New Garden Projects This Year #5

nice Weeze!!

hey i think i've seen that!! nice job :)

here is a picture of the rock seat that louise and hank donated

a little closer look

i go outside this morning and forget to get pics of the wall - must have been the late night of baseball - so went out again.

here is where i am with it looking through the cuke trellis

and looking back the other way - had to move the weeping spruce that is back here in sick bay out of the way as well as relocate a large arborvite - next to move is three butterfly bushes probably in the spring when i will move out the day lillies and amend the soil - will also have to move around the trees back here that are buried in pots while they "grow up"

That looks great wha!!!

nice Bill

great layout

thx joann

Nice. What would it look like if the Sox won??

it would look the same only taken two hours earlier.

Looking good Bill! : )
Right now my project has been going through my picture files and cleaning them up / editing. I've been trying to get all the files in order so I can see different garden areas change through the spring through fall. I have two done so far. Now if I can get some free space on my pc I will load them to Picasa web albums and share. : ) I have enough editing and organizing of pictures to keep me busy a good part of the non - outside gardening weather! : )

i understand that meredith - the three days i was off line i spent a few hours a day adding to my landscape journal. still have a small bag of tags to go.

You should be proud venu.Great job on the compost bins!. wha it always amazes me how much you get done in a short time.

Great job, Bill. Well done! That will look great when your finished, just like all your other walls.

My bed I was working on is finally all dug and planted. Haven't mulched yet, but I did get the wood chips down on the path. Here it is.

Karen

nice karen - do you have a pile of woods ships left over?

Nice if she does cuz Cousin Nut could go on a luvly sailing trip to celebrate. Your new bed is looking luvly Cousin Nut.

Great job Louise.
Bill I REALLY can't believe how fast you get things done.

done? it has a long way to go the camera must lie - was just going out and now i see rain

Bill, love that compost bin!!! It really does look professionally done. I also think your progress on your new wall is impressive. Do you sleep??? I agree with Jen that you are a really fast worker! Love what you've done with your stone too. After seeing you man-handling that stone and the bench you did for me - not to mention that gorgeous pink stone you nabbed from the woods for me - I'm not surprised your knee is needing some help!!!

thx louise - was hoping that pick quatrz was coming home with me :) it is a keeper and does have a perfiect spot there for you.

Thanks, Bill and Cousin Nut!

Cousin Nut, you're too funny!

Bill, not many wood chips left. Just a small pile. Will use them up shortly.

Karen

Bill - I'll see if I can locate another Pinkie in the Spring, and I'll help you slip it into Cindy's car when "Hank the Quartz Rock Collector" is otherwise detained. LOL

Wow Karen that looks great! Your so lucky to have such pretty red foliage behind it. I need some red in my yard the only thing I have that turns red is a lone Henry's Garnet.

Karen - Your new bed looks fantastic! Like Meredith, I really like the contrasting colors in your yard....what a great job you've done this summer...so much hard work, but it sure has paid off!

Thanks, Louise and Meredith. That red foliage is from a grove of Cornus florida dogwoods that my mother planted there. I think they originally grew from seed. Also there's a red barberry shrub by the Japanese lantern back there.

Karen

How nice the projects look! Just talked to my son who's coming over tomorrrow to help with the water in the cellar project---it MAY involve digging out my garden in front of the porch----Help!

Oh, I hope it doesn't come to that!

Karen

That sounds ominous RobinD.

fingers crossed it wont happen

Oh Dear, Marilyn! I hope it turns out better than it sounds!!! Good luck!

Karen - How nice that the dogwoods were from seed and planted by your Mother. I like the barberry too. I wish I had those instead of the burning bushes that we have.

I have wild barberry and I've ripped it out continuously cause it's on the invasive (I testify!) list. Beware, and only put in a non-invasive types.

i have rose glow barberry which is invasive - however as long as i weed them it is easy to keep in check.

There is a native barberry; the Japanese is the invasive one. RD--if the garden plants come out, suggest that you pot them & then sink the pots in the ground when you replant. You can then plant properly next spring. If they are too large you will just have to give them a try bare root. Hope that he can did around them.

I haven't had too much trouble with my barberry seeding in. It does here and there, but like Bill said, they are easy to remove. My neighbor has barberry all along the front of his place, and he has a lot of frontage.

Karen

just in for the day - got a lot done on the wall only about 8 feet left and running out of good rock fast - will have to selectively take some from the veggy garden wall and replace with the left overs. sorry no pictures and i need a masseuse.

Oh, you poor thing! Sorry, can't help you there, either with the rocks or the masseuse. You really do get a lot done once you get going on a project. I, on the other hand, flit from one project to another. My latest one is a case-in-point. I started that bed last fall. Got a lot done, but didn't finish. Did nothing on it all spring and summer. Just now finishing the darn thing. Oh, well, at least I do eventually finish things, if not right away.

Karen

i do that as well - have started to expand a bed i built this spring - all those little seeds i sowed really got pretty big - surprise - however i need more dirt and that will not happen to the spring - walls on the other had can not be left half done - will be listening to the sox on the radio as i try to get it done tomorrow.

Thanks, Iris---we won't know about the porch garden till it rains again----son just used mortar today to patch where the well pipe is---I have 2 rhodos in that garden, plus bulbs, hostas, wintergreen----at this point, don't want to think about it----anyway, I'm exhausted just from having the 3 little darlings running about. And cooking---and cleaning---I second the masseuse, Bill!