Late fall gardening

Two weeks ago May and I decided to do a little late fall gardening in our back yard. We swung by Swanson's nursery and picked up a winter berry bush, 3 kale / cabbage plants and two Japanese maple trees.

It took awhile to dig the holes because our yard was at some point a dumping ground for gravel and small rocks.

In the end we were pleased with the results... even if some of our neighbors were not. Although it will take 10-12 years for the Japanese maple trees in the side yard to grow and we plan to trim them into an espalide, our neighbor with the 4 story box home was deeply concerned about his ability to put a ladder in our side yard to paint his home. Fair enough, but we wouldn't have put any plants in the side yard if the entire underneath side of their porch wasn't littered in trash.