Early June and all is pretty well in the yard. We've got 11 tomato plants this year on the top deck. All are heirloom grape and cherry style. We've got several alpine strawberry plants that are averaging about one berry a week...not much to cheer about so far, but maybe it will get better. We planted five pencil hollies along the fence. We bought the plants on sale at Miller's Nursery in the Laurel Highlands. They look a little rough and scraggly right now, but hopefully they will shape up as they grow. They're supposed to get up to 10 feet high and 3 feet in diameter. Our wild roses in the lower yard are starting to bloom nicely, but there is an impending battle down there between them and the encroaching Morning Glories. We have quite a few ferns that made it back from last year, as well as some nice flowering groundcover around the pond, some really pretty water irises in the bog garden, and some nice annuals that Jen planted in the iron planters above the pond.
