Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Falland Cleaning up Your Garden...What are YOU doing??, 1 by claypa

claypa wrote:
I had fun visiting sallyg this weekend on my way to Virginia. Her dog is really nice, too. I think she wanted to come with me, because she hopped right in the car! (Addie, not sallyg). I can't imagine why though.
I'm planting winterberries in front of my little blue spruce in the back yard, where the maple used to be. I'm digging the stump out myself, which is going s l o w ly but surely. I got some pruning blades for the sawzall to cut the roots. It would have been $150 or so to get the stump ground out, but I want it gone entirely. It's great not having a thirty foot tall and wide Norway maple dominating the small back yard. And no raking!!!

The idea is to have nice winter color out the back door, kind of like the red of the maple in front of that spruce of yours, Holly. And I love the topiary and the cypress pics.

Here's a fuzzy picture of a blueberry I saw in the woods: