Tree Strangling and Child Wrangling

I finished picking all the rocks out of the flower bed in the front and then offed them to a very kind friend who actually came around and loaded them into her truck.
As I cleaned out the bed I discovered that the ignoramous who planted the tree had ringed it with bricks and red rock and tightly wrapped it with landscape fabric...when it was a sapling!! It grew to maturity with an hourglass figure where the fabric strangled it,and it grew inspite of the idiots that planted it, but it suffered a split trunk and black virus. I I dug down deeper to free up more red lava rock I discovered that they had surrounded it even more with old pavers virtually burying it in a coffin of brick trash.
We had it innoculated and pruned by an arborist last year and after days and days of rock picking it is free  at last. I hope it doesn't keel over in shock.






This little person doesn't have the same sense of gardening that I do. I am not saying who is right but one of us ended up in the tub. She helped spread new loam in the old bed and carefully sprinkled it around and tasted it and stuffed it down her shirt and in her pockets.  and filling up the bird bath....