...W.I.P. Wednesday...Outside...

...remember back a little over a year ago...when we planted this little guy...

...and we worried and fretted about him through the wind storms and snow storms... ...well he is growing into a nice healthy little dogwood...

...but his mulch was getting overgrown...(it's the end of August and everything is getting overgrown)...

...and he just needed a little bit of sprucing up...

...so we put a little ring around his trunk...we laughed as we had to use a little bit of geometry to figure out the radius of our circle given our circumference of 9 feet (we had three 3 foot pieces of edging)...Scout luckily remembered the formula...(given that C = 2πR...R would equal R=C/π/2)...and you all know of my love for Pi... ...this photo is from when we planted the little tree...and I'm including it here mainly to show the unsightly knob in our front yard...now really...if you have to have one of these on your property...surely it could be situated in a less conspicuous place...

...so...we're trying to camouflage it a little bit with an ornamental grass...these knobs 'belong to' the power company...and they should still be able to get to the knob and open it if they need to for some reason...but our neighbor has lived here for 19 years and she said that no one has ever needed access to her knob...

...anywhoo...it's Panicum virgatum ‘Shenandoah’...and we hope it thrives and covers up our knob...

...How is your yard faring this late summer/early fall?...

~Have a lovely day!