This is a before shot from last June ... our wonderful enormous productive lemon tree down the coast needed a proper prune - and we had let it get so enormous that a professional was needed. Apparently lemon trees can take a fairly robust cutback but CHRIST ON A BIKE LOOK AT IT
I don't think we'll be getting any lemons this year. Although it is valiantly blossoming! What a tree.
On the plus side the kitchen is getting way more light, and the lawn might stop dying. We are going to pressure wash the bricks, get rid of those piles of pavers (the plan is to use them to pave the top part of the driveway, but that may also require professional intervention), remediate the grass and wash the windows. It is perhaps mankier under there than we had realised. And replace the side fence! I didn't see my neighbour last weekend but it might be time to knock on the door.
OMG your poor tree, that's a serious prune. It's amazing that it has all that new growth on it already. I can imagine how much more light you'll have inside though :-)
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