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| The flowering dogwood cornus florida is Virginia's state tree, and they are VERY popular. Ours is a 'Cherokee Princess' variety. This is after planting but before mulching. Trees are HEAVY! It was all I could do to drag this one into its hole. |
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| This is our flowering cherry, the 'Yoshino' variety Prunus x yedoensis, just planted before mulching. |
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| This is cherry again, with it's blossoms. Not bad for the first year right after transplanting. |
  
| This is the felled giant tree stump we had out our back window. It was 4 feet diameter and 10 feet tall. |
      
| The azaleas took us by surprise. They are really stunning. |
| Our back neighbor has some too. Maybe I should just finish tearing down the fence and not rebuild the new one. |
| This is the pile of wood chips from the stump grinding. |
| The hostas, a lavender azalea? about to bloom, and some mystery plant that looks like a magnolia. The hostas grew from nothing to monsters in a span of about 3 weeks. |