Welcome to the next thread of come and sit a spell!
My garden - lets see I am working on two new huge beds that will leave only a little oval of grass in the middle of the yard left for the back!! Then next year... hehehe.... the lawn can just get smaller and smaller and ... you get the idea. The oval right now will be about ohhh 15 feet across by 10 or so feet deep... made smaller every year by... ohhh 5 feet or so and the back yard will be done!! I took out a huge berm picked the weeds out and it made a great raised bed - a lot of work but the lawn looks soooooo much better for it... Getting ready to get a few Iris in too (30 or so) coming from some great DG trades from up North - hope they make it in our heat! to fill one of the new beds - adding to that my new Mealy Sage I just learned was a native!!
So what is happening in your garden?
Come Sit A Spell - End of May
This is favorite time in the garden...The Lilies are all blooming..The daylilies are starting to put out their blooms one by one..lol... The Brugs have started setting bloom pods..The petunias have just gone wild. I can't keep up with them...
Hostas are all up nicely now.. I finished up some containers just waiting for them to fill out.. The hummers are buzzing everywhere...
The weather lately has just been awesome... Every morning there something new to see... I bought some stepping stones Sat. so now I can get busy putting them in the Brug bed.. Now if I could just get the Armadillo that has been rooting up my yard all would be great....
Ronda
This will be my first year with the Brugs... I have 6 all in pots - I hope they bloom.... I really want them to bloom!
My first daylily bloom of the year appeared yesterday. I've got several kinds of salvia blooming, some roses (Cecile Brunner, Ballerina, and others) are still blooming and I've got a week to get more stuff done in the garden before I go back to work.
Hi everyone,
About three weeks ago I bought a whole bunch of pentas. I was determined to have more pentas for butterflies this year, worked into a bed that that seems ideal for them - I had a few last year, wanted more this year. I finally just planted the last of them, poor things were having a hard time toughing it out in their little 4" pots. But now I think the bed looks a little "clownish", lots of different, bright colors, kind of willy-nilly out there. I admit I just wanted to get them in the ground at this point, but now I'm not sure I like this at all!
Oh well, I guess at least they can grow in the ground until I figure out where I want to move them to...
So pics please!
I'm sitting for a spell...sapped of strength. Excuse the gardening pun.
We finally got rain. My yard needs mowed. They're working me to death at work.
I get a day off from the wildscape greenhouse tomorrow, so I will be planting some coneflowers and datura, and doing some watering.
Anyone but me find it relaxing to work in the PLantFiles when all stressed out from work?
I have watered nearly nonstop this week and really, really wish we could get some soaking rains before the REAL summer sets in. The insurance adjuster finally came yesterday to assess damages to the house and pickup from the hail storm a few weeks ago. I guess I should be careful what I wish for!
Our constant state of drought was interupted this morning by one of our frequent flooding deluges. I am most pleased and the evergreen wisteria is too.
It has been raining here since last nite and my outback north forty backyard looks like a lake...all the chickens are up here in my backyard on high ground..so no watering for me a while since I have that black spongy gumbo soil...sigh...but my brugs are loving all the water..hoping for more blooms!!
Debbie, that evergreen wisteria looks great! you lucky ducks, with all that rain.
No rain here yet, but they say it is coming up from the Houston area, I hope so.
Josephine.
Like I always say....Here in Texas we garden in a constant drought, frequently interupted by flooding deluges.
Can you imagine how the pioneers felt trying to tame this land? I'm ever grateful we only have to do it for pleasure.
lucky you. I've gotten just a sprinkling, enough to drop the temps from 90 to 85. Well, I guess I better not complain, it could be NOTHING!
I start every day by going on a tour of my yard about 7:00 AM. That generally raises my spirits. Then I go to the three front beds to fix what the armadillos have dug around and through. This week they have dug up a red ruellia a friend gave me three times. I've replanted it carefully, and watered it each time. It's survived so far, and still blooming. That's better than I can say for the chile petin, which died despite TLC. I repair that damage, pull bermuda and nutgrass, and enjoy a cup of coffee while watching birds.
Then I do whatever outside. This week I pruned my Mermaid roses up off the ground, for the second time since March, and cleaned out from under them (pesky pecan and hackberry seedlings, mostly). I did my weekly pruning back of Virginia creeper on the house, to keep it off the fascia and soffit boards. I pull up all the bind weed vines that have crept onto shrubs, that I missed on my weeding because they are under the shrubs. I soaker hosed all my beds. One of my dogs gets so frustrated at being unable to catch squirrels that are laughing at her from the trees that she destroyed my drip system, pulling the hoses out and chewing them up. She also chewed my water hoses to pieces, despite the fact that I made a small cage to keep them in. (She's very sneaky about this; I haven't yet managed to catch her in the act.) Now I have a hose reel and hose, and I took out the soaker hoses that I had stored and use them. I also watered the grass. (Oh, what will my water bill be!) I watch birds and smell the roses.
This is the time of year that my yard looks best. The grass is not suffering hugely, almost all the roses are showing off, the salvias are all blooming, and the bermuda grass and weeds are mostly at bay. Today I started cutting a fragrant bouquet of roses, and it started to rain. I danced for joy until I was soaked, and sat on the porch and watched it rain. What a nice day!
What a nice day it was or is ... I was up at eight am and outside! I decided to tackle the exstension of the soaker hose (50ft) myself. I mean really, you get more satisfaction out of doing yourself and it the way you want it. So what if there fifteen of twenty loops out there...it will evrntually lay down. lol did some cuttings. Ran to the store to get more styrofoam cups and saw all these wonderful stumps where a tree had been cut down ... put on breaks to stop the car and tried to pick one up ... it wasnt happening! ...being nice i tried to ask someone about them, they claim they spoke no english, another said (Ithink) that someone was coming to get them. yeah! sure! I said to myself .... as soon as I see three or four of those homeless men out ... I am going to offer them a couple of bucks and those stumps are all mind! lol
I highly recommend them as garden art Sylvia....
You can at least see mine now that the ragweed, dewberry vines (you need steel-plated garden gloves to remove those things), and nut grass has been removed. lol
Debbie
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can't figure out how to get repeat pic off.....
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...and they are half moon shape, I need those to hold up the retaining wall and I could sit pots on them too. I would like to hollow one out and make a planter out of it. I sure wish I had a dolly.... or what ever that thing is you use to move stuff when its heavy. I really need a man around. lol
Still sitting a spell here,
I too am working to reduce erradicate to turf in the back, but time will tell all truths. Had to wait till payday to get more compost and mulch for new beds. Just started project this year so lots of open space. Quit watering back yard so grass could die. know concentrating on the veggie garden and new beds. Waiting , Waiting, will payday ever come.
And am coming unglued anticipating the Austin tour this june 8th. I have a few plants to find and maybe trade for. Plus, I get to meet some DGers for the first time. Big small family if your know what I mean.
calvin
I sure would love to come to Austin. I got a lot of friends there too, but I spent too much going to college Station. I got replenish my savings account. lol Next year for sure.