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 […]
S called it “blackberry winter”; that’s the cold snap that occurs about the time blackberries are flowering. I just call it shite weather. Anyway, I have flowers, at least, and it’s supposed to be sunny and 65 tomorrow. I’ll take it. First blue bachelor’s button, not quite open yet. First light blue is! Tornado Honeysuckle […]
I can make Sarah Jane’s garden now. PL came and removed the gravel, then put in topsoil. They levelled it, but kind of didn’t notice the little Nanho Blue butterfly bush. They ran over it with the skid steer, and then buried it. Took me a few minutes to find its remains; there’s nothing left […]
I got one. About three more to go. Fuck grackles; the only bird I like less is a starling. They need to just die. Borage blooms imminent. Sweet Tea still taking its sweet time. God, BLOOM already! Free pipevine. A little ratty, and rather small, but alive. It’s been hiding under the edge of creeping […]
Not much this past weekend; it was rainy, and I had half a headache on Saturday, at least most of it, but I did get a few plants in the ground, and we mowed the lawn. The last two long-suffering Mesa Yellow gaillardia. Penstemon, but I forget which one. I’ll check later. EDIT: Pike’s Peak […]
She was very definitely a girl, and she left at least four (didn’t look too hard) little presents on the snakeroot. She checked out every plant in the Bistro, even the pipevine, but she deposited eggs only on the snakeroot. She looked very worn, but she was very welcome! Not much in flower news, but […]
Fucking FINALLY! It’s…done. 100 looong feet of flowerbed. Sweet Tea is taking its sweet time, but getting closer. Tornado Honeysuckle is such a trooper. Even in the face of goddamned aphids. First 544 Husker Red penstemon! Now the most surprising bloom of all! I thought the little puffs of white on my dieffenbachia were mealy […]