Garden Projects

That looks really nice, Karen!

Looking great, Karen!

I have plenty of vinca to pick from!

Your project is looking awesome Karen! How's your back feeling?

venu you had me smiling:)

nice progress karen.

Venu, great job, better imagination! karen, for real, really nice plan. Patti

A really fun read venu! Loved the bear.
Karen your wall and plants area is looking good. A lot of work but a nice payoff at the end. Great job!
My project for today since it is a little squishy from all the rain the other day, is to remove the stone border from the circle bed and trench edge it. The stones do a decent job of holding back the lawn but the trimming and maintenance to keep it looking neat is too much work and even then it looks messy too much of the time so out with the rocks. They also provide a home for those tiny ants that seem to live under every rock.

Luv the driftwood venu. Cousin Nut your new area and retaining wall looks totally fabby! WOWSER you have alot of bigun DLs in pots! Whatcha gonna do with the other DLs in the row?

Yes, me too...that drift wood is lovely!
Karen, now i know where you've been! Looks great!!!

Thanks, everyone!

Venu, my back is not too bad, actually. I feel it more in my legs from all the bending down, cause not only did I do that wall (with Dad's and Richard's help, I might add), but I did a lot of weeding, some digging, so a lot of bending over. My lower back feels it a bit, and I've been having a lot of trouble with my right hip, so that's feeling it, too.

I did all the digging out and leveling for the wall about a month back, so yesterday all I really had to do was place the blocks. My Dad picked them up and placed them, and I just made sure they were level and fit right. I don't like how there are gaps where it curves, but I guess there's nothing i can do about that. I will be getting wood chips next weekend, though I'm thinking maybe pea stone gravel instead. Depends on which one is cheaper. Now I have to dig into the hill the make the second tier for the next wall. I then plan to flatten it out on top and make stairs going up to where there will be a garden.

Cousin Nut, all the potted plants I'm selling. Last year I did not sell many at all. I'm hoping to do better this year.

Karen

Looks good, Karen

Weeze, I was very impressed and entertained by all 'your' hard work. ^_^

Karen, great job. It's great to see the before and after transformations.

My project if I choose to do it (sigh) is to keep everything watered. Of course, I choose to do it, but with this wind it is hard to keep up. We need some rain.

Weeze, you can come next week & build a pond here. Karen, the wall looks great....glad Dad was able to help.

Thanks, you guys! My big project for today was to get a section of one bed finished that I was supposed to finish last year after removing a big Kousa dogwood, but I never got around to it. I finally finished it today and got it all mulched. Here it is.

Karen

I moved a bunch of daffs to that bed, put in snowdrops between them. The butterfly bush will cover them up once it gets to its full size. I couldn't put anything else there, as it would get shaded out by the BB. Then I moved some DL's to this bed and put in couple of new plants.

Karen

Here's a pic showing the new plants, a columbine (on the left behind the DL), a centauria called 'Amethyst Dreams', and a variegated wallflower. This bed is a purple and yellow theme. Still a work in progress. There are some plants down at the other end that don't fit that criteria.

Close-up of the wallflower with the centaurea behind it.

Karen

Cousin Nut that is my VERY FAV bed so far with the ole trunk/branch in the bed! Still working on rockery cleanup. Wha don't look! Somewhere under the runaway thymus are prettiful steppy stones. I will trim and dig out all the rooted thymus and give it to my buds with nibbling deers.

never hide a good stone!!

You weren't sposed to look!

That's a great looking bed....never saw a variegated wallflower, but it's nice.

5 1/2 days and the wall is complete

it ended up being 50' long by 3' high and wide - wish i could bring it home with me - i asked for visiting rights and got a strange look.

Superb!!!

Incredulous! What do you call this one wha?

Some folks have no sense of humor.

A rock is a rock, a stone is a stone and a pebble is a pebble. What do you call a metorite?

i call it "doc wall" dnut.

funny marilyn - i was talking with diana at topiary gardens this afternoon and told her the story - she has gotten the same look after planting a large jm for one of her landscape jobs and asks if she can come by and see it now and then:) you do grow attached to your projects

a metorite

Great name wha.

thx leslie:)

Very nice, Bill! (I would have requested moss and lichen.)

me too! there was none to be had on these rocks

my next project is two walls here - the rocks will come from my wife's friends house and i will bring only rock with lichens and handle with care while transporting.

Buttermilk!

there are all sorts different theories on what makes moss and lichens grow faster including urine - time/shade/moisture is the only sure way.

Urine after a few beers works great. ^_^

Wha, That is a Money Wall if they paid you what they should have. But more likely a Notnuffbucks Wall Great job. I want to see what they do around it. Nothing as good as what you would do with it at home. DH did the buttermilk thing, no real difference than without. Keep Victor away from your house, I hear he isn't house broken.

I spent the day organizing where I was going to plant all our new kids and entering them in my journal. We did plant the new Japanese Maple and moved another one, plus some ferns we dug out of the Vt property. No photos today. We are going to harden them off again tonight as it is still cold. I will plant tomorrow if my mind is willing and if the weather is warmer. The last big project here will be to lay down the paths in the veggie garden, put up the trellis and plant it. Patti

These were what I found when we went to some nurseries off Island. Some of these are plugs in 6 packs but cheap at 3.79 for 6 They did really well last year.

Acer palmatum Peaches & Cream
Achillea millefolium Cerise Queen 6 pk
Aconitum krylovii
Anemone Whirlwind
Anemonopsis macrophylla
Artemisia stelleriana Silver Brocade
Astrantia major Rose Symphony Rosensinfonie
Baptisia var. alba pendula
Cimicifuga japonica Cheju Island
Delphinium Black Knight 6 pk
Delphinium Magic Fountains Dark Blue Dark Bees 6 pk
Delphinium Magic Fountains Pure White 6 pk
Dianthus Coconut Surprise
Digitalis purpurea Dwarf Vanilla
Epimedium x pubigerum Amber Queen
Eryngium Big Blue
Geranium pratense Hocus Pocus
Iberis sempervirens Snow Cushion 6 pk
Jasminum officinale Fiona Sunrise greenhouse
Leucanthemum Osiris Neige
Lupinus Noble Maiden 6 pk
Lupinus Russell Carmine 6 pk
Lupinus Russell's Yellow 6 pk
Malva moschata Alba 6 pk
Pelargonium crispum Prince Rupet Variegated
Primula vialii
Rudbeckia occidentalis Green Wizard 6 pk
Stevia rebaudiana greenhouse

These came from the half price coop from Bluestones and most are in 3 packs.

Achillea Jungfrau
Achillea Paprika
Alcea Creme de Cassis
Alcea Black Beauty
Armeria Ballerina
Aster Bluebird
Astilbe Deutschland
Campanula Coerulea
Campanula Alba
Campanula White Clips
Delphinum Dark Blue
Echinacea Green Jewel
Eryngium Sapphire Blue
Gaillardia Frenzy
Iberis Autumn Beauty
Lobelia Ruby Slipper
Physocarpus Coppertina
Platycodon Mariesii
Salvia nemorosa Dear Anja

my god patti:) i need an invite - after the planting:)

and i did ok on the wall all things considered.

Glad to hear it. Why would they be surprised? Do they thing builders have no pride? guess not!

looks great Bill... Michele told me the moss growing on my wall block was disgusting... SIGH

Hee hee! Individual tastes.

Tell Michele we all said she is CRAZY. Love moss and lichen.