Garden Projects # 15

I like Pumpkin Time! I have dug Kwansa out of the garden several times, & it always comes back....digging it again this week! I like fall for moving DLs, too, Pam......if you want any from my garden, I will actually be home a few days this coming week, & next.....just give me a holler.....

Karen and I ought to go to rehab together for wasp stings! Today it was my turn. Hope YOURS is better.

all these stings and bites!

I got bit by what I think was a spider on the inside of my arm, didn't see it but who knows, my arm immediately broke out in a rash and my hand swelled up, cleaned it with alcohol and took some benedryl...and I was fine...weird...I do still have a little spot at the site where I got bit

No stings or bites today. :-)

I've just fallen in love with a pale pinky lavender Daylily with a yellow throat, it was blooming at an event we went to this afternoon. I have the perfect spot for it... Now all I have to do is find it. No name, of course!

Marilyn, maybe we can find a time to visit soon, I know you have some beauties!

that's a sweet one

Very pretty....so hard to find a true pink...most have peach or lavender undertones.....Sounds like a plan, Pam.....I'm usually home on Fridays....

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try looking up 'Corryton Pink' , 'Pink Chick' daylily

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I think there's some lavender in the ones I saw. It's hard to tell because of the way the light is hitting the blossoms in the picture I took, but I think those two are darker. I'm hoping to get to Bloomingfield's Daylily Farm on Friday, maybe they'll have an idea...

Also the one I was trying to think of all day yesterday......'Catherine Woodbury' it's an older DL .

Thanks, Pixie....you are a great resource!

Thanks Pixie, that looks really close! Pictures vary so much it's hard to tell for aure. I'm trying to think of a way to find out from the owner.

I've been admiring Catherine Woodbury. It's on my want list.

weeds are bad out there - will not be able to have them cleaned out when louise and hank show up this weekend.

Oh no, my eyes!

LOL, I want to see a picture of these so called weeds in your yard

Oh, yeah....me, too! I've cleaned out 4 gardens....the rest are so bad, I don't know where to start!

I am unable to take a picture of weeds - it goes against every fiber in my body

I feel the same way... Unfortunately, they sneak in somehow anyway...

^_^ hee hee

Sadly even the weeds have weeds here. The areas I got done before just have one layer of weeds.

Right!

Finished a project today, a new path. I killed the grass weeks ago, but didnt get to it and it all gre back. So two weeks ago I sprayed it again, started on it last week, and got it finished today.

The reason for it is this: we have no place to appreciate smaller and more subtle spring bloomers from inside the house. We don't stop to notice them on the way in and out, and those areas are so root and rock filled that there's not room to plant enough of anything to make a good picture.

So far I've only planted red-leaved Heucherella Copper Cascade as groundcover, but I'd like to put early species red tulips to bloom with the quince, and some hellebores at least.

Pic 4 is the view from the kitchen window, the first time I killed the grass this spring.

I love how the path makes the space look more intimate and private.

The path came out really nice, Pam....good choice for the tulips....they'll stand out!

Add iris reticulata?

NICE!!!!!

Very very pretty.

I like how the path turned out

nice pam

here are the pictures of the massive rodo trimming - picked up 10 feet or more of space assuming I can keep them to size - going to try and keep them so the lower branches can be seen

here is the latest wall re-build - making it straight and wider to match the wall in the distance - after a slow start last weekend made about 15' of progress this weekend.

It's amazing what a determined person can achieve.

I felt pretty good about what I've done, though no actual walls, just a lot of rocks to unearth. Since Scott's garden soil is on sale at the Waltham Tru value hardware store, I have been filling my trunk every chance I get. This weekend, with DH to help me cart them up the hills I got another 50 cu feet of soil distributed and some shrubs planted. Some of the digging unearthed dump sites with rocks and glass. The sandy soil just gobbles up the new stuff. If I get enough of this soil, it may be possible to grow some caryopteris right in the ground. Pictures later.

I can see all kinds of bulbs under those rhodos, Bill.....nice work on the wall.....Rosemary, Doesn't anyone deliver soil to your area? Sounds like you need a few dump truck loads........

When the earth shakes here I know it must be Bill chasing rocks.

Rosemary with your countless bags of dirt, and wha with your perpetual stonework... Talk about determined!!! I feel like a dilettante (just kidding ;-) ).

I think we all belong to the same club :)

Lol, Iris......Bill is a true rockhound......My son has a huge pile....I'm just waiting for him to start with the walls!

Marilyn, there is noone who will take a small enough vehicle up my hill to dump the soil. I can get trucks to dump in my driveway but then we still have to get it up the hills, hence my DH is my avatar because he played with a Dingo tractor last spring to dump some dirt. My property is basically built into three rather difficult slopes. Course we bought the house because we thought it was rather scenic and a good half acre of land is a rather big parcel around here. The bags are the cheapest and the easiest way to move the dirt, which isn't saying it's so easy.

I took today off work and got a flowering oregano, a culver's root, a Munstead lavender, a coreopsis, New Jersey Tea, and an unusual evergreen ferny bush from Lazy S nursery (I think if spelled correctly X pyrocanthes) into the ground. Some of them got as many as eight bags of soil dug into the sand around them, so it was rather useful to tote the bags.

The area around what I hope will finally become a couple different large viburnums plicatum f. tomentosum and v. plicatum f. plicatum 'Popcorn' doesn't look quite so empty, already.

Leaving early tomorrow for Wash DC for some work-related training. I kept one day open to visit the national mall (I think it is probably safe now) so I hope to report upon what is new at the botanic gardens

in Colorado and on one of my business meetings at Seagate they had two rock balances with metal rods holding them together which you could not see similar to the one I made in their large reception area - receptionist turned out to be a rock person and is going to send me pictures - I was not allowed as it is against the rules on site - they paid $2500 for these

thought mine was better although theirs used larger stones and some kind of glue to help the rods with stability and were on a pink granite 4' tall pedestal

receptionist is supposed to email me pictures - we'll see

Anything made with NE rocks would be different. Some of the rocks we drive by is slightly pinkish.

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