One Nice Thing

about a garden is that you can leave it unattended and it will grow just fine without you.

Well, in this case, without me. 

Weigela florida 'Red Prince' in background.

Weigela florida 'Wine and Roses'.

Clematis hybrid 'H.F. Young'

 A busy week at work and two days of rain.

The first peony [Scarlett O'Hara] of the season.  It's not a good flower, but it's still the first.

But like Mary, Quite Contrary, it grows and grow and grows.

June 4, 2011

Rosa 'Radsunny' PP 18562 (shrub)  (Knock Out Rose)  April 27, 2012

Sunday Progress Report

The beginning of our busy season at work, but I actually prefer the craziness of the next three months to the drag-ass slowness of the winter.

Much running around and shopping; many details to check; and, a business lunch or two - always fun.

A bit of weeding and planting in the afternoons - enjoying the warm days and long sunlight.

Saturday spent pulling stuff out of the under-house storage area for a yard sale in two weeks.

Today - rain.  Brunch later and then reading or maybe a movie.  Time to recharge for another busy week.

Out of My Comfort Zone..

... but in a good way. 

 

Everything is from my garden and much of it from my new cutting garden:  allium, stock, bachelor's buttons and poppies are all new.  The lilac and salvia have never looked better than when paired with their new annual friends.  

 

Thanks Belinda!

Wednesday Workday

Today it rained.  The first drops of water in April.  Made me happy I spent the time over the weekend to re-do a small area of the back garden. 

Remember that gorgeous primrose path I had two summers ago?

As much as I loved it and was initially happy to let the primroses spread, I didn't expect them to be a bully.  It was like a pretty 8th grader turning into a high school mean girl.  They took everything in sight - trying to choke out perennials and even a rose bush. 

Primrose has taken that entire left corner and is overgrowing all the ground cover right of the path.

I finally resorted to Round-up - seriously, I pulled and pulled and pulled without making a dent, so finally only pulled close to things I wanted to save and then hit the rest of the area with killer - many square feet.

Nearly everything is dead now.

Then it was time for a re-design.

There was one "good" and two nearly-choked-out Stokes lilies [Stokesia l. 'Mmary Gregory'] that I moved to better positions, and then I went looking.

Unexpectedly, I found some pretty Forget-Me-Nots at the farmers' market and added seven ajugas [Ajuga reptans 'Purple Brocade'].  Once I had it all laid out and soaked the pots, I was ready to dig some holes. 

A bag of mulch - to help with our early drought - and it's all done.  And then, today, we got rain!

Come back in July, and let's see how it's doing.