Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yarden maintenance May into June, 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Today--I potted up the 2 Pineapple Lilies and the Calla Lily Susan at work gave me.
They are from Brent and Becky's garden center. It was so generous of her....
She also gave me a huge bulb of an Amaryllis--potted that in the ground in an open space in my raised bed.
She also gave me 5 bulbs of "Forever Susan" Day Lilies. Have NO idea where to put these.
It is SO hard to find an open space if someone gifts me something. I will do the best i can.

I potted the Calla Lily in a big pot and the 2 Pineapple Lilies in 2 pots as well.
Preparing for an easy bring-in for the winter. or--digging them into a bed.

Bought a bunch of annuals at HD last Saturday. They are having a great sale of 6" annuals.
6" pots (4 plants in each) ---4/ $10. Individual 4" annuals--.98 cents each. (Reg.--$1.25).
Proven Winners 4" pots--$2.50 each (reg. $4.98). I think they just got too much of everything in.
NOT moving! Most people are done planting by now. Now it is the mulches and the soils and all that.
Shrubs for fall should be coming in soon. Why else would thewy have cleared out the back of the
Outside garden already????? What the H---is going on?????

Can't say this is across the board of all HD's---but that is what ours are going for.

I still need a few fill ins in my beds. Hope i stop with the plants soon. Enough is enough!!!

SUPRISE!!!!!! I actually like the 6' fence my neighbors put up!
It is a nice back-drop to my "YUK" bed. I do not have to worry about what I do and what they do--
as there is now a visual barrier. The Mother used to always say--"Good Morning"--and I breathed a sight--
"Now she is going to ask me to look at her zillions of pots to see how well everything is rooting.....

There is, even for me--a sort of peace of mind.
I DO miss my little buddy--Hamsah! He always got so excited when he saw me.
Now they are restricting him to even venture outside this fence that was put up to keep him for wandering out.

I do not think that was the only reason. That would not take a 6'solid fence. That is just their way of
having an enclosed garden--just like "back home".....(Pakistan)...

#1---the fence along my :YUK" bed--a nice back drop...
#2--This is looking from the street side at their fence at theur kitchen sode door.
The opening is now a gate. SO! A total enclosure for them.....I DO miss the neighborly communications--but that is it!

Gita