The Chop...

After planting the Paulowia Tomentosa three years ago as a mere twig. I've enjoyed watching it get taller and taller and now very much a proper tree, but  it was always destinded for the big chop. Which it got the other day, I couldn't see a fifty foot tree fitting into my landscape. The deed done I'm looking forward to even more dramatic leaves this year. Now it's on to the Eucalyptus...

February Bloom day 2013...

 I may only  have a few blooms this February Bloomday , but I'm happily posting this in the sun .

And for much more in the way of February blooms May Dreams Gardens

These February tidy ups...

At least we have the grasses...

For the love of Crocus...

 I see a mass planting of crocus in my future. Here I have a huge area under  my Big Rhododendron left unoccupied with only the suckering Lillac, till the Erythroniums and T.Sylvestris appear in late spring. Now it I had  only thought about this last Autumn. But I only started reading E.A. Bowles 'My garden in Spring' this winter.
Rhodies and Lillac underplanted with C.atticus which is now C. sieberi subsp.atticus. or C.crewei now C. biflorus , or perhaps I should just stick with Tommies !

This morning at the pond...

Amazed to to see how much Muehlenbeckia has grown,  or am I , thinking I might try running the lawn mower over it this summer ...just for fun!