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It was a gorgeous day here Sunday, Mother’s Day. Low to mid 60sF, clear blue skies, low humidity – just lovely! My husband took me to the garden center, where I was able to replace the plants that I lost this past week due to all the wonky weather. Man that place was crowded! So I spent a little bit of time getting those potted, and I finally got my new perennial in the ground. In general, things are looking fairly decent. A few plants are struggling because of the recent cold snaps, but I do think they’ll recover with enough tender loving care.
Kind of hard to see in the picture, but I found some heavy copper wire for my hanging pots. I got so tired of the twine ropes breaking on me. I’m hoping the wire is more sturdy.
The side patch.
The new section! Not sure what to call it yet – the patio patch? This is the “extension” I was working on a couple weeks ago. Before, the grass went to the edge of the patio, but now I’ve wrapped the patio with mulch and garden fencing. This enables me to get my long pots off the patio, and also gets the square pots out of the front patch. I love the symmetry of how it looks. Bonus, I’m hoping the extra fencing will keep critters and neighbor’s dogs off our patio.
I think this must be my favorite pot, and I’m sure I’ve overloaded it again this year. I love the graceful look of it.
The columbine have been blooming and look pretty
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The newest addition to the perennials – a pincushion plant.
That’s how my garden has been growing this week! How’s yours coming along?
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To see all my pictures from the garden this week,you can click either the link or the image below.Thanks for looking!2017 Garden Weekly 02 | Flickr
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Well, I still haven’t put anything in pots yet. Can you believe we’ve had three frost warnings in the past week?! I’m waiting to see how far the temps drop tonight (Sunday night #3 warning as I write this), in case I need to hurry out and put something over my plants. Typically, when temps get down to the mid 30sF I don’t worry too much. My patio is pretty much out of the elements, and the plants in the ground are close enough to the building to be out of harm’s way. But tonight they were saying it might get down a couple degrees below freezing. So I’m nervous. In the meantime, while I wait for things to warm up a bit, I’ve been doing prep work. I got all my pots ready for their new dwellers. I didn’t clean anything out after last Autumn so that was quite a job. Note to self: don’t do that again you dumbass!
I also got the new “extensions” put down. Woohoo! I wrapped the mulch area around the entire patio and moved many of the pots from the patio onto the new area. That, in addition to getting rid of the grill, should make the patio seem a tad more roomy.
I got some new wire for the hanging pots. Hopefully that will eliminate the problem of the pots falling off the hangers when I water them!
Plus, I want to move my lavender plant to a different spot in the little front patch, but that has to wait until all this “freeze warning” crap is over. Go AWAY Winter, it’s time for you to go home now, seriously!
Nice sun glare, huh? I’m so glad I got those big square pots out of this front patch though. They felt like a distraction somehow.
Clean up clean up! I got all the Autumn leaves cleaned out of the little side patch under the bedroom window. What a mess!
It’s a wrap! New fencing and mulch all the way around now! I love how the pots look.
Hopefully, all the plants will be in their new pot homes by next week. *fingerscrossed*
Will you be gardening this year?
The gardening season is back! Woohoo!! It is officially Week 0, lol, as I have picked up the plants I’m going to put into my little garden this year. I have plans to expand a little, too, so we’ll see how that turns out.
With the exception of the April A-Z Challenge, I haven’t been blogging much. To be honest, I feel too guilty to blog when I don’t have equal time to devote to reading other blogs. Blogging is about the community, is it not?,. and I don’t feel right hoping for people to read my posts when I can’t reciprocate. Even though the kids and I were off from school in March, I spent a good portion of that time trying to re-do some household things. I really want to get a soaping business off the ground, so I took over the kids’ old toy shelf for soaping supplies. (mean mom! lol) That meant going through their old toys and getting rid of things they didn’t play with anymore, moving the stuff they’re keeping to the new shelf I got them for their room, moving many of the soaping supplies I had in the laundry closet to the new shelf, and trying to reorganize the whole kit-and-kaboodle. I still have a few things to tweak, covering boxes and labeling containers, but I think I am mostly there.
The next couple of weeks though – plants! It’s been raining for days so the ground is super slushy, which should make digging in it nice and easy on these old knees.
See all the pretty darlings I got for this year? I can’t wait to get them into their new pot homes!
