A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat Carly's Garden Journal - May 2k7

Those flowers are as big as melons!

Ahhhhh! Ain't spring grand?

Thanks, Penny - there's three of them today.

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thunder;
green mist rises
. . . rain falls on the new seeds
. . . gardeners hustle for cover

Two more syllables need to complete the end of that cinquain.

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I'm on a project - have just planted the dried deadheads from last fall, along the fence garden and it's getting watered. The song 'Just in Time' plays through my mind.

My cart's sitting outside the back door, my duck shoes alongside, taking cover under the overhang.

I'm anxious to get back out there - I've been doing a lot of thinking about that island, that slope and all that bloody clay that inhibits the growth of grass and ground cover.

I've decided to give it up. The hale with it! I'm just going to let it do what it's going to do and work up the other side.

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Here is the spot that I call 'Morning Glory Patch'. I have planted no morning glory seeds this year - but I'm still calling it that, as I'm inclined to do with all my garden patches.

I have seedlings that are coming along nicely in there. Soon I'll be able to thin them out and use the extras in other spots.

But right now, I'm bound to do something about that big wide grey expanse of nothing down the rest of the fence length.

I have acquired some railway ties - the guy next door is slowly getting all the scrap wood out of his garage and Jeff brought the railway ties over.

I'm preparing the area to line it with those pieces of wood. First I'm lifting the surface soil out, and dumping it on top of my mulching square to mingle with the leaves and become whatever it plans to become.



Doesn't matter if it is clay - the worms like it anyways.

(BTW . . . do you know that actually supplied another gardener with fresh worms last summer? Imagine that - I'm raising worms! Ha ha!)

Anyway, this is another slow, painstaking project that will be well worth the work.

I do not know when this storm is going to allow me to go out there again.

I'm wondering if it will put out the power; when we have storms like this, we don't go out - if the power goes out, the security alarms go out and the security company calls demanding to know what's happening - if they don't get an answer, they send the fire department over.

MMM hmmm . . . yeah! Ain't it great managing/superintending property? If we ever come into a big amount of money we're going to try to talk the owners into selling it to us - we might just as well own it.

So, that's my plans for the day - how far I'll get with it, I don't know.

Pictures later, of course.

Gee, it's great to be back!

Lamiastrum - Herman's Pride:

Nettle, Silver, Silver Archangel

http://www.bluestoneperennials.com/b/bp/LAHPS.html

10" high - metallic silver foliage with green veins - yellow flowers in late spring

And we could only get ONE! We hunted all over - 5 different plant stores!

OK . . . all we can do now is keep our eyes open for it.

I'm going to see if it can be propagated - I will save the seeds. I don't think I saved seeds
last year.

Now, wouldn't it be funny if the deadheads I put in today just happened to include those?

Ha ha!

In that spot I'm working on, I think I'll just put goutwort in as Pat thins it from her garden - she's going to do some tomorrow.

I'll help her out with it - she's just recovering from an operation.

Today's work:

wow carly you shure are doing alot of work,

your columbines are so pretty!

I always do a lot of work.

A writing teacher I know, once described me as being 'driven'.

Thanks, Sibyl