I'm working on it.

 Along the back of the back, by the slope.  Some nice things and some not as enjoyable things.  In the summer heat, you can walk along the back and feel a little cooler.  Thanks to the pretty and ridiculously messy, constantly dropping pepper tree that hangs over our property.  

And at the very corner, an oversized Viburnum.  When I get to the corner, I always think "yuck".  *Not to say Viburnum is bad, just the way I've let it get out of control with lots of up high growth and dead interior. 

Time for a change.

Getting in there, ew it was stinky?  Like an old wet dog's bathroom.

I was texting Ivan at this point, he offered to get the stump out.  He's always enthusiastic for a takedown.  Knowing he could whip this out in 1-2 minutes, compared to my working on it for an hour - I left it for him to take care of over Easter weekend. I did get 12' of viburnum chopped and cleaned up afterall.

Like the incomplete paint job? Ha ha, I'll have to fix that. 

Yeah, he had it out of the ground lickety split, before I could even get back with my camera.  And, as we do - we decided to take out another big thing.  *I planted this, but have no idea what it was blue-ish pine? of some sort.  It did it's job filling in, thank you tree. 

Ivan making tree removal look easy. 

Exciting when you can wobble it back & forth. 

It rained most of the weekend, so I didn't do much outside.  I'm back to clean-up duty.  All that detritus is from the pepper tree. 

I moved that poor agave. 

Getting there.  I'll likely find plenty of overcrowded things here and there in my garden to put in this part of the slope. 

The soil is very dry and dusty in parts, I'll probably need to amend it a little. 

And to end on a bright note, we've got some gorgeous blooms happening! Echinopsis 'Flying Saucer'  this smaller guy was the first to open. 

And many more to come!

I hope your Spring is off to a great start!