Continuing Yard Improvements
Our neighbors think we are certifiably nuts! John yelled over the fence yesterday..."Don't you know the more flower beds you make, the more you have to weed?" I guess we see it as, the more beds you have the more color you can add to your yard...and less grass to cut!
Mark, Michael and I crammed our bodies into the truck yesterday afternoon and made a trip to Bzak...one of our favorite plant places. Michael even likes it because they have a cool play area and it is across the road from train tracks. We were looking for plants for the new bed we were adding around the lamppost.
I wanted another clematis...one like we had in WI and just a few other plants...two clematis, three meadow sage salvia, one flat of pink phlox, one large container of purple Siberian iris, and two yellow dwarf coreopsis later...We dug the rocks out of the bed of ivy in the front yard. We have rocks literally running out our ears.
Yvonne, Betsy and the members of the youth group will love this next bit of information. All the sod that we dug out around the lamppost was then taken to the bare spots in the front yard...our cheap version of sod replacement!
It is getting time to plant some other vegetables but in order to do that we first had to transplant one large hosta and iris bed. So the task begins. Oh my goodness...two hours later we finally have them all dug out, separated and sitting all over the yard to be planted and in buckets to give away....we could never in million years use them all. John even came over and got a big clump of hosta. Betsy will be here soon to get her clump. Tomorrow between preschool, the puppy and a track meet I must begin the arduous task of finding places for all the hosta and iris. Cassie, you and Sarah might be getting some for your yards next week.
After dinner Mark and I revved up the little tiller and tilled up the hosta spot until the dirt was nice and fine...results...five hills of zucchini and yellow squash. Fifty two days from now we should be making zucchini bread and have grilled yellow squash. I can taste it now. Hosta, hosta.everywhere...not a space left! Now I am on to the iris. By looking at the bucket, I'd have to say there must be 200 plants that need to be in the ground, yesterday. I was taking a sweet tea break and playing with the dog, when I noticed new color in the back flowerbed. Here is what I found...
All of these are, I believe, the new variety of azalea. Keith found them for us in his gold mine of of flowering bushes and plants. Blooming so far in the yard are cream, peach, pink and orange azalea. Next year should be beautiful!
Mark, Michael and I crammed our bodies into the truck yesterday afternoon and made a trip to Bzak...one of our favorite plant places. Michael even likes it because they have a cool play area and it is across the road from train tracks. We were looking for plants for the new bed we were adding around the lamppost.
I wanted another clematis...one like we had in WI and just a few other plants...two clematis, three meadow sage salvia, one flat of pink phlox, one large container of purple Siberian iris, and two yellow dwarf coreopsis later...We dug the rocks out of the bed of ivy in the front yard. We have rocks literally running out our ears.
Yvonne, Betsy and the members of the youth group will love this next bit of information. All the sod that we dug out around the lamppost was then taken to the bare spots in the front yard...our cheap version of sod replacement!It is getting time to plant some other vegetables but in order to do that we first had to transplant one large hosta and iris bed. So the task begins. Oh my goodness...two hours later we finally have them all dug out, separated and sitting all over the yard to be planted and in buckets to give away....we could never in million years use them all. John even came over and got a big clump of hosta. Betsy will be here soon to get her clump. Tomorrow between preschool, the puppy and a track meet I must begin the arduous task of finding places for all the hosta and iris. Cassie, you and Sarah might be getting some for your yards next week.
After dinner Mark and I revved up the little tiller and tilled up the hosta spot until the dirt was nice and fine...results...five hills of zucchini and yellow squash. Fifty two days from now we should be making zucchini bread and have grilled yellow squash. I can taste it now. Hosta, hosta.everywhere...not a space left! Now I am on to the iris. By looking at the bucket, I'd have to say there must be 200 plants that need to be in the ground, yesterday. I was taking a sweet tea break and playing with the dog, when I noticed new color in the back flowerbed. Here is what I found...
All of these are, I believe, the new variety of azalea. Keith found them for us in his gold mine of of flowering bushes and plants. Blooming so far in the yard are cream, peach, pink and orange azalea. Next year should be beautiful!
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