When we first moved in there was a Sweetgum tree here. It was one of several trees we had removed, for various reasons. We replaced it with a Serviceberry.
This Serviceberry, relocated to the Bench Garden. Each year it would start out fine, nice white flowers and plenty of green foliage. But then it would quickly deteriorate, the leaves turning brown and spotted. It was not happy in that location. Hopefully it will find this one more to its liking, a bit shadier.
Moving the Serviceberry was easier than I expected but still not easy. And it left a big hole. With the remnants of the Sweetgum stump. I chopped away but in the end I gave up and left it there.
We bought the Dogwood from a local nursery, Briands, and they delivered it the next day. So ready or not in it goes!
A bit of manhandling but there it is standing tall.
Patty then cleaned up the area, removing the black plastic ground cover and replanting some of what we'd removed from this little garden island.
She also remove the deteriorating edging, which had been further chopped up by the lawnmower.
And I replaced it with some leftover plastic edging from other garden projects, adding a bit more garden area (and removing a bit more lawn -- less mowing!).
And now the little garden island is covered with a mulch of salt hay, keeping weeds at bay, waiting for the day, that Patty's seedlings will be ready to plant.
And for those April showers ...
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