Or rather, it DIED. Hallelujah!

I’ve hated this bush ever since we moved in, hated it, always wanted it gone. Sometime between the end of last summer and this spring, it finally died… and the villagers rejoiced.

Here it is sometime in the winter of 2005:

Dead bush :|

Can you see why I hated it? There were times it would get all big and green and just in the way and it had these gross seed pod things. So, yes, when it died, I was very happy.

Last week, I started ripping it out. I was so proud, I got it all out but the stump and it looked like this:

Bush Removal

Of course, now the brush pile is gone, the grass has been cut (lol), and the stump is gone, too, Steve took care of that yesterday.

So, now the question is, what to put there? I really want something decorative, perferrably a tree, but I’ll take another bush, too. Anything that has either lots of pretty flowers or colored leaves.

Honeybee on my lilacs I’d love to have another lilac bush. In fact, one of my life goals (haha) is to have one of each color. So far, I have the darker purple with white outline but I also know of traditional purple, yellow, white, and crimson red. There might be more. But we don’t have room for all of that. And lilacs are known to tear up water lines and such when they get too big, and this would actually be very close to the water line, so maybe that’s not a good idea.

I’d also love to have a fruit tree or two but by the time one would start bearing fruit we would (hopefully) be moved out of here.

So, suggestions? :)