Light and air

The daffodils in the "meadow" by the apple trees are doing very well this year. As you look up towards them,  they are seen against the stone wall that backs the new garden behind them. That's a very good example a simple picture working  well.  And an example of a nice effect come about purely as a side-effect.

Before we took down the beech tree and the old tin hut, and the ash in the hedge that had grown past control, that area was a shady jumble of nothing much, and the daffs were going backwards.

Pruning the Charles Ross apple tree

With that area opened up to vision, we've been motivated to have fewer weeds and more meadow plants. I am hoping the camassias I planted in the winter will come up strongly. Or will the rabbits have them....