Son and his fiancé moved into my father’s old house, about a hundred yards from us a couple months ago. We renovated the interior of the house and did some maintenance type stuff with landscaping but being it was winter when they moved in, all agreed we would leave the landscaping through spring so they could see what it all really looks like when it’s in bloom and/or green. This is a good example:
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When they moved in, this was a plain, leafless tree in the yard of the still unoccupied house on the other side of the ridge from them but in their sight as much as any part of their front yard. But, in the spring, it is covered with purple blossoms. So all agree it stays.
Most of the azaleas, boxwoods, and dogwoods are also staying. But these on the carport end of the unoccupied house; they’re 25 to 35 years old and they’re just not doing well. Never have. Popped them out with the grapple, dumped the root balls in the hole where we dump such things.
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Chipped the tops and also picked up a grapple load out of the perennial brush pile to add more chips to that area plus a couple of trees where we added border for mulch.
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Also, we have this odd area where a developer owns the west side, another developer owns the east side, and we own a 60’ wide strip though the middle separating their two properties. (Which of course they’re very happy about.)
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Right now, it’s grassy. When the soil temp rises later in the year, kudzu will take over the entire area. Even before the grass, there are several clumps of daffodils that bloom, probably a couple hundred bulbs. If you look really closely on the right side of the barely visible trail in the first pic you might see one of the clumps. They just finished blooming. How they got there, no clue. Most of them happen to be on our 60’ x 400’ strip so we dug up probably 150 or so and moved them; some to our place and some to the other houses. Yeah, I know we probably should have moved them over winter when they were dormant but they have at least some chance of survival if they’re moved. Long story that’s still in progress, but not likely they’ll have any chance if they’re not moved.
Despite a bit of intermittent rain, it was still a nice afternoon of pretty low stress working with wife, son, and son’s fiancé’.