Someone had posted on our school’s listserv that they had a Euonymus to give away. (Thank you!! =) Turns out it was in a GIANT pot and composed of many stems that had been stuck in the dirt over time. My Resident Expert and I were thrilled to have wallowed that puppy out of the pot, into another, through the yard, and up up up on the truck. *Phew!*

I finally ripped out the last of the Barberry (Berberis thunbergii) hedge that had surrounded much of our property when we move in, and fill in with the Euonymus, which I often use for greens in bouquets.