Saturday, March 31, 2012

More Garden Cleanup and the Kerria

We are still abnormally warm....and no rain.  That is not a good combination.

I picked a bouquet of lilacs and the fragrance is overwhelming me.....I will have to relocate it when I am at the computer.


I managed to get a couple of hours of garden work done yesterday morning.  It was mostly pruning and string trimming.  I ran out of string and DH said he couldn't find any at Walmart.  I wish he had called me because I am sure a local farm supply, Race Brothers, would have had it.  I plan to go to a nearby Ace Hardware this morning and check.  If they don't have it, we will head back into town. 

I finished the bed in front of the kitchen window which involved string trimming along the edge, pulled more henbit and pruned back the dead stalks of the Endless Summer hydrangea and the hibiscus moscheutos, swamp mallow.

I left some of the moscheutos stalks because the clematis was already climbing up about three feet;  too late for the new (from MIL's garden) wooden trellis.

I have started the  foundation beds.  This is the diningroom porch bed, done to the corner, except for the ongoing weed pulling.

The purple flower is the lunaria (money plant) just beginning.

When talking about things in bloom, I forgot about the kerria!  I don't see how I could have.  It is a brilliant gold and this is its finest year.  This is the double one.


7 comments:

  1. Your pictures were a delight to see this morning as we look out on drizzle and gray heaviness. But that's not a complaint. Even though we got used to the 70 degree temps the last couple of weeks previous to this one just past (unheard of for us here in northern Minnesota this time of year!), we have been under forest fire watch so we'll take all this wet, damp weather we can get! I'll just sneak a peek back at your blog a couple of times today and keep our wood stove inside here crackling away.

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  2. We are wanting more rain too. I didn't realize it was that dry in your next of the woods. I hope you get lots of rain this year. The last time we fired up the wood stove, the house was too hot for three days. It warmed up outside and the firebrick lining of the stove held too much heat. I suspect our fire burning days are over this year.

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  3. Love the Kerria picture-so pretty. Do you like you ES hydrangea? I have been tempted to try one.

    We sure would like some of that rain that is always going north of us!! Not that we are really dry right now, but don't like the pattern we see developing.

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    1. Bev, it took forever for ES to even bloom but finally it has begun. Of course, I don't treat the soil so mine isn't a good blue. I still favor my Annabelle hydrangea. If you are patient, it will eventually reward you.

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  4. Goodness! Is that a honeysuckle blooming away on the porch post? I'll bet that smells heavenly.

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    1. Kris, only I could buy a honeysuckle with zero fragrance. I got it because it is red and was for the hummers....I think there is one that is red that does have fragrance. I keep threatening to get rid of this one but what a job that would be!

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  5. that lilac is beautiful. To bad i can't smell through the computer.

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