The Big Tree

This isn't new news, but three weeks of back and forth across the country have left me feeling, well, actually a little bit jet lagged to tell the truth.  It's not actual jet lag, but the effect of packing, unpacking, repacking, finding tuxedo, reordering tuxedo, dress shopping with Mom, gearing up car for 10 hour car trip, shuffling plane tickets/hotels/business trips two days before departure, family visits, and a GIANT SUPER FUN WEDDING all set to the unending background chatter of a 4 year old kind of jet lag.

Back to the old news.  We got some new landscaping.  Notice I said we GOT new landscaping not we DID new landscaping. Yes indeed.  Putting in a good sized tree is something I'm happy to pay someone else to do.  Frankly, it's just a pain in the patootie to drag a big tree home from the nursery and then to dig a big fat hole.

We picked out a purple leafed plum tree that won't get too big and shouldn't take over our house or driveway like some other unnamed trees in our yard (hint hint, giant spruce tree we have to pay large sums of money to have trimmed back every year because it's too tall to do ourselves).

That poor old tree looked kind of lonely over there in that lovely rock bed all by himself, so we added on a little DIY planting/transplanting.

The poor transplanted shrub is a little smaller than the new ones.  I hope it catches up.  We also expanded the bed by the front door by taking out one of the last antique junpers last fall.  New shrubs and plants went in this spring.  Since the hard labor was done last fall all we had to do was amend soil and plant this spring, all the fun stuff!

We still have bunnies ravaging our vegetation, so even though I only buy rabbit "resistant" plants I have to cage off ones that aren't as rabbit proof as they claim.  I do a check about every other morning to make sure they aren't chewed down to nubs.  Doing better this year than last.