Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening June 2014, 4 by speediebean

speediebean wrote:
AMEN to that, Sisters!!!!!!! < =D Cat, you're doing an awfully LOT for being so closely post-op! Be careful Young Lady or I'm gonna have to tell your doctor! =P heehee I am glad you're feeling better though, and SEEING better, YIPPEEE!!! Gardening is seriously under-rated, I tell ya...

Spent most of yesterday and today outside playing and GOSH it's been great!!!! Even though I used my sunblock like a good little girl, some sun still sneaked past it and coloured me golden/happy! =) I got all of the honeysuckle vine that I wanted to tackle taken care of yesterday. That kicked my dupa! Spade, shovel, pitch fork .. Yoy what a pain! Today I weeded more areas.. like ALL of the rest of it. ;) heeheeheee Sprayed Ortho stuff where it would be safe to spray it, installed 4 Poblano peppers, a handful of Coleus and a couple other things, raked out most of the table area out back and switched the places of the bird bath and the Blue Angel Hosta that I got from Gita... used to be Hosta behind the bird bath.. BAD idea! Fed and watered everyone, cut back the bloom stalks of the Irises.. and I don't know what all else. Sure feels nice to have that done! Goodness, those weeds in the Big Bed were ridiculous!!!

Found some interesting things in some pots out back.. never know what's gonna fall into them and grow while I'm not looking. A few pics to share, if anyone's got any ideas, please let me know.

Oh, and Paul, are you still on the lookout for Columbine Little Lanterns seeds? I collected some for you, just in case. :)

1- About 85% of that green behind the Coreopsis and Mint are WEEDS! Good Heavens, how does it get so bad so fast!?

2- One of the odd things I found in one of my pots. Weirdest looking leaves I've seen.. they look distorted and just plain "wrong".

3- The biggest Caladium so far in the background, with.. I don't remember what in the foreground. At first I thought it might be a weed when it first came up.. glad I decided to wait and see before I pulled it out! Looks familiar, but I don't remember what it is!! Oh and look! There's Paul's jar of Columbine seeds! :)

4- Gitas Hosta in FRONT of bird bath.. looks so much better now! =)

5- The "right side" benches, where I put the newly-potted up stuff; Coleuses and the decorative Pineapple plant. I hope that thing makes it, it was a rescue. :)