November Garden Clean Up

I spent yesterday afternoon working in my garden.

Birch 'Crimson Frost'

Not a monumental revelation, I suppose, except that it was November 4.

I mowed sugar maple leaves and they literally disappeared uncovering the deep lush green lawn beneath. I mowed my perennial bed, cutting in and around shrubs. I mowed the strawberry bed. I mowed the daylilies that have much too much evergreen daylily in their genetic make-up. I mowed the hosta bed under the huge white pine which is nearly done dropping its golden needles, at least for now.

I dug out the treacherously thorny blackberry with a root ball of the dimensions of my forearm. I doubt I "got it all". It is like a cancer invading the kinder, gentler raspberries.

I removed stems and stalks. Leaves continue to fall. I see the structural bones of my garden formed by plants.