I got out there Sunday afternoon and cleaned up the front yard. "Cleaned up" means I did the raking I never did in November. Typically, the silver maple leaves are very brittle and break down on their own, but this year without any snow everything stayed intact. I raked in the actual garden, and chopped down the standing stems (asters and grasses) to lower the overall profile. I just piled all the leaves under the Norway spruce on the other side of the walk.
I did some pruning on the redbud and the Carolina silverbells. I need a ladder to prune the ash and red oak and hickories, but it's coming on hard on the season when I need to get moving on them.
It's all better than nothing.
