I worked in the front garden all day yesterday and in the back garden today. I confess I’m a little sore all over. The garden, however, is looking good. The honeysuckle is happily climbing up the shovel. Soon I’ll have to figure out a way… Read More
The summer before last, I created a lean-to out in the back yard, and then last year I made a second one. Maintaining the back garden, with all the mature trees and the shrubs in the back, generates plenty of sticks of various sizes and… Read More
Tuffy P has been working on cleaning up the front gardens as the season’s new growth begins. In a few weeks, this photo will look very bare, but for now the garden looks fresh and clean and full of new growth. Tuffy has planted a… Read More
Some of the hostas in our garden are quite big so I thought it was time I divided some of them. Considering how easy it is to get several plants from one big one, it’s surprising how expensive they are at local nurseries. The way… Read More
We have two varieties of Rudbeckias in the canoe garden. One is the Little Goldstar, which is supposed to be an improved perennial Black-Eyed Susans variety and looks like your basic Black-Eyed Susan. The other is the Prairie-Glow Brown-Eyed Susan. It is touted as a… Read More
AKA Himalayan Cobra Lily. Jack-in-the-pulpit late-spring blooms. Sun to part-shade. We put ours in the big front garden near the front. This can get 4 or 5 feet tall with umbrellas of leaflets. That sounds spectacular. Ours is small but then we just planted it.
Hostas do well here. I’ve previously posted photos of the phenomenal giant lime green hostas we now have in three places in the garden (and we’re going to split one or perhaps two of them again later this summer). Gradually, I’d like to expand the… Read More
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
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
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