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That was probably some of the problem with mine. It was also heavily shaded by the walnuts and pin oak. The soil around here sucks. It would never pass a perc test by modern standards.

The non fruiting(human useful) cherries around here can take a beating, and recover super quick. Not sure about the fruiting cherries. Mine died a couple years ago, and I didn't fool with it much. I'm not real clear on what cherry is what, and how to tell them apart. Some fruit, some don't...

Yea, you're probably right. It'll give me something to do for awhile, and I might get a bit of useful firewood when it finally has to be culled.

Yea, that's ERC. I've got six of them I think lining the driveway. I dug them up on jobs I was working on years ago. That's my favorite native conifer. edit: It's probably not an attractive tree by conventional standards, but they smell nice, and it's native. The birds like it, and it keeps the...

Cypress? The ones right next to it are ERC. The brown you see is from the other side of the drive, and I don't know what it is. Perhaps some kind of juniper. It's a pretty crappy tree. but it has interesting bark/trunk. It's been butchered by the line guys, and I let the interior grow up with...

It's taller than I remembered. I think I was fixated on my proposed cutting location, which is ~10' up. Side view showing the lean. Perhaps pull it over more in that direction? Front view... Proposed cutting location(upper fork). I'm thinking leaving two stubs, and encouurage it to grow...

I'll get a couple pics when I go out next. I'll have to give it a good look, but the options for making it look right are limited. It's growing within the dripline of my erc, under the wires, and over my new leatherleaf viburnum. Kinda thinking about hauling it over to try to give it a "weeping"...

Thanks for the term "subordinate pruning". I was unfamiliar, and a search brought up a lot of good pages on that and other pruning techniques. I don't know much of anything about pruning, and when I searched in the past, it brought up a lot of low quality homeowner type guides. "Subordinate...

Yea, that's what got me interested in it. I have one next to my porch that's basically coppiced. A walnut grew up right next to the house. I kinda liked it there for the shade, but it rubbed some color off the siding, and probably would have torn the porch up. I cut it off, and it gets sprouts...

I wouldn't do it, but it's there, so I might as well see what can be done. Squirrels planted it under the wires, and it isn't in a particularly good place taking the wires out of the equation. Left alone, it'll definitely have to be removed. Maybe it'll turn into something interesting if cut.

I mentioned a walnut next to my drive I wanted to play with. I want to cut everything back to stubs, and see if I can keep it small, though it's already a little taller than I'd like. That'll involve removing all the green. Is it particularly bad doing that this time of year? I believe winter is...