After taking the dogs for their Sunday morning walk, I snapped a few shots of the canoe garden. Strange sky. Is it going to rain? It’s still so humid my camera lens fogs up when I start taking pictures. A few notes on the new… Read More
Most people around here do most of their planting in the spring. Our circumstance is a little different in that this season we have expanded our gardens mid-summer – and added a canoe garden. The new gardens are partially planted but we saved some room… Read More
Mrs. Goose waddled over to the checkerboard garden to be closer to her pal, Lamb.
A couple weeks ago I decided to add another new garden out back, this time a checkerboard garden. I finally got around to doing the grunt work today. It’s no great shakes yet – some black-eyed susans and some begonias and some ground cover –… Read More
This is a new garden this year. I made it surrounding the bird house, which by the way is still occupied by a family of sparrows. We see them anytime we are not ready with a camera. I have a morning glory growing up the… Read More
The Jackmanii Clematis out front started blooming two days ago. They’re growing on the Leaning Tower of 27th Street, a makeshift trellis made up of a metal trellis that wasn’t tall enough with a wood trellis on top. The wood trellis broke from the weight… Read More
It has been years since I’ve grown a zucchini plant. The last time was back at the house on Blackthorn when I planted two plants that gave me enough zucchini to feed a small country. I thought this year I would scale that back and… Read More
I thought the lean-to needed more substance, and so I fortified it some today. I also planted a flowering currant shrub. That’s the plant with the yellow flowers on the right side of the photo. The veggie garden is coming along fine. We’ll be… Read More
At the back of our house, there is a wooded area. It wasn’t always that way. Apparently an earlier resident of the house did a lot of tree planting on the property. Just in front of the wooded area, we have a little woodland garden,… Read More
Some vegetables can be planted in the garden as soon as the ground can be worked. That means I’m late off the mark after all the crazy warm weather we’ve been having. Now we’re back to seasonal temperatures and we may even see a small… Read More
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