Boring but necessary tasks

Today's gardening efforts were primarily devoted to getting weeds out of the raised bed containing rose bushes and pruning the thevetia hedge which separates the pool area of the yard from the garden area. Not very exciting, but necessary. It's not really the right time to prune, but the hedge had gotten so tall that it was blocking light and growth from the lime and tangerine trees we planted a few years ago. The tangerine tree is about four feet high, the lime tree about six feet high, and the thevetias were about 10 feet high.