3 posts tagged “roses”

I'm a bit tuckered out after mowing and hedging the lawn. I went over it first with a regular lawn mower, then a weed whacker to get at the parts the mower couldn't reach. Then I got a hand-clipper and finished off the parts that the weed whacker couldn't get to. It's looking mighty nice.

The roses are particularly happy. I have three bushes, all with lots of buds and lots of flowers. They're happy little campers.

Yellow Roses

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:

Little Bitty Hedges

We're hoping that the pruning job will encourage growth at the bottom and spring back bushy and strong. It has sun now, too, which it didn't have before. Thus, the tops were bushy and the bottoms were bare. Now it's just a bunch of cut down sticks that we hope will have a chance to develop more heathily.

The cut down hedges ended up looking like a medieval fort. They were gnarled and bent, in some cases tough and in other cases brittle and dead. My husband and my neighbor bundled them up with twine. They're waiting for the next yard waste/recycle pickup from the town.

I Used To Be A Hedge

Last year my sister gave me a most unexpected birthday present - she hired a landscaper to come, dig up my front yard garden, and replant it with a variety of flowers, including roses. My new gardener friend/woman friend of the co-owner loved the look and they're going to model his side on mine. She particularly liked the ornamental grasses. Blush. Now, I DON'T smoke them.

Lavendar and Rose

It's a bit early for the grasses to be growing back, but we cut them down and pulled out a lot of dead stuff from last fall. The garden is nice and clean, hedged, trimmed and ready to go!

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:

Soon For You Spinach