Garden Holly Grove 2020, February
February 2020 Saturday 1 February At least the sun is out and it is not so dreary. I was walking Tattie yesterday and found in the northwest corner of the yard several patches of narcissus and lycoris and I have decided to liberate them from the shrubby border back into the lawn so today I am cutting away at the bushes of privet, old limbs and lots of grape vines. I have left this growth of privet near the fence with Jareau’s so as not to have to look at what might come there. At present Joe runs cattle there and everything looks except the crappy old house. It is unlivable but the old man is in a nursing home and I doubt the property will be sold until he dies. Who will get it then? The walk with Tattie also led me past the beginning to bloom magnolia soulangeana. Pretty early. I am also seeing some pear blooms. We have had several south Indian dishes this week with my curry leaves, Murraya Koenigii, Kadi Patta or sweet neem. I got my plant from ...