From yesterday, since I was too tired to post about it after having done it… The Rose of Sharon bushes are all…alive! Both Grey Sticks and the Cliffie bush. Yaaayyy! They’re even a little early, I think. Remains to be seen whether they’ll get enough sun where I’ve put them (probably not, but not moving […]

Still haven’t got joe-pye and friends or zinnia and Mexican sunflower or sunflowers in, but I have butterfly food in, and I dug holes for yellow honeysuckle. Better than nothing, I guess, and it does kind of feel like I had a weekend. Putting in seeds. Carrot, dill, cabbage, parsley and rosemary. Also sugar baby […]

P. found her on the patio on his way in from the garage. She’s beautiful! (Also gravid. Also, I need a manicure that’s not going to happen.)

I didn’t feel like digging a flowerbed, but I stayed busy! I cleaned debris (AKA free mulch) from my little water garden, then cleared the grass out a few inches around it, put edging in, then mulch, and put the rocks back. I planted the persimmon and pawpaw trees, but I think I killed them […]

They both made it, too! I was on the bush honeysuckle warpath yesterday after work, so I forgot to take pictures, but both of my trumpet creeper vines survived! They both have tiny buds, but I’m going to wait and see how far up they’ll get buds before I go chopping them back. I’ll add […]

They’ll have to be cut back to the ground, but all three butterfly bushes survived the move and the winter! In spite of the big-ass deer tracks right in the middle… …we have cosmos sprouts! Man, these flowers do not fuck around; I planted them last Saturday, so…four days, two of which were cold and […]

After I’d finished covering everything with plastic, I remembered the little bed of bachelor’s buttons and dwarf red coreopsis I’d planted around the light pole. Good thing I did; they didn’t waste any time. Six days!

It’s going to be below freezing tonight and tomorrow night. Yes, I was too hot in shorts and a T-shirt yesterday. Maybe my newly planted seeds would be okay, but maybe not, so I covered the ones that didn’t have row cover on already. I had exactly  enough plastic to cover what needed covering. Purely […]

The castor beans want out! I actually noticed them yesterday; I glanced at the disturbed soil surface and thought, “Wait…Miffy doesn’t bother plant pots,” so I went to look. They’re not all out of the ground yet, and still nothing from the Bird of Paradise, but apparently they liked the table in the north window […]

In spite of the fact that I forgot about laundry on Friday (seriously–forgot!) and have two shirts left from being exhausted and crippled last week, I still planted the main flowerbed! It just needed to be raked, seeded, little compost thrown on and cat poop-proofed, so I’m not horribly far behind, and it’s done! Looks […]