A few more things

More to love in the new neighborhood (particularly though not exclusively in the arboretum across the street)

• half a dozen blooming fringetrees
• a yellowwood ready to bloom
• a 70-foot tulip tree 
• an enormous bottlebrush buckeye 
• the scent of lilacs
• mature blackhaw viburnums just finishing bloom
• two lindens within two blocks of the house--I no longer need to be in Bulgaria to enjoy that intoxicating scent
• the fact that so many of the houses in town seem to be inhabited by gardeners--flowers everywhere.

And something I don't love: the plethora of boxwood (I originally typed "boxweed"). Why anyone would plant a shrub that
a) requires frequent pruning and
b) smells like cat urine
is beyond me. And there is a hedge of them just outside the office window.

Sigh.