Today I spent 3 exhausting, but satisfying hours in my yard. I replanted my 5 annuals planters in the front of my house and spruced up 2 planters on the back patio. I cleaned out my 3 copper hanging baskets and am getting these ready for new plantings for the summer. Now I just have to break out the copper cleaner next. Then I planted a lavender and delphinium in the back flower beds and finally weeded two huge buckets full of weeds. There are always more weeds to pull. My plan is to hopefully mulch the final two unmulched beds in the back yard tomorrow. Today’s yardwork was accomplished with my two-year old tagging along the whole time. I put her to work watering my new plantings. Something which which she LOVES to do with her little monkey watering can. Sometimes her shoes get more water than the plants, but she’s actually getting pretty good at handling the watering can.
I was in Virginia and Cancun, Mexico for a two week vacation and missed 80+ degree weather and snow as well. My weather station kept me up-to-date. I came home to find all sorts of new blooms and buds that didn’t look bad for all they’d been through! Here’s what’s newly blooming:
- tulips
- forget-me-nots
- sour cherry tree
- ornamental strawberries (lipstick)
- lamium
- wild ginger
- English daisy
- bog rosemary
- dicentra (bleeding hearts) in pink and white
- fritillaria
- Leopard’s Bane
- Foam Flower
- Pulminaria
Also, the past two days since I have been home I have been busy getting a couple of roots and tubers in the ground that I ordered and had arrived while I was out of town. I planted the following:
- Dahlia- Mary Evaline
- CURCUMA ALISMATIFOLIA THAI SUPREME
- BRODIAEA LAXA ROYAL BLUE
- GENTIAN MARSHA
- ARISARUM PROBOSCIDEUM (THE MOUSE PLANT)
- ASTRANTIA MAJOR MOULIN ROUGE
- DAHLIA BLUE BELL
- ASTRANTIA RUBY WEDDING
- BUTTERFLY PLANT A. INCARNATA
- BUTTERFLY PLANT A. INCARNATA ICE BALLET
- BUTTERFLY PLANT A. TUBEROSA
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