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FF 2nd Covid vacc, was dizzy from "making up postponed dr appt's" due to pandemic caution. With just one more doc to go next week, I’m spending much of each Spring day clearing, weeding, removing last yr's bark mulch, and digging.
Most newly installed 75 spring bulbs with markers have stopped their bloom along with returning tulips, daffies, and hyacinths.
Easter weekend I emptied and broke down a 40" wooden whiskey barrel that was beginning to rot at the bottom. Replaced it with a 30" and mixed old soil with new along with cow manure, compost, perlite and gypsum to use as new filler. Centered beautiful blue annual salvia with 4 surrounding ivy geraniums.and pleased with the look.
Cut back Eng. Ivy surrounding front tree and then took cuttings to root. Added new soil mix to one area of front courtyard and installed 36 purchased Eng. Ivy to area cleared earlier of mixed vinca and ivy.
Obssessed with gardening after a yr of no new plant purchases, layers of dust increase inside but I'm just giving them a nod as I grab an iced tea and head back outdoors.
A doz. Dahlia tubers installed along with Shasta daisies, geraniums, snaps and more strawberry plants. Lined one large back bed with white stones. Yay! To Spring, sunshine and life in the yard!
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@fiesty76 I'm impressed w/your good work and the wonderful varied selection of beauties. I love everything you mentioned. Never grown snaps here, don't know how they'd do. And, I love shastas, geraniums. I have a medium sized pot with red/hot pink geraniums filling it and blooming their little heads off, with a tall saw - grass in the center, about 2' tall. I love it. It should, if I do my part, keep blooming and be happy and make me happy for a long time. Hope so....Did you buy your white stones at the store or have on property or ??? What's in that bed? Are the ivy geraniums red you planted with the blue salvia? Bet that's good.
BTW: about the dust...makes for superb notes to family or friends or self. I have a serious problem w/dust until I get my new windows installed. On the list.
Bless you my friend. Enjoy tomorrow after refreshing night. elizabeth
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@fiesty76 I love succulents for some reason, maybe because they're so unusual, weird, I like that in my garden. These stone ropes are a bright, almost irridescent yellow-green. It's a great color against the darker green of simple giant lirope or mondo grass. I have some sad hydrangeas in my front tree area that really need help and support.....I'm thinking of adding a couple of new hydrangeas to fill in and then just mulch and I'm looking for something as accent in front of them. Semi shade area. But, I have to quell my enthusiasm, as whatever I buy has to be planted by someone other than me! And maintained.....so, maybe just mulch.
The condo board repaved our private streets, curbing, everything and tore out most of the median plantings & tossed in a garbage container!!!!! I was horrified! I can't stand the thought of killing a living plant. Of the opinion we should save them and find a place for them to thrive. So, I hobbled out and picked up, put on my patio 40-50 clumps of healthy liriope and ammarylas and star plant. I saved them all over the winter on my concrete patio....they're happy, growing, ammarylas are blooming!!! On concrete! They're saying a big 'thank you' for saving them...I even dropped a bunch of huge star plant bulbs on leaves under my live oak tree. They got watered w/grass and are blooming now. So, I'll get the neighbor boys to plant them. May put liriope out front and on patio. I'm focused on easy, simple, pretty and self-maintaining....my how we change.
Enjoy the fun. Have a blessed day. elizabeth