Spring Cleaning.

3-26-08 SHORT HILLS: It was a gorgeous spring day almost reaching the sixties. I did clean up in the area where the utility pole and tree came down a few weeks ago. I pruned the shrubs that were damaged by the falling tree parts and cut up the fallen, broken branches for mulch. Several forsythias are reduced to a couple stalks two or three inches tall, but they’ll be back. Forsythia can endure total neglect and enormous trauma. Other shrubs that were beat up include: spice bush, burning bush, buckthorn, witchhazel, honey suckle. I replaced three broken fence rails and buried some of the tree trash and fertilized. The rest is up to the plants.

Here are a couple of the crocuses: