4/28/09

Been Busy

We went out and got some garden timbers for the beds and dirt....



Spent two days putting in the timbers, leveling, adding peat moss and soil and rototilling....



Then we decided that a natural pressure treated wood was not what we wanted, so we picked Cape Cod Gray...

I love it, it blends into the yard a bit and looks like it was here for years...





it's not fun staining fence in 100 degree weather... what happened to April?
And then we have these...

And these....




CHEERS!!!!



Been busy!

4/23/09

Last Weekend

No pics today but last weekend we finished the planting beds, finished the soil additions, rototilled and planted! no veggies yet, we're waiting till may 1st for that, but some nice flowers and leafy green borders...

pics to come!

Cheers!

4/7/09

Biding Time Till A Dry Weekend...

Some new growth, well new plantings and blooming bulbs really. It's rained every weekend for three weeks and I think the weather plans on being unfavorable again this weekend so no rototillering for me again... that irks me to no end, the one nice weekend we had I blew being lazy...

We decided to remove one large and ugly dead bush and plant a Euonymus (that's fancy pants for Burning Bush, I'd go into the stuck up brat high school kid who sold it to me and how he "helped" me pronounce Euonymus, but all he really did was make me want to hit him over the head with it, he could have just said Burning Bush but then he wouldn't have gotten to sound so "smart")

In any respect, we replaced a large mostly dead bush in the from of the house.I'm not a fan of digging out roots and rocks, but you would think I would be with all the holes I have to dig...





Please try and ignore the drainage pipe, that's one of the reasons we put a bush there, well that and privacy for the sun room.






We also put in two Clematis vines.
We're hoping they'll grow and grow and grow all over the picket fence. I was told that they should cover about 15 feet each.














So we put one at each end of the fence, if they do well we'll add another on the side probably... I know, it's hard to see...







I also added a "found rock" border to the bulb garden...

As you can see I haven't found quite enough rocks yet, but we did add some bright and beautiful Annuals! I need a better picture of them though...Here's what blooming!


Cheers!!!!!