garden june 16, 2005
today i finished up things in the taylor st. garden before new tenants move in july 1. primarily i finished the tea house floor and added a bit of edging to the tea house and a long neglected end of a river rock pathway:
after 3 years in the ground the espaliered pear tree is starting to show some fruit. next year should be huge!
for the first 2 years i destroyed any signs of fruit in order to focus growth on the roots.
the day’s highlight was peering into a robin’s nest 6 feet off the ground within a italian cypress tree. the cool shade of bluish green reminds me of turquoise.
soon we’ll be putting fresh raspberries in our cereal each morning:
The rose is Gertrude Jekyll, an all-time smeller, while the name of the clematis escapes me. The two are quite a pair together.
