I know it doesn't look like much, but I made this bed from scratch and I am ridiculously proud of it. The Limelights have put on a lot of growth-- can't wait to see them do their thing later in the summer.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
How Do You Eat an Elephant?
Why would you? Who eats elephants?
Not too thrilling as is. I am thinking shrubby and beautiful because I have to watch how much work I make for myself with perennials, at least until some things get established. I need to sit with my books and my graph paper and Brian's plan and craft something. Ideas most welcome.
For fun, here's the rock wall which the guys finished last weekend. Isn't it dear? I planted Sedum Vera Jameson and Dragon's Blood along the top, along with some aurinia I got on sale at Lowe's ($1 each), some lantana, moss rose, and lamium. Is it lamium? Silver annual. Brain fart. Maybe I should throw in all those self-seeding thunbergia going wild on the AC trellis. In particular I need some fabulous specimen for the 3x3 spot where it ends on the left (not shown!) which is filled with expensive imported Garden Soil and ready for something totally awesome. Which I have not been able to figure out. Anybody?
Anyway-- so many areas to plan, and plant (and pay for.) Must take on one at a time. The areas in my 60X90 foot yard all suddenly have names-- Kit Island, Hemlock Hillock, the Rock Wall, and the Garage Bed which totally needs a better name. Let's focus today on Garage Bed, which is on the West side of the garage wall, currently about 8x20 although it is meant to get bigger, to pretty much fill the grassy area in the picture. There is presently a Dancing Peacocks Japanese Maple, a big fat peony, a Peach Drift Rose, a lone bearded iris that miraculously sustained itself in its original plastic pot for something like 3 years, four inches of topsoil over paper and a whole lot o' mulch. At the moment this is pretty much full sun. Brian's plan calls for a Dragonlady Holly which I will probably do, but not right now because the answer to "How much have you spent?" would be "Way too."
It looks like this:
Not too thrilling as is. I am thinking shrubby and beautiful because I have to watch how much work I make for myself with perennials, at least until some things get established. I need to sit with my books and my graph paper and Brian's plan and craft something. Ideas most welcome.
For fun, here's the rock wall which the guys finished last weekend. Isn't it dear? I planted Sedum Vera Jameson and Dragon's Blood along the top, along with some aurinia I got on sale at Lowe's ($1 each), some lantana, moss rose, and lamium. Is it lamium? Silver annual. Brain fart. Maybe I should throw in all those self-seeding thunbergia going wild on the AC trellis. In particular I need some fabulous specimen for the 3x3 spot where it ends on the left (not shown!) which is filled with expensive imported Garden Soil and ready for something totally awesome. Which I have not been able to figure out. Anybody?
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Perennial Geranium, What's Cheap at Walmart, and Too Many Notes
Click to admire them bigger.
What's cheap at Walmart right now (NB: I spend a lot of money at independent nurseries. Swear.) Tub o' foxglove for $10, ditto delphinium $12. Peach Drift Rose for $10. Iris Caesar's Brother (ok it's small) for $7. Small Twist N Shout or Endless Summer Hydrangea for $15. The foxglove, delphinium, and Peach Drift came home with me. I was planning the peach drift for the Special Spot by the Putative Rock Wall, but the color appears to be a no-go for the violent pinks I have going so far back there. So I am in the usual gardener's dilemma of trying to find a suitable spot for my irresistible bargain goody. No room in the south bed At All-- I am so proud of that bed, everything is thriving (thus far). The Walking on Sunshine rose my dad bought me at Hershey Gardens is splendid===>
Plan of attack for the mountain of work, er, happiness in the backyard: continue laying paper, topsoil, and mulch, starting with the west side of the house, and then if any's left over moving across the back fence line. Keep building the wall with those cream puff, light as a feather rocks.
Spent two hours working in the church garden this morning. It is brutal crazy hot suddenly, in the 90s. I am pretty much indentured to my new trees and sprouting grass, not to mention a family of five requiring laundry, shopping, cooking, and errand running services. Today, for example, included: SAT run for elder daughter, Walmart, church garden, home, SATs again, Panera, Home Depot, Autozone, home again. Giant grocery, home again. Throw in mowing the lawn, watering, making dinner. Macy's, JC Penny, Gap, Children's Place, Sears to find fifth grade promotion dress for younger daughter (OK, they're all in the same mall.) Home again, jigitty jig. No one is twisting my arm to buy and care for ALL THESE PLANTS-- inside AND out. MORE COMING IN THE MAIL. MUST STOP. NEED TWELVE STEP PROGRAM. STAGE INTERVENTION, PLEASE.
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| Rozanne |
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| Striatum, I think? |
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| OK, not Karmina, don't know where that picture went. This is my Carefree Beauty which is beserker this year. |
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| Scene of way too damn much to do |
What's cheap at Walmart right now (NB: I spend a lot of money at independent nurseries. Swear.) Tub o' foxglove for $10, ditto delphinium $12. Peach Drift Rose for $10. Iris Caesar's Brother (ok it's small) for $7. Small Twist N Shout or Endless Summer Hydrangea for $15. The foxglove, delphinium, and Peach Drift came home with me. I was planning the peach drift for the Special Spot by the Putative Rock Wall, but the color appears to be a no-go for the violent pinks I have going so far back there. So I am in the usual gardener's dilemma of trying to find a suitable spot for my irresistible bargain goody. No room in the south bed At All-- I am so proud of that bed, everything is thriving (thus far). The Walking on Sunshine rose my dad bought me at Hershey Gardens is splendid===>
Plan of attack for the mountain of work, er, happiness in the backyard: continue laying paper, topsoil, and mulch, starting with the west side of the house, and then if any's left over moving across the back fence line. Keep building the wall with those cream puff, light as a feather rocks.
Spent two hours working in the church garden this morning. It is brutal crazy hot suddenly, in the 90s. I am pretty much indentured to my new trees and sprouting grass, not to mention a family of five requiring laundry, shopping, cooking, and errand running services. Today, for example, included: SAT run for elder daughter, Walmart, church garden, home, SATs again, Panera, Home Depot, Autozone, home again. Giant grocery, home again. Throw in mowing the lawn, watering, making dinner. Macy's, JC Penny, Gap, Children's Place, Sears to find fifth grade promotion dress for younger daughter (OK, they're all in the same mall.) Home again, jigitty jig. No one is twisting my arm to buy and care for ALL THESE PLANTS-- inside AND out. MORE COMING IN THE MAIL. MUST STOP. NEED TWELVE STEP PROGRAM. STAGE INTERVENTION, PLEASE.
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