I bet the ric rac adds such a neat texture to the plantings around the pond! Glad it's thriving. :-)
Aspenhill, I was trying to resist that beautyberry, but when I saw just now that nobody else had dibsed it yet, well, my fingers just clicked that treasurebox icon... Thank you! Is that one of the ones we found together? I planted my two in the treeline the year that the groundhogs or bunnies? ate all my new little shrubs to the ground. Last fall, we put cages around all the young shrubs & trees to protect them... I'll make sure to protect this one that way!