I spent Sunday morning cutting things back and cleaning out flower beds. I filled the entire composting bin with heavy, rotting vegetation, mostly the tops of invasive species like alliums and bluebells. They will return-- it's impossible to dig them out completely without destroying everything else planted under there.
Anyway, who has motivation, time and energy to rip out beautiful, decades old flower beds? I'll leave that to the next homesteader, who will probably have a bulldozer. We have a dinky old house, but the large urban lot is "underutilized" as the developers would say.
So things are tidy now and I like that open look. The lilies have some breathing room for the best flower show of the summer. June is whipping by much too fast as usual.
We haven't had this many plums on the tree for years. Thousands. The tree is along the sidewalk, and the last time this happened it caused a neighborhood feeding frenzy, with people climbing the fence to get at them. One guy even brought a stepladder and bucket without bothering to ask permission. We're getting new expensive fencing built soon, so hopefully no repeat of that. Life in the big city.
It's another beautiful morning, with rain-washed blue skies and full-on sunshine until about 9:30 tonight.
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