My yard has pretty well established perennials by now, so I just had to do some weeding and pruning to try to keep things under control. The big thrill this year is that the 3 hazelnut bushes that I planted about 11 years ago suddenly decided to bear fruit this year!! My neighbors thought I was nuts to try to grow nuts at this altitude in Montana. I had found a catalog from a company in up-state New York 11 years ago that sold bare-root hardy nut trees, and I planted and coddled (to some degree) these bushes. No one thought they would live through the winters let alone bear fruit. Well, I was amazed... I discovered them after they were quite well formed in the clustes of green pods. That's my big gardening success of the year this season... and it actually was an effort from 11 years ago, just having to keep the neighbors from driving over them or the school kids from crushing them when they walk through my yard. Last year my apricot tree was loaded with fruit courtesy of el nino. This year, hazelnuts.