Adventures in Gardening: Late Spring 2013
Posted: 2013/05/20 Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Daisy, Dicentra, Hakuro Nashiki willow, Hosta, Lavender, Mr Lincoln Rose, peony, raised bed garden, russian sage, salvia, Square Foot Garden, Willow, window boxes Leave a commentThere is not much going on in the yard right now, the iris needed thinning so I yanked it all out last year and haven’t replanted yet.
Yesterday I trimmed the willow trees to actually look like trees instead of bushes, trimmed the spruce, got started on killing the grass that keeps cropping up.
I attended to the climbing rose and put a few tendrils better on the trellis, pulled a bunch of weeds, and removed the square foot gardening grids so I can work in those beds too.
Trimmed the Russian Sage, and re-potted all the tomato and tomatillo seedlings I started in February. I have a list a mile long on what needs to be done in both the front and back yards.
Well, I need to make the list on paper instead of in my head so I can prioritize, I am hosting a wine event in mid-June and I’d like the garden to look a smidge better than it does right now for sure.
Here is where we are so far, looks like it is going to be an expensive plant year! The Salvia is new and I need some on the west side of the retaining wall to balance it out a little better.
The window boxes have turned themselves into a snapdragon nursery bed, trying to figure out how I can cultivate those and still get the mats and plants replaced for new ones this year.
Antique Zephirine Drouhin Climbing Rose
Posted: 2013/05/19 Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Garden, Maison Joseph Drouhin, rose, Shrubs Leave a comment
Zephirine Drouhin climbing pink rose. Year #2
Year 2, and there are blooms already! If I can just keep the beetles at bay and the black spot away I should have a wonderful pink rose show!
Holy Moly it’s a Gardening Day
Posted: 2013/05/19 Filed under: Gardening Leave a commentHappy Sunday Lovies! I’m so glad my indoor projects have come to almost completion because oh my goodness do I have a ton of gardening to do.
So far this morning I have harvested cilantro and made green sauce with last years roasted peppers from the garden, harvested chive flowers and have them drying for chive oil and vinegar.
I have SOOOO much clean up and prep to do before I can even plant, I have sunflower and zinnia seeds to get in, a rose to tie to trellis, willows to cut back, weeds to pull. Oh my the list just goes on and on.
I want to have it all done by Friday so I can spend Memorial Day Weekend, NOT at the Chateau, but here in the yard. It’s a mulch year for the whole garden, a dirt year for the raised beds.
I have to pull out and fill the window beds, I have things to spray paint and hoses to untangle and yeesh!
Hope this finds you enjoying the outdoors today as well, hope to have some pics by the end of the day!
Happy Gardening!
This is the Truth: Stay Strong
Posted: 2013/05/17 Filed under: Fearlessly Be Yourself, Quotes | Tags: Fearlessly be yourself, loving yourself, quotes about haters, quotes about staying strong, This is the truth Leave a comment
This is the truth: You know who you are, what you stand for, where your heart and intents lie. Don’t allow anyone else to define you for you or convince you something opposed to the truth you know inside yourself. So what if they can’t, don’t, won’t see it. Stop wasting time trying to make them see something they couldn’t comprehend to begin with, YOU know it’s there and that Lovies, is all that matters. Put it out there as best you know how and screw the haters, they are everywhere and they WANT to derail you so they can feel better about their own evil, pitiful, shameful, pathetic, ugly selves. Give them empathy and a knowing smile of understanding because we all have moments of hate, evil, ugliness, and shame. Some just choose to live and wallow there versus working their asses off to find a better way to love themselves or learning to throw up their arms and shout “Let it go!” Stay strong, proud and smiling. You are worth it, you can do it and you are strong! Don’t let anyone strip it from you or give it away to the haters.
Happy Friday! ❤
Laura
The Garden in Spring 2013
Posted: 2013/05/11 Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Bulb, Daffodil, dutch men's britches, Flower, Grape Hyacinth, Home and Garden, hyacinth, Tulips Leave a commentApparently I started the rip apart and redo trend last fall when it was bulb planting time. All of the Iris came out of the ground and haven’t made it back in yet. This led to digging up every bulb in the retaining beds and a complete redo.
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- Glads
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- iris
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- Lilly
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- Daisies getting divided and moved
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- Tulips and Daffodils
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- Yep, a hot mess
I bought some new bulbs for the back beds and my Mom ( for those of you not in the know, my Dad remarried when I was 3) came over and helped me go through the piles and piles of bulbs on the patio and replant them. In the process she made me promise to pull up the back tulips after they bloomed and throw them away. So tomorrow before we go over there for Mother’s Day, I’m going to listen and follow directions, the gift every Mother dreams of, and dig up the tulip bulbs and take them to her as a silly gift. In spite of the ripping apart, re-doing , and really cold weird Spring we’ve had the garden didn’t look too awful shabby. The front beds looked quite nice actually, which means they will be kaput and ready for new bulbs as well next year. Tulips only last about 2-3 years in Indiana, I don’t know why really but I think it’s the clay soggy soil, it just rots them eventually. Plus I get to buy new tulip bulbs for the fall, so it’s cool. Here are the pics of what did bloom. Happy Spring!!
Closer to Lola 
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