Panorama taken from the middle of the side patio. I don't think the sky is really this blue; it must be an IOS thing.
It looks quite different from earlier photos of this area since we took out the grass pathways. It was pretty when it was green, but labor intensive to keep looking nice. I'd rather put my labor into things other than grass with nice colors, smells, and tastes. The apricot tree is conspicuously absent. We replaced it with a "fruit cocktail tree", mostly because we got tired of running around to nurseries looking for a replacement apricot tree. The new tree has peach, nectarine, apricot, and plum grafts. I've not been impressed with what I've heard about fruit cocktail trees; they're more of a novelty than anything else and if they aren't pruned rather aggressively one kind of fruit will take over. But it was this or wait another year, and on this one the apricot branch was the thickest, so we'd be just fine with it taking over. Mike did some work on the raised bed that will hopefully improve the drainage situation and give it a fighting chance.
Panarama taken of the pool side of the yard. I don't think the pool is quite that green, either.
Since last year, we added another pygmy palm in the space where the sour orange tree was behind the waterfall, and replaced a bare-root peach tree that didn't make it through the summer. We're being treated to an early display of rose blooms this year. We usually cut them back in January and don't see roses until Easter, but they are in their prime now.
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