California Gardening: What's happening in your spring garden #5, 1 by Twincol

Twincol wrote:
Spring is such a messy time. But your blooms are unbelievable and make the mess worth it.

My poor rose tree was suffering, dry, wilty, looking out of sorts. I doodled around on the surface a bit and found that the finch seed was considerably thicker than I knew, had even developed a kind'a solid lid of sorts. So I scraped the surface off and laid out a couple of inches of new planter soil on top. I also whacked back the bloomers around the bottom of the pot. Cleaning up, as spring demands. I think I'll move the socks.

But look at the silly, goofy little tree I found at the hardware store yesterday. I've avoided the lighting section at our locally owned HW store for months, knowing that if I went back I'd have to bring it home. And I just didn't want to spend $60 on a goofy lamp. Well . . . I negotiated the price down to $20 and came home delirious (smudge here, missing bead there, loose bird . . . each cost them $20 LOL). Life is good; no watering, feeding of either birds or vegetation, 24X7 bird watching potential.

This is the same HW store from where I purchased my 5 huge concrete puts for $120. I'm there often and they know me, as a result. Not sure why they'd be so "easy" otherwise.

Not sure if the table it rests on is visible, but I made this table. I wanted a potting bench-like table behind my floral sofa in my "garden room." It's my sofa table. I made the bench out of pieces of redwood and just looked at other pieces of furniture to see how it was put together and just . . . made it! The top is slatted and I figure I can move it out to the garden any ol' time I want or need to. In the meantime I watch the seasons, the hummingbirds, finches, TV, laptop monitor, etc.

So that's California in my house this weekend. More 17YO workers in the front landscaping tomorrow.

Linda