Wrong Color!
February 9, 2025
This is Mary. She’s been our gardener for the last three years or so (and I hope for years and years to come). She’s great.
She had just cut down [most of] our Chinese pistache, planted about 5 years ago, because DANG if it wasn’t the wrong color! Its leaves turn a nice yellow in the fall, which is fine.. but our sycamore also turns yellow and the idea was to have a pistache that had bright red leaves in the fall to offer a contrasting color in our front yard. Leaf color can apparently vary from pistache to pistache and you don’t know necessarily what you’re going to get unless you purchase your tree in the fall and see its leaves.
I’ve been wanting to replace this tree for a few years now.. and we finally got that ball rolling. We’re going to abandon the pistache variety altogether and go with a maple (I forget the exact type), which WILL have very bright red leaves. It also won’t be as large, so won’t crowd the still very much growing sycamore.
The stump was bigger than expected, so Mary’s coming back later with additional tools. We should be planting the tree (and another crepe myrtle on the north side of the driveway) in the next few weeks.
Life of Wry 