Freshly showered, in my lounge with tunes via WiFi and Bluetooth,  a Chi Chi’s Skinny Margarita and new Riders sandals that probably won’t be white for long, paid for with Amazon points. Waiting for the rain that kept us from doing concrete, but needed by my flowers, so it’s okay. It’s all good. Also found […]

This has nothing to do with the title, but it is Parview’s first wheel bug! I got some edging blocks and made a non-plastic flags border for the Virginia snakeroot. I’d rather natural stone, but these aren’t bad, and they weren’t expensive, but they do allow me to mulch my little green guys. I also […]

I’m off for four days and I have no dirt to dig, haul or mix. No seeds to plant, no plants to get in the ground. Weeds to pull, and we’re going to try to get the trellis done, but I feel like a lady of leisure! In the meantime… Rosemallow leafing out nicely. 544’s […]

My second pawpaw is alive! Just a few leaves,  but alive. That’s all four of the trees I practically killed.

This isn’t the “Oh god, no,” but it is kind of cool. P left it on the Bistro table for me; he found it somewhere. I think it’s amusing. I’d been aware on some level that Osage Orange fruit were hairy when they were small, but never really thought much about it. I’m underwhelmed by […]

P came outside in the morning as I was having coffee on the patio, and he had my binoculars. He told me where to look, and at first, I thought I was seeing a dead groundhog. Dunno why I thought “dead”, but I did. Nope, not a groundhog, and very much alive! Every time I’d […]

I put some more coneflower seedlings in the perennial bed, and added a few more bags of mulch (went to Walmart after work and got 8 bags). Only one more plant to go in there, but since it still looks pretty much the same, I didn’t take a picture. I did, however, take a picture […]

As much as I didn’t want the extra work, I installed edging around the big perennials bed. P bought it for me; he’s not much of a gardening kind of guy, but very supportive of my projects in other ways. Planted some coneflowers from C.’s seeds in the bed around the pipevine. I’ll add a […]

Finally! I’ve been waiting forever for the Monarda to bloom, and not only did I get a bloom, I got a teeny-tiny little manti-dude friend! Given the dark manti-knees, I’ll hazard a guess it’s a Carolina, and given the fact that there was a Carolina ootheca on the Tornado Honeysuckle when we brought it from […]

I had plants waiting for me when I got home, but the only ones I was ready for were the three blazing star I’d got to go with the two I already had. I thought I’d ordered the same kind as the first time, but I didn’t; these are a slightly different cultivar. Will butterflies […]