Bugs Is Back

We were a woman down on Saturday but the planting continued apace in sunny but blustery conditions at NC. Fagus slyvatica 'Heterophylla, the common beech, Prunus Ttaihaku' the great white cherry, Prunus 'Kursor' with pink blossom, Labernum x watereri 'Vossii', Cornus mas 'Jelico' and finally seventy canes of raspberry Tulameen, phew! The highlight of the day had to be Giles' encounter with the rabbit though, despite us all traipsing noisily through the garden since early morning we hadn't seen hide nor hare of it until it leaped up right in front of his nose and made a quick getaway straight through his legs to the sanctuary of the yew hedge. We must have walked past him fifty times, but sly old Brer kept his head down, of course we all fell about laughing at the expression on Giles' face, I'm getting rather fond of old Bugs but I feel he may be on borrowed time now. Some pictures today of the small beauties that really stand out at this time of the year when the earth is largely barren.
"The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed"
Nicholas Chamfort