Friday, 29 May 2009

• My Garden 2009, So Far...

  Here are the Garden photos I have so far for 2009. There are about 190 of them (I'm not editing them), so they aren't all going to get posted immediately. LOL As it is, I keep being told to "slow down, cowboy!" They cover from mid to late March until today.

  I've been working in the garden, today. So much to be done. Plants can be funny things. I was so careful to put the plants in according to height and then they decide to be different heights than the pot cards said. My "12 inch" perennial geranium is sprawling at about 18 to 24 inches. My Bee Balm is not close to 30 inches. The naked lilies were already here, but I replanted them in new places based on the size they were. This year they decided to double both height and width. That's just the leaves. The flowers show up (after the leaves have been dead for a while) in late August, I think. Are they going to be bigger, too? I don't know.

  I lost a couple of plants, probably because of the ice storm in late December. It was a good thing I used the leaves as mulch for the winter. I'm sure I would have lost more without it. Most (all but 2) of the dahlias in the pots died. (They were supposed to come into the house, but we had no room for them.) Remarkably, the big dahlias planted in the border in back have all returned. They're only 1 or 2 inches so far, but I think they will be happy. I thought I had lost my Jasmine, but it only died above ground. It has plenty of new shoots. The same with a white flower vine next to the deck trellis.

  I managed to get out in April and trim back all my roses and they look really good now. (as long as I don't forget to water them!)

  One of the things I got done this week was putting the drip hose along the back border...

  Uh, oh! I better go turn it off!

  OK. Most of the back border is well watered. It didn't seem to drip as well at the very end where the border turns along the driveway. I'll see how it looks tomorrow. It's too dark, now.

  I will be putting in drip hoses in the deck bed, the corner bed, under the cherry trees in front (both up and down) and along the hydrangea in front of the house. I'll still water the rose garden (all pots) by hand.

  I'm going to add some more of the photos and then I need to do my therapy exercises and them I plan to read.

  When I was writing this, I was listening to:
  張學友 - 暗中的感覺
  張家輝 (Andy Lau) - 忠於自己
  梅艷芳 (Anita Mui) - 心仍是冷 ( 寒冬版 )

  Currently In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose By Alice Walker see related

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