New roses this year. Here we have David Austin's "Mary Rose" English shrub roses.
The lavender hedge is maturing nicely.
Starry Night petunias
A lovely "Shirley Temple" peony.
Our bird feeding station.
This hydrangea is called "Curly Wurly".
Our fire pit
This shrub rose is named "Winchester Cathedral ".
"Ebb Tide" English rose.
Purple perennials.
Now for the unpleasant part -
Our beautiful Norway spruce tree that canopied the cottage...
...fell ill and had to be taken down.
I cried that entire day, to be honest.
Hard to see, but there's a guy in the tree cutting limbs.
Just a bit of the trunk peeking over the roof.
Some of the bits and pieces.
Nothing left but the stump.
Proof that it was TRYING to live. New growth, but not enough.
I planted a willow tree nearby, in hopes for a new canopy in a few years.
