Well, I still have the two dogwood trees, but I finally have all of the perennials in the ground! I still have Virginia snakeroot coming, but its bed is nearly ready (and I have CATERPILLARS–the eggs weren’t all eaten!!!), and I still might get some NE aster, but not much. Anyway, today, I planted five […]
It rained from the time I got home on Friday, all through Saturday (off and on), so I couldn’t plant anything, but I didn’t waste my time! Friday after work, I was tired, but I finally repotted my poor, suffering dieffenbachia Camille. Pot isn’t much larger, but hopefully enough that it will make those big, […]
I’ve worked in the garden for I don’t know how long, never really taking a day off. Every spare minute, I’ve been out there, even when it was really too wet, and I needed a break. I’d planned to plant black-eyed susan and butterfly weed when I got home, but I had to do laundry, […]
I took half a vacation day yesterday; I went to Buchheit at lunch to get the compost I bought and forgot in the shuffle of topsoil, garden soil, mulch and plants. I got a couple more black-eyed susan for Sarah-Flah’s garden, and noticed their trees were 35% off, and they still had red dogwood. C […]
I didn’t get much done, but I did plant the 8 Lobelia cardinalis plants that arrived yesterday, and finally got the two grape agastache in the ground. I’m giving fancy agastache one more chance; if the ones I got this year don’t live, then I won’t buy any more; I’ll stick with the native stuff. […]
I was supposed to be doing laundry, which I did eventually, but… Planted Autumn Colors rudbeckia and Route 66 coreopsis. Also planted morning glory and Chilean glory vine, and the last of the evening scented stock. Moved the Carolina allspice to fill in the “peekaboo spot” by the woods. Hope it grows like mad and […]
Not yet, but eventually. I’m posting this Monday morning because it’s 0547h, raining, and I’ll spend my last holly-day doing Thursday’s laundry as well as Sunday’s. Yay? Anyway, I made more progress, so that’s something. About half of the edging is packed in, and the rest is at least trenched out. Thankfully, I keep scraps […]
Not nearly as much as I’d wanted, and I was too tired to write last night, but some progress is better than none. I got the bee balms planted: Fire Marshall in back, Raspberry Wine in front. It’s kind of slow going, mostly because I’m not sure how I want to do this. I’m still […]
…and it’s still not done. I got all three weigelas in, and ten Radio Red salvia, and two baptisia. PL left quite a bit of gravel, and I really hope that I dug wide enough and deep enough to give everything enough of both good soil and drainage. I dunno. I also moved what was […]
Unimpressive, but it’s the first, so I’ll take it! I went to Buchheit after work to buy yet more mulch (12 bags) because the sale is over on Monday. I also got potting soil for the new pots I got at the dollah sto’, and some annual salvia to put in a hanging pot for […]