Mancana Ash

Two blocks down the road from us is a popular nursery and we decided we just couldn't stand having nothing to look at out our windows anymore! So we bought a Mancana Ash, which our city here uses to line the downtown streets as they are low maintenance trees and provide wonderful shade. here's Andrew as we prepare to do the dirty work!

First we have to dig into our wonderful lawn, that was a very hard thing to do, I think we have good grass and our water bill confirms this for us.

After pulling up the grass we made a good hole to put the tree into.

Putting the soil, peat moss, mulch mixture in and filling in the hole.

All done putting the soil back in, we're getting really excited looking at it now, just a few more things to go.

The stakes go up to give the tree some good support for a year or so.

Andrew giving it the final water, soaking it and giving those roots a great chance to establish themselves in our lawn.

When we retire this is what we hope the tree will look like, you never know!

Oh, and by the way, the lady at the nursery kept calling our tree "him", so we decided to give him a name, and as the type of tree sounds kind of Mexican we're calling him Paco, Paco the Mancana!