corpse palm

Now that a sufficiently long length of time has elapsed since we initially suspected that the palm tree in the back garden which came free with the house was dead to be sure that it definitely is dead and that what might have been some fresh leaf-shoots were also dead, it's probably time to do something about it. Whilst it was almost definitely the cold winter which did for it it can't have been helped by having had a largish chunk of outer bark mangled off by one of the bastard shitting cats which infests the street using it as a waypoint on its journey up to the top of the fence. Hopefully removing the remainder of the tree will slightly irritate the cats, which will have to find a slightly different route through the garden. Booby-trapping the tree to trap or otherwise inconvenience the cats would be more fun but would take too much time.