Just look at this huge and handsome character!   It arrived last night, drawn to the greenhouse lights.

In other news, the Nanking Cherry (Prunus tomentosa) and Beach Plum (Prunus maratima) trees arrived yesterday from Raintree Nursery (purveyors of rare and unusual fruits and vegetables).  It’s raining and raining around here, and I haven’t time to plant the new specimens until the weekend, so I heeled them in out in the garden, and will plant one each in the mini orchard (where the ducks lived before they were eaten by the bears), with the rest destined for the food forest.  From what I’ve read, in size and form these trees fall somewhere between the small tree layer and the shrub layer, and so I think they’ll fit in nicely.