P was the one on fahr this past weekend, but I did pretty well myself. On Saturday morning, I finally broke down and started the trench for the fence flowerbed border. The honeysuckle looks so pretty in early morning sun. This is all I got done; cutting the 45s on the pieces took a fair […]
These are from the day before yesterday, but I didn’t get them posted. This is a volunteer; it looks like a Grey Stick or a Cliffie Bush. After work yesterday, I potted some Dacotah switchgrass, and one small pot of Northern Sea Oats that will just sit there, doing nothing. When I got home today, […]
My accomplishments after work yesterday were few, but I still have photos. A little Zelus friend in the Jerusalem artichoke. First Husker Red blooms. Borage, not fucking around. Pink penstemon. Purple on the other side. Pink-urple balm of bees. Purple penstemon in Sarah-Flah’s Giant No-Mow bed.
I worked hard all weekend, and I do have a lot of photos, but the vast majority are not of what I did…if that makes any sense. One of the new Echinacea paradoxa has a little flower bud on it. Bad light, bad photo, but considering how little time it’s been in its location, I’ll […]
C gave me this iris last year (I think), but it didn’t bloom because it was newly planted. This year it bloomed, but it looks more like a native blue flag than a Japanese to me. I’d prefer the blue flag, of course, but whatever iris it is, it’s certainly a pretty one!
My big accomplishment yesterday after work was putting down more soil under one shepherd’s hook, and putting some mulch out front. This beautiful little girl had a bigger accomplishment: she eclosed! There’s one chrysalis left, but it looks very dark, and I don’t think it’s inhabitant made it. Four healthy out of six isn’t too […]
After work yesterday, I finally saw a MLB that I could swear was one. AN adult male, drinking like a little camel on the feeder out front. I couldn’t get a picture because I didn’t want to scare him, but I saw him, and that’s good enough! Not a MLB, but pretty. Salvia…’May Night’?
It rained most of the weekend; so much that the yard was soup, and it was very muddy when I finally broke down and cleaned the goddamned hairy bittercress out of the cosmos bed. When I got it cleared out, I discovered that I had one seedling. One. I had saved some seeds, but not […]
I took the afternoon off in hopes of getting the bed ready for the Flava honeysuckle. I knew it was going to rain, but decided it was worth a shot. I went to Buchheit for suet and fill dirt, then came home, grabbed a cereal bar by way of lunch, and got started. I forgot […]
I had to get sunflower seed at lunch, and I was going to get a couple of hanging pots to put out front. ‘Toonyas was my plan, but then, I saw these Calibrachoa, and had to have them! I had them in the office, and when B came in, he said, “It looks like spring […]