Garden Projects

Finished planting my front garden

Nice!

Looking from the side

nice work Jen.. can't wait to see the photos later

I know, I was so excited while I was planting it. Hubby was just shaking his head.

Very prettiful flowerjen. Me too voting for later pics.

Those new stones of yours are great, Bill. I'm jealous! Your wall for the doc is coming out great, as usual. Why am I not surprised? You must be all muscle and not an inch of fat on you at all.

Your new garden looks good, Jumper.

I did not know a fake wasp's nest would keep other wasps away. I'll have to get one for my place.

Your place is looking good, Celeste. Like that wall and all the trillium. I have only one lonely trillium. Nice arbor, too. Great pic of you with your poop! I get the stuff that's aged, so it doesn't smell. Maybe not as good as a fertilizer, but it makes great soil conditioner and great mulch, too. No weed seeds!

Your garden's looking nice, Pat.

Patti, I went to that daff tour/show and primula show last year, and it was fantastic! I ran into Kathy (boojum) while I was there. Bought a few treasures there myself. I just love pimulas, too, and I want a whole bunch more. I got 2 in trade from a friend in my garden club. Don't know the names, but they sure are pretty. You are quite the prepared one with your suitcase. I always carry a plastic shower curtain in my car for whenever I need to buy plants. Saves it from getting all dirty.

Cousin Nut, you are quite the prepared one, too, with your gloves, trowel and rocks. I'm going to have to put a pair of gloves and a trowel in my car, too. Must be standard equipment. And rocks, when I see ones I want to bring home with me.

Ric, I hope you can get your neighbor to place those rocks for you. Sounds great!

Jen, your front garden looks very nice!

Karen

Cousin Nut how savy about the shower curtain.

Thanks! Wasn't my idea, originally. I got the idea from a gardening mag, don't remember which one now.

Karen

I have one lonely trillium, too....am looking at more primroses for the shade garden....found a jack-in-the-pulpit coming up in a perennial bed...no idea how it got there!

Drooooool over a volunteer jack-in-the-pulpit.

Got most of the Deer Resistant order planted.

Everyones projects are coming along just amazingly well.
Patti continues to plant up a storm. Just imagine the blooms this summer.
Good luck with getting those blocks in place Nuts4DLs, looking forward to pics.
Love that arbor pixie and some good corn eatin' your future too.
And Bill just wears me out, another great wall of wha. OMG!
Jen's front garden is very pretty and will only get more beautiful as the season continues and I hope Ric gets his help with planting those rocks.

Congrats on most all the planting accomplished Victor. Hope to get a few things in around here tomorrow.

Hope the back is better, Pat.

Thanks, Pat.

I am over the planting marathon as of 9:30 this morning. Got everything in that had leaves. We will do the lilies and a few other summer bulbs when we get back.

We got on the noon steamship and drove to Vt this afternoon. We stopped in Littleton for more rabbit fence. Now I am more worried about the those lily beetles than the bunnies. Haven't seen any more, but if there is one, there are no doubt many. Conveniently the fence place is reasonably close to Johnson's in Groton, so we had to stop for Ice cream. Then I waved at Wha's road as we drove past while on Rt 119 which we took all the way to Brattleboro rather than driving up Rt 2. Beautiful drive.

I have lots of tulips and narcissus still out up here.

Flowerjen, nice looking new bed. I know that look you got from your DH. It is universal.

Nutsfordayliliesandlotsofotherplants, I was hoping to go with Boojum to the Tower Hill show this year as she told me all about it last year. Perhaps next year we can all go together. I enjoyed meeting the Primula people and buying some sweet little gems from them. I do hope they do well. I have had mixed results. Some thrive and some die.

I met a nice women selling plants at Tower Hill that has a nursery in Vt which we may drive up to this weekend, but it is a good 2 1/2 drive. I think it looks worth an even longer drive. http://rockydale.wordpress.com/welcome-the-beginning/ I will report back if we get up there. It sounds like a place for Victor and Wha to visit. Lots of conifers and alpines. Patti

looks like a great stop Patti

Yes - sounds nice!

What a pretty nursery.

Before we left Nantucket yesterday, I ran around and snapped some long views. Patti

another. Patti

View of part of the Japanese Maple bed. Patti

Looking at the other end of it. Patti

Looking north out the west gate. Patti

My goodness Patti, your garden is looking just lovely. All those bulbs are wonderful. I am envious of you getting all your mulch down already. My back is a little better and took some pain killers so I hope to get a couple things stuck in today and see how it goes. Every view of your garden is so pretty and inviting.

Ngam, thanks, but I must admit that not putting down the mulch is my mother's day gift from my DH. He hires some guys to do it. I paid for the 25 yards of mulch, but he is paying for the help. We have about 4 yards left to do ourselves in areas that I wasn't ready yet for them to do. But we are now ready to finish putting down the mulch next week.

I also have a bed on the west side in the woods that I want to enlarge the back edge a tad too, but didn't want to tell DH. I will do that on the sly and then mulch it when he isn't around. My excuse is that we lost a ton of shade when we took down some dead pines and now I Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeed to plant some shrubs to protect my little plants from the afternoon west sun. I might as well add some depth to that bed to plant some shrubs, don't you think? I think I hear a chorus chanting, yes. Patti

Gorgeous, Patti. Don't know how you can do it!

I couldnt hack that much gardening at all. Its lovely and I would not mind if I could pay someone to do it!

Beautiful Patti!

I love your long shots. I am in the back row, chanting YES, very loudly!!!

YES PATTI! YES PATTI! Your garden is looking luvly as it moves from the spring bulbous burst to the early summer swoosh.

Very pretty & inviting, & of course you need to expand the bed!

Wonderful Patti! How much do you charge for admission these days?

Just Lovely Patti. Ric

Marylin, I get many Jack-In-The-Pulpits volunteering here for me. I love them. I'd like to get more unusual ones, but they're very pricey.

Patti, that nursery in VT sounds really nice. Let us know what it's like if you get there. Your gardens are spectacular. I can't keep up with you. I need to have some people help me with the mulch. Would be nice. I'm one of your chanters, chanting, "YES, PATTI!"

Someone here mentioned last year about a nursery in VT that sells flats of perennials at good prices. I wanted to get there last year but never made it. Could anyone tell me what the name of the place was? I think it might have been mentioned in the "What have you purchased for 2009" thread.

The other day I got a large order from Seneca Hills Nursery. This was my first order, and I am very pleased with the quality of the plants. They arrived in great condition, too. They were packed very well. I just got an email from Ellen, the owner, saying she is stopping the retail mail-order end of her business. I had her add me to her list for ordering flats for wholesale. I hope to get my plant business official within 2 years, and I want to be able to offer my customers more stuff than what I can grow just here, as I don't have any greenhouses, and no money or room for one at this time.

Karen

I think it was me. Truthfully I cant remember. I know I went to this place.

http://www.allenbrothersfarms.com/index.html

i have about a 1/2 left to finish up the wall - a bit jealous that this is not in my yard!

this is one side that is complete - i like the two rocks at the end that i rolled out of the woods a lot.

a shot of the other side - base is complete on the right just need to find some good stone the the pile of rock behind the wall to finish

This message was edited May 8, 2010 10:45 AM

one side rock note - the large granite post that i had to leave behind is GONE! Noticed yesterday driving home it was not there - really p'd off as i had a friends pickup truck lined up to try and retrieve it next week