This blog is a journal of an artist's thoughts and endeavors, namely mine. I will frequently be writing about my art, my hand-crafted art cards in particular, but not always. I love nature, so I will also be talking about my yard and gardens, and the many birds that frequent my feeders. And sometimes I'll be sharing recipes and favorite shops and ......
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
A New Tree
We have a fabulous new tree; it's a 'Wolf Eyes' kousa dogwood. I planted it because a neighbor chopped down a little sappling that my birds really loved; the little guys used the old sappling as a landing strip for one of our suet feeders. And my motto has always been, 'They chop one down. I plant one, at least.' And so, after much thought and deliberation, we decided to plant a kousa dogwood with a white flower. And then we found this guy, that fit the bill, and had variegated leaves to boot! Majorly cool.
I now have a large new garden area to landscape (major bummer yeah?). But, I think I will just look at it and ponder the possibilites this year....
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