It is a very dark morning here, just light sprinkles so far. We fear it is going around us from north to east which is whats happens so often to these storms.
I will be heading out to milk in this very shortly.
I have talked before about our front ditch that is no longer mowable and barely trimmable since they resurfaced the road and made the incline so sharp. I decided to plant some vigorous self-seeders and spreaders and let them fight out the weeds and grasses and hope the prettier ones win. I am happy with how it is working so far.
I already had the pink flower, oenothera speciosa, a wonderful self-seeder, the iris were already planted and I have a good stand of both major and minor vinca. There is also some Dame's Rocket started.
This is the west end. I did do some trimming up on the yard level that you can see by the different color on the grass.
This is a particularly heavy patch of the oenothera right at the pavement edge.
I wish I knew how to show a view of the entire front ditch by stitching the pictures together.....but I don't.
There are still lots of grasses and a few broadleaved weeds that I will dig out by hand before they seed,but pretty much I am leaving it alone. I have some lemon balm to move up there and more sprigs of the vincas.
I was happy to the see the two Bonica shrub roses are coming back from the stumps. They were so dead I had them cut to the ground....another benefit of buying own-root plants.
This is a great shrub rose, but no fragrance. I did have some RRD which is why I removed it.....be interesting so see if the new growth will have it too.
Lightening is getting fierce so I am going to publish without proofing! Good luck.
I am unplugging the computer now.
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| From April 2012 Blog |
I will be heading out to milk in this very shortly.
I have talked before about our front ditch that is no longer mowable and barely trimmable since they resurfaced the road and made the incline so sharp. I decided to plant some vigorous self-seeders and spreaders and let them fight out the weeds and grasses and hope the prettier ones win. I am happy with how it is working so far.
I already had the pink flower, oenothera speciosa, a wonderful self-seeder, the iris were already planted and I have a good stand of both major and minor vinca. There is also some Dame's Rocket started.
This is the west end. I did do some trimming up on the yard level that you can see by the different color on the grass.
This is a particularly heavy patch of the oenothera right at the pavement edge.
I wish I knew how to show a view of the entire front ditch by stitching the pictures together.....but I don't.
There are still lots of grasses and a few broadleaved weeds that I will dig out by hand before they seed,but pretty much I am leaving it alone. I have some lemon balm to move up there and more sprigs of the vincas.
I was happy to the see the two Bonica shrub roses are coming back from the stumps. They were so dead I had them cut to the ground....another benefit of buying own-root plants.
This is a great shrub rose, but no fragrance. I did have some RRD which is why I removed it.....be interesting so see if the new growth will have it too.
Lightening is getting fierce so I am going to publish without proofing! Good luck.
I am unplugging the computer now.
