We have had one hell of a wet Spring here in Beautiful Dunwoody. It doesn’t bother me a bit since I just had a Japanese Maple planted in my front yard. Those boogers are expensive! But they look nice and since it was just planted two weeks ago, I welcome the rain so I don’t have to water it a few times a week. It’s all leafed out now and looks beautiful. It’s also gonna get the HOA management company off my ass.
I failed an inspection in December. The inspector gigged me for weeds and improper edging allowing grass to creep in. I had just weeded and mulched all of my beds and didn’t know what the problem was. I called the management company and the lady I talked to said it was because I didn’t have anything growing in it. I had a maple tree cut down a few years ago ’cause it provided too much shade and the Bermuda grass doesn’t like shade. I asked her why she knew what the problem was and I didn’t? She really didn’t have a good answer but told me not to worry but to plant sumpin’ in the Spring. I was always planning on putting in a Japanese Maple and had had the stump ground and was waiting for the rest to rot out. So it’s in and has welcomed the rain.
On the downside, my thrift on the Great Berm of Dunwoody, didn’t bloom very long. It usually blooms a lot longer. I’ve got a beautiful ornamental cherry in the backyard that only blooms for a few days and this year the days were even fewer. It’s a real shame because it is really beautiful when it is in full bloom. A few years back, when my Mimosa tree died, the guy who took it down offered to take down the cherry tree as well. He said it had a fungus and was dying. I told him it was just restin’. Beautiful plumage the Norwegian blue ornamental cherry. It wasn’t dead. It was pining for the fjords. Sure enough, a year later parts of it bloomed and grew leaves. The dead parts I was able to snap off with my hands. To look at it now, you would never know how close it came to death.