New Plantings.

4-25-18 SHORT HILLS: We got more than an inch of rain today. It was overcast and cool, when not raining. Yesterday was warm and sunny, and we went to the Farm for the first plant shopping of the year. I started filling holes in the yard left by the storms and the workers last fall.

I bought a small blue spruce, Picea pungens glauca, that went into the spot where the Japanese maple lived. It was a tough planting job because of all the maple roots that had to be cut out. In the spot where the black pine was that fell across the driveway, I put a Korean spice viburnum, V. carlesii ‘Diana’. That spot also had a bunch of roots to saw off. I also filled the in holes left by the tree stump. Earlier I did more pruning and more dead fall removal of elm branches.

New blooms: violet, saucer magnolia, pear tree, clatonia.


Saucer Magnolia. They didn't bloom last year because they were killed by a late frost in April after a warm February.

Violets, their foliage lasts all season unlike the flowers in the last post.

Pear tree in white.

Yoshino cherry very white.