Early Spring

Now that the New Dawn climbing rose that covered the front porch has well and truly been killed by Rose Rosette disease I took down its pergola. That pergola had defined the front of the house for the past fifteen years, and the porch feels naked without it.

But it was time. The pergola had some rot and I am rehabbing the porch itself, so I took it all down. I have a Major Wheeler nativar honeysuckle growing on the porch railing now, and the all-grown-up camellias to the side, and the young cherry in front. We’ll see how all that comes together.

Lots of little things began to bloom this week:

And not a bloom, but another sort of garden grace – on a misty morning the brush that I left in the beds doing my chop-and-drop was filled with little spiderwebs. I don’t know who is home in them, but I welcome the company.