It's a kiddie pool for insects - giving bees, butterflies or dragonflies a water source that isn't deep enough for them to drown in. Get a shallow dish, put stones or pebbles in the bottom and add some water. Buy one online or at a store like Matson's, or make your own. You can even use it as a platform for a fountain, using a solar- or battery-powered garden fountain.Īudrey Matson, owner of Egg|Plant Urban Farm Supply in St.
Or you could park a bird bath on top of it.
Set a bowl or a bucket on the stump for a dog watering station. "I thought it could give people something to focus on - besides the grief of losing trees," Leach said. Paul, local artist Chillon Leach got a micro-grant from the Union Park District Council to create a tree stump garden using fabric pots to grow squash, melons, pumpkins and marigolds. When ash trees were removed from a stretch of Dayton Avenue in St. D isguise it altogether by putting an old wine barrel over it and planting in that. You could simply place a pot of plants on the stump, or hollow out the middle of the stump and plant annuals directly in the stump. Using a tree stump as a planter is a popular ideas on Pinterest and DIY landscaping websites. Until then, try one of these crafty ideas: One caution: If you see the "Tree work" signs go up to remove the stump, prepare to remove your stump bling. So you can stare at a homely stump - or you can use this opportunity for some creative yard decor. Depending on funding, it may take three to four years for those stumps to be removed, according to Ralph Sievert, park board forestry director. That number is expected to grow to about 6,000 by the end of the year. There are about 3,000 boulevard stumps that need to be ground out. The Park and Recreation Board has been removing about 5,000 ash trees a year for the past eight years. In Minneapolis, the wait could be longer. If you lose the ash in the boulevard this year, you likely will have to wait a year before the stump is removed and a new tree is planted, according to the St. Paul has taken down nearly 22,000 boulevard ash trees, including 2,555 so far this year. That's meant a backlog of stumps that have yet to be ground out. Paul and Minneapolis have had to cut down thousands of boulevard trees in recent years.
Thanks to the emerald ash borer infestation, St. If you're a homeowner in the Twin Cities, there's a chance that you have an ugly stump in front of your house.
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