My Mom and step-dad Mike just bought a 1920’s farm house. It hasn’t been lived in for so long that there were 35 foot/more trees growing out of the bush-beds and damaging and growing around the eaves of the house.
Heck of a hedge. Mike and I did some trimming this weekend. Mimosa and Hackberry, poison ivy and black-walnut…some removed, some trimmed back.
The West Side
![westsidebefore](http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/westsidebefore.jpg)
The west side before trimming
![westafter](http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/westafter.jpg)
The west side after trimming
![westafter2](http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/westafter2.jpg)
Another view of the west side after trimming
The East Side
![eastafter](http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/eastafter.jpg)
The east side after trimming
The back
![backbefore](http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/backbefore.jpg)
The back before trimming
The Front
![front](http://theoldvictorian.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/front.jpg)
The front, just so you can see it...
With temps over 100 degrees, we didn’t last very long…knocking off early both Saturday and Sunday, but we did get a fair amount done! We moved several thousand pounds of branches and stuff.
More later! The interior cleanup has been just as dramatic!
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer