100 Daffodil bulbs

Today saw the rest of the daffodils from Veseys planted. Following the advice of John Holden of www.landdesigns.com, I planted these in clumps of 2-3 daffodils per hole and spaced them like a checkerboard with more bulbs towards the front of the area. This is supposed to result in the daffodils looking as if they naturalized this way.

So many tree roots! I dug up a small square of sod, turned it over and then dug deeper individual holes with a trowel, then dropped the bulbs in, covered with loose soil and then put the sod back, stepping on it to make it go back into place. The result is that you can't see where anything was planted and these should come up next spring in a scattering over this part of the lawn. There are 100 daffodils in all in this space. You could probably plant twice that number and it still would not be crowded. But I think I have done enough digging for a while.

 This is a spruce and maple that grow side by side right beside the driveway. Someone left Christmas lights in this spruce and I should plug them in to see if they are still working. The grandkids would like that.

I am so enthralled with this piece of country property. I have always wanted to live in the country, on a farm preferably, but circumstances dictated otherwise. It is wonderful to have a small piece of land in a small town, so that Nick and I are not without the things we need at this stage of our life (like doctors, grocery stores, banks and wine stores).

Today began chilly but the afternoon was a lovely day for working outside. It was very breezy and bright with sunshine. The sun on the turning leaves is just gorgeous. My camera simply doesn't capture the luminous type of light that we had today.

A perfect sky, with only a few scudding clouds. This is a large maple in the front yard, behind it is an oak. In front is a mountain ash that doesn't look well. I am having trouble convincing Nick that it needs to be cut down, he is a tree-hugger. But a diseased tree is not something you want in your yard.
Perhaps it will simply disappear one day when he isn't looking and he won't even notice. He is quite attached to this tree because it shows the holes made by piliated woodpeckers. However those holes also look the ones made by yellow-belly sapsuckers which destroy trees by taking out their sap, as their name implies. There are plenty more trees for the woodpeckers.