Another day, and this one mostly digging holes in mud and planting stuff.

Jane's beautiful little espaliered apple tree is in: it looks like one of Tolkien's elvish trees, three branches on a side, and centered on the back (barn red) fence. It has a Gravenstein graft, a Fuji, a Gala, Yellow Delicious, Yellow Transparent, and a Red Macintosh. And it's going to be a gorgeous backdrop, beyond a freestanding arch with clematis, at the back of what will someday be a little rill of water leading down to a secondary miniature pond.

We got some fancy juniper for that major ...