Trees

I bet they call our street Oak, for a reason. It must be all Oak trees! And Hickory and Maple and Pine trees as well. Hundreds of them actually. I think it's all so beautiful. You know how Bill feels about it. Messy, messy, messy. He would like to have ALL of our trees cut down. He says there are plenty of trees in our neighbors yards for me to look at. Goober. I try to tell him it's not the same thing!

Last week though, we had ONE tree that we BOTH wished we didn't have, cut down. It was a Hickory tree. Not terribly big but in the worst spot! 6 feet in front of our front door, literally. What a weird place to plant a tree. It turned out to be a really good idea because it had termites!!! And even though it wasn't terribly big, it made a huge difference in the way our yard looks! You can see our front door now! It's great.
Over the weekend, we went to the Flower and Patio Show. What a big waste of $$. There was only one exhibit that had anything we liked. The rest of them just had all of the same things you see everywhere you look. So we really liked this pine bush thingy called a Golden Spreader.


Then there was the Weeping Alaskan Cedar....

But you really have to see it in person to appreciate it's uniqueness. It's leaves are like a kind of Juniper looking thing...

The only thing I know for sure I want to plant, is Dwarf Mondo Grass, in the backyard.