7 posts tagged “garden”
I'd formerly identified the red flower as a single, or shrub, rose. I wandered into the gardening store where my sister had placed the order and was told that she had planted several rose bushes, at my sister's request.
I saw this, for the first time, today. Roses on my rose bush! There's a slight scent, too. Wonderful.
Here are a few more pictures of the garden overall. Still needs a good weeding, some mulch and a mowed lawn, but hopefully that will happen sometime this weekend.
The vegetable garden is coming in, too. Here are my green beans:
Topsoil! Loam! Black, lovely dirt and now it's in where it belongs! The trench my hubby dug two weeks ago is now filled to the brim with brand new soil. We've filled in depressions and patches in the front lawn and garden and built up the area around the front bushes.
Pretty! Hopefully I'll be able to plan the basil, strawberries and green beans that are patiently sitting in planters or seed packages. Yesssssssss!
The best part? Cheap. We got one cubic yard of dirt, delivered, from a landscaper this afternoon for a grand total of $40.00. My husband shoveled it into a wheelbarrow and off we went. All done. Time for veggies and flowers!
My husband began a garden project yesterday afternoon, to my utter surprise. He's been asking off and on if I'd like some expanded room for the vegetable garden that we dug out and re-soiled several years ago. There some sunny land right next to it, that's currently grown over with forsythia bushes and weeds. Well, yesterday he started digging away, even hauling an axe out of the basement to chop at the rather large root ball from the old, woody forsythia. He's now taking the soil to his parents house to dump. When he's finished excavating, he'll get a pile of new, fresh top soil and our expanded garden will be for real. Wow!
The land we have available for cultivation is very small. The vegetable garden is a long, narrow strip next to the house. It's relatively sunny so sun-hungry plants do well there. While we were at it, I took the opportunity to add a few petunias to the recently worked-on front yard, also plant some flowers from seed. Then I took some pictures. It's still in the developmental stages, so it's more dirt than anything else, but at least I can see the progress!
Well! I spent the early part of the day working in the yard with my condo co-owner's new woman friend. Our co-owner lost his wife to cancer about two years ago, so I'm glad to see he's moving on with his life. He's a doctor and his lady friend is a nurse practitioner. They're both in their 50s. Hurray!
I heard a commotion outside this morning, to see our neighbor scratching in the dirt of his front yard garden with the above-mentioned woman next to him. One thing led to another and we ended up doing a once-over on the entire front - his and ours. The most ambitious project was cutting down a privet hedge that was old and very woody. We went at it with a saw and heavy-duty clippers and it now looks like this:
And, since I think it's finally now warm enough, I planted my spinach in the side yard! No, you can't see it yet, but it's in there at last:
Two of the Iris my friend Rosie sent me (the bulldog who got me a new Palm Pilot, remember her?) are back and fanning out in green leaves. It's a bit too early for flowers yet, but we'll see if any decide to show.
Aaaah, yes, my garden. How I've missed it!
I got the shock of my life when I got home from my weekend family visit. It was dark by the time we got to our house, but at one point I looked down as I stood near the base of the stairs to the front door. There was a flower at my foot.
What?
There wasn't a flower when I left Boston. In fact, my entire front garden had succumbed almost entirely to crab grass and weeds. Frequent summer rains, my hectic schedule and then my back injury ensured that I woudln't be weeding anytime soon. I had basically given up.
I looked up and saw...another flower! Then I looked and noticed plants I'd never seen before, along with meticulously trimmed bushes. Then I noticed that a part of the lawn had been dug up and replanted.
Huh? I looked at Aram, who just giggled. What was going on? Then Aram told me: my sister, Bette, had my front yard dug up and replanted as a birthday present to me! It was a surprise. They did it the weekend I was in Buffalo visiting her along with the rest of my family.
Well, I'm flabbergasted! I never would have expected such a thing. Thanks, little sister! I've teased her for years about having she and her husband renovate my house (they're constantly fixing up their house and garden and I'm a bit jealous of her, to be honest!). Well, my sister decided to start with the garden. Oh my God! Check out some pictures and a video I made of this unbelievable birthday present!
