Name: Rosie HILLSBOROUGH, NC (Zone 7b) If it sparkles - I'm there!
I have one of those lollipop trees. Never knew the shaping style had a name! Mine lost its limbs because snakes climbed up and ate the eggs/ hatched birds and then would linger to stare me in the face as I emerged from the porch. I hang multiple pottery birdhouses and a copper feeder from the branches hanging down at different heights to make up for lack of lower quarters. No birds nest in the houses. I think because they swing on the ropes.
You might try a nice willow chair in there or a metal artzy type.or a bench.....sit a bird feeder or house on it. It would add interest ...and dare I say..add a salt block and this way you can watch the deer...win win...they will come anyway. If you can't beat them.......
I have a mop head and I am close to your zone. It looks good in a wooded setting. I trim it up to suit..it has not harmed it. Thinned one out and keep another at about 4 feet. I used glass mulch once and the deer did not seem to like that. They hurry across the drive too so maybe they just don't like the hard lumpy bumpy gravel feel. The glass mulch sparks real good and is pretty after an occasional hosing to clear off dust.
I think I may have a photo of the mop head....
Don't squat with yer spurs on!
People try to turn back their "odometers." Not me. I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved
