The pink knockout rose is blooming. This knockout is a very pretty, clear pink.
The hubrichtii amsonia is blooming now too. The other amsonias are not quite open.
Right now the 'Crimson Queen' Japanese maple is a deep mahogany, but it will get browner with warmer weather. The same thing with 'Bloodgood' in back.
I wandered around today and pruned things. I controlled the redtwig dogwoods a little and limbed up the stewartia, the Dawn viburnum, and the Bloodgood maple. Nothing very severe, just a little clean up of lower branches, but it improves things.
I took branches off of the Crimson Queen maple after I took the picture above, just to thin it out. When the leaves are down next winter I will need to go back and recut the branches that I chopped off, many were just cut at the midpoint since I could not see what I was doing.
