn’t know you could have green stuff in Texas. Ha ha, just kidding. Enjoy your new shade :)

  4. # Louanneon 20 Sep 2008 at 8:08 pm

    Staci - yeah everywhere has a warranty, but they didn’t give us one in writing, so we can’t do anything but take them to small claims court and we don’t want to go through all that. Now we know that we should have done the research and not trusted the tree farm owners.

    I believe that if those are the sorts of ethics you have in business it will come back to get you in the end. Maybe not this year, but you just can’t be that way and it not reflect on your life in some way.

  5. # Saraon 21 Sep 2008 at 11:03 am

    Hi Girl… I love what you’re doing to the place. Come on over to my place and get your award you’ve won!

  6. # KathyPon 22 Sep 2008 at 12:44 pm

    This is a lot greener than I’ve even imagined Texas to be! The new trees look great!

  7. # Cristinaon 22 Sep 2008 at 10:17 pm

    Wow, them sure are some BIG trees!!!

    Cristina xx

  8. # Janis & Joyon 22 Sep 2008 at 10:52 pm

    Now those are much better!

  9. # Lesaon 01 Oct 2008 at 7:55 pm

    This reminds me so much of our experience as a young couple. We had a tree guy come out to us door to door and their name was Mata. Well it just happened that they sold us dead/dieing trees and same as you were taken for all we paid on those two trees!!
    We now say remember when….. Lessons well learned.

    Those new trees look so pretty in your yard!!

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