| Jdowdle Posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 11:22 am: |   
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Found this forum today. How wonderful! list of to-do's: get pics of the gardens, put more rocks in the path, finish remulching the rock garden,weed out the other half of the path, count how many little bits of green are just beginning to show,and count my blessings.
temp today - need a good outdoor thermometer...the frost was very heavy, though, and the high is supposed to reach 55. The columbines are just starting, the chives are about 4" tall, the flax, sedum and pontentillas are up, as well as the red alliums - that was a wonderful find! The thymes between the rocks (this is their second season) are progressing at an astounding rate! ooh! and the rosy finches finally found the bird feeder!...this journal will be fun.... |
| Jdowdle Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 08:07 am: |
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snowed last week, of course. I have made a couple of discoveries, though. I have four volunteer violas that are now blooming, that's a first! I have had pansies winter over this year, and I have found a veritable carpet of catnip seedlings. OOH! and phlox! My phlox came through the winter! I thought they had all been eaten to death last summer. That was the second time that happened so I had completely given up on them. And the Walmart hyacinths that we got last year for mothers day, then put into the garden, then watched the dogs dig them back up, watched them die a slow horrid death (knowing nothing about bulbs) have ALL come back!
My first order from HCG should be here next week. I haven't tried mail order plants before. I moved some chives to containers -so far so good and the blanket flowers and bleeding heart that wasn't really happy anyway - too much sun - it's going to a friend - and now have a place waiting for the new plants. I still have 2 to 3 weeks of frosts, we'll see how they do.
I had one honeysuckle vine winter over, but I'm not sure about the other one...and this will be my second year to do sweet peas. Last year they were VERY slow to start, but I got enough of them by the end of the summer to make the house smell wonderful and consider that experiment a success, so this year I'll try to improve - another flower I was told would not grow up here... |
| Jdowdle Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007 - 12:10 am: |
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Wow! What a wonderful day outside...the first sunburn of the summer! Planted more rocks today. saw the first hummingbird, though I've been hearing them. Sat on the garden wall and walked through memories for a while...felt the sun on the skin and was thankful that even when I've forgotten for a time, I am, after all, blessed...and thankful... |
