First, the present Skanny left on the roof of HK this morning. A lovely dead mole. It was raining when I left, and I figured the mole would roll/blow/rinse off when I got out on the one-way in the rain (which turned heavy). This was on the back window when I got home. P. laughed. […]
I reseeded the catnip on the south side of the house; the evening primrose did fine, but catnip–Miffy’s catnip–only sprouted a few. No picture; it looks like dirt. They sent some freebie summer savoury with the catnip, so I threw that in with my three whole rosemary plants. I moved the one that was off […]
I did MLB feeders after work today, and they needed bleaching, which took longer. Otherwise, I turned the compost pile and added some stuff, and found a couple of little friends. Cabbage White ‘pillar, with potential predator in the form of a larval ladybird (though the ‘pillar might be too big to eat now). Sharpshooter, […]
I worked on it for a few hours, but it was so fucking hot in the sun, and the humidity meant sweating did more to blind me than it did to cool me, and I was bent over, chopping roots, using muscles that haven’t been used much in years. That said, I did make progress! […]
First, the easy part (paid B. to do it). Finally have post holes for Tornado Honeysuckle’s trellis, and the big bird feeder. I’m pretty sure he almost broke through to China, but frost won’t be heaving them anywhere! I’ll get the posts this week, probably, and we’ll do the concrete next weekend. Next, the bit […]
Funny little peeping-croaks coming from the water garden. One. Two. Charlie also discovered toads…and how bad they taste. I took one from him, but then he went after another, and when I heard his pathetic howls, I knew he’d tried to bite it. I think the toad lived, but I’ll bet Charlie wished he […]
It rained hard last night, but that was nothing compared to the windy deluge we got at 1530h today. When someone said it was hailing, I thought, “My garden is fucked,” and expected to come home to flat, torn up plants. Nope. Just the purple tansy Onje flattens when he sleeps in them (I hate […]
I thought I’d ordered six, but I was sweating so profusely when I was planting that it didn’t occur to me tgat I’d actually ordered two lots of six until I looked in my eBay history. Only a couple have even signs of leaves, but I’m hopeful. I was going to plant them over by […]
Zinnia that we planted on Monday is up! Along the fence line: In the stead of stupid, lazy branching sunflowers: Cardinal climber along the fence line, too! No news yet from runner bean or phlox, but I’m hopeful. First cosmos of 2014 will be a deep pink ‘Sensation’. Persimmon coming along. The other one still […]
I’m not 100% certain, but I think one of my poor, abused pawpaw trees might still be alive! So far, so good for pipevine. Ninebark is looking good, if somewhat maple-y. Still small, but more green than when I planted it!