"Much better! We will have you strong and well soon.

You should have come in time for a dose of sassafras.

Your hedge is filled with that, because of its peculiar leaves and odour.

I put in dogwood for the white display around the little green bloom, lots of alder for bloom and berries, haws for blossoms and fruit for the squirrels, wild crab apples for the exquisite bloom and perfume, button bush for the buttons, a few pokeberry plants for the colour, and I tried some mallows, but I doubt if it's wet enough for them.

I set pecks of vine roots, that are coming nicely, and ferns along the front edge.