After strong winds on Monday, this morning I found two large branches on the ground beneath the zelkova in our back yard. I cut them into smaller pieces, added a dead limb from the cherry tree at the back of the property, and put all of them into a large plastic tote. Then I loaded the tote with the brush that had accumulated since the last trip to the township yard waste facility, loaded the car with the tote, and took the lot to the township.
Dumping out the tote, my eye was caught by a small red patch, and I was compelled to take a snapshot. I believe it's verbena, and rather than try to salvage the plant that another person dumped, I took some notes for next spring. This would look good on the area where the red maple used to be, provided there's enough sunlight, and that's no sure thing thanks to the tall trees next door that block the sun for a good part of the day.
The same thing goes for the bare area at the back of the property, plus it tends to be overly dry. Now, there's some bare ground on the south side of the shed, and that gets much more sun from morning until late afternoon, but I need to make sure there's some bare loose dirt left for the rabbits who live under that shed to roll around in. (And not incidentally, to make sure that rabbits don't consider verbena to be a tasty treat, the way they did the rose bush and the morning glories I planted earlier this summer.)
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