Garden Projects #4

Happy anniversary to Celeste & Brian! You look like newlyweds to me!

NICE
Happy Anniversary!


Worked on the berm today, halfway done....geez lots of work with just me to do it. Probably would have gotten it all done but had to clean off and go pick up my son from school

Awe, thanks Pirl! We've been together for 25 years but have only been married for 17 of those. :)

Thanks Jen!

Happy aniversary Pix. Have a ball with your herbs.

So glad the report was good, Patti! Pixie, happiest of anniversaries to you, you deserve it! I planted rosemary, Italian parsley, & pineapple sage today....my chives are gone, & the oregano took a big hit...one little stalk left. I had chocolate mint, then it disappeared....will get some more.

Thanks Frank & Robin

Happy Anniversary Celeste and Brian! Congrats Patti on the clean bill of health! Lots of good stuff happening!!

Congrats on the clean bill, Patti! Maybe 10,000 bulbs this fall!

Congratulations Celeste & Brian. We're a month away from our 20th. Thought I'd be out for good behavior by now.

Thanks Weeze & Victor!

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Congrats Celeste. Looks like you need sage, lavender, tarragon plus a few annual herbs. I made the mistake of planting lemon balm and bronze fennel years ago and they took over the world. Loved them, but like mint, invasive. I adore Lemon Verbena and Bay, but have to bring them inside as I do my Rosemary.

Victory, I think you are in for life, hope so. I made a brief mistake in my 20's before finding a keeper in 1976, who I married a couple years later and I am not planning on any changes and hope he is not either.

Overcast and cool, so not jumping up and running out to the garden yet. But I did get a box of lovely Siberian Iris and a few Japanese Iris that I ordered from Siberian Iris Gardens (PollyK) as well as a bunch of bonus ones that she sent(overly generous) to plant out in our new bed. Dh got a great jump on the veggie bed while I was in NYC and he is out to plant seeds already this morning.

I need to go look at paint colors this morning for the design job I am doing in NYC, There is a color that she likes, but looks way too brown for my taste on the computer and as she is having seconds thoughts about using one we chose while I was in NYC, I need to see this chip in person. I might just have to look at their selection of plants and seeds while there. Though they don't sell many and won't have much in yet. Conveniently, to get to the lumber yard/paint/and garden center, I have to drive by one of our local farms and they do sell lots of plants. Paint and plants. Good plan. Patti

Sounds like an ideal Sat., Patti! Don't want to weed today...too dry....but showers are in the forecast for the next week, so hopefully, I'll get to do it soon....have a flat of snapdragons to plant today..

Happy Anniversary, Celeste and Brian!!!

Congrats Celeste!!!... nice loot!!!!

Happy Happy!!!
Here is the bane of my gardening existence leaving for good.....the tree not the hubby!

Thank you Patti, Jan, and Allison! We had a great day despite the rain. :)

Assembled the new square and trough planters. Very simple. Look good. Now have to get lots of potting spoil to fill them. Hard to find soil now that does not have the crystals in it! Don't want that in a self-watering planter.

Wow, large tree, Dem! I agree, Victor....most potting soil is altered.....

ordering mulch this week - here is the new bed - still have many hosta's to plant.

and another very large bed - i have broken my rule and decided to plant out the "wild" section going back to the pond - have 4 dogwoods. hydrangea's, eskimo sunset, a bunch of ilex, vib's and other assorted stuff in this bed.

I can't get over the scope and beauty of SOJ's project--that big a hillside would overwhelm me, and it turned out so great.
Wha (Bill, right?), yours looks good too, and glad to see NO red mulch. I can't get over the craze for dyed mulch. To me, it is so ugly. Got lost going to a new place for (natural) mulch (Google directions turned out to be for another road of the same name in another part of town...) but eventually got a trailer-load worth of nice stuff, that I would spread if it would only stop raining.

I would love a bed like that, Bill!

Very nice, Bill. That's about the size of the shade bed I am finishing up.

thanks

Thanks Granite. I took a (blurry) pic of the creeping phlox in almost full bloom the other day. I bought 75 teensy tiny plants from classy groundcovers and planted them last May. I can't believe how much it's filled in already! I just wish the bloom period wasn't so short - and this rain is probably going to finish them off even faster than usual. Sigh.

New bed looks great Bill. I see lots of JMs :) Happy belated anniversary, Celeste!

christina where did you get the rocks?

victor the famous 1/4 acre must be growing with age:) that bed is at least 30 yards long and over 15 yds deep.

Got a lot of them from a place we found on craigslist. Loaded truck for about 100. Some were "Recued" from construction sites. I think we had to buy a pallet or two to finish it up.

Looking good Bill!!!
I'm with you Christina, wish the bloom time was longer on the phlox

However, the little 'peppermint twist' phlox I bought last yr is really spreading well.

New beds look great.
Phlox look like they had grown there for 10 years.

It's a beauty, SOJ.....

So, beautifil, Songs, seeing everything filling in. Very inspiring.

One of my projects this spring is refurbushing an old stone wall.Got a collection of various Sempervium,some really neat and plugged the gaps with top soil and planted the Semps there.I like it

That sounds lovely, gamekeeper......

I like that idea.

I was thinking of taking on this project this summer. Looks cool, I think. And I happen to have the major item needed languishing in the garden shed.

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=8476907

awesome!!!

That's neat!!!

I've been following that thread. Very interesting! Someone also had seen something similar made from pallets. Have fun with it!