Well, our neighbor with the dozer finally had a spare day/morning, so he showed up at 8 today. While he got started clearing (no pics of the “before” state, let’s just say the grass in this area was more than waist-high to me and the blackberries would have scared off godzilla. Though not, apparently, the […]
Tag: garden
Garden, plants and WEEDS
Here are the pics from this morning, this is the first year the Korean dogwood has really bloomed. I saw a couple bracts last year, but this year it is spectacular. The grasses and weeds in most of the yard are knee-high to me (our babble friend “riemann” would claim that makes it ankle-high to […]
More Garden Pics
These were actually taken the day after the tree pics, but I am only just getting them pulled together! It has been a busy week (again). These first two are the pretty Lewisia in the stidkid’s rock garden. Later in the year, they stop blooming and the plants in the cement blocks begin. And this […]
Garden update
I want to boast about the later-blooming fruit trees: cherry (might actually produce enough for a pie this year), pear, apple and nectarine (though not much hope for fruit there… it has peach-leaf curl). Here are a couple pics of the blossoms. You can tell the family resemblance, I think! From the top: the european […]
Spring? I don’t think so!
And if you look at the expression on this little statue’s face, SHE doesn’t think so either! This was taken this morning!
SPRING!!!! (spring spring spring)
I love spring. I love all the seasons, actually, but spring has so much in it!!! Birds, flowers, trees, sunshine. Yesterday I saw a hummingbird sipping from the redflowering currant in the back… this one in fact: I walked in the garden when I got home this afternoon… at about 10:30 this evening it will […]
Not too soon to think: SPRING!
YES! It is that time of year again! Time to prune, dormant spray, and plan for additions that go in once the spring has warmed enough to support root growth. Today was VERY cold in the morning. Around eleven, when I went out for the second time to the local school there were only two […]