I had a row of overgrown junipers removed from the north side of my house this week. These prickly shrubs were so huge they grew from the side of my house to the property line, with no room left to walk along that side of the house. They needed to be removed so I could reach the house to paint it and reclaim that part of the yard. I kept one juniper there next to the deck steps, a nice mature Japanese bonsai shape. Around it I put Siberian iris and a dry creek bed arrangement of river rock, repeating what is by my pond.

Still planting to do, and more pruning.