March is a good time to work on the landscape plan for your home for those who live in the east, especially as it involves the views from the windows. I have my desk right in front of an up stairs window where I can see the whole back half of the yard. As I write this I have already visualized two or three Hicks yews to go in the place where my fireplace wood is stacked. Normally I won’t have that much wood. And I feel the need of a little more evergreen in back of the bird bath on the one old stump to give it just a little better winter setting.

At this time of year one especially enjoys evergreen vines growing up the trunks of trees, whether they be English ivy with its many varieties or one of the many variations of the evergreen wintercreeper – Euonymus fortunei. They don’t harm the tree, but they do give a lot of enjoyment to us and quite a bit of winter shelter to an occasional bird.

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