Here’s what’s blooming this morning… Above, the zucchini started blooming yesterday. There are two good sized blossoms on each plant, and quite a few buds. The cukes are blooming, too, but their flowers are shy, and hidden behind a lot of greenery. Oh, and tomatoes. Lots of flowers on the tomatoes. At left, the lantana […]
It stopped raining for a few days, so I’ve been whaling away on the front yard. Here’s the progress: This is the new bed, just to the left of the front door. I transplanted one of the two rosemary bushes, and both coreopsis from the other side of the walkway, and the yellow rose bush […]
It’s been raining a lot here for the last couple of weeks, so there hasn’t been a lot of progress in the garden. I have managed to sneak out a couple of times, and add to the rocks and mulch in the front shade bed. I’ve also started to edge it with bricks, and start […]
It’s still raining off and on here, but in between showers, I managed to mow half the backyard yesterday, and snap a few pics. There are some mysteries popping up in the new herb bed… Are these sprouts lettuce, or weeds? I tossed a pack of mixed lettuce seeds in this area before the rains […]
*sigh* It’s raining today, and probably tomorrow and Wednesday, too…The backyard, from the dining room window. Some day, this window will be a door to the backyard—but since that involves cutting through the brick exterior and lifting a double door into place, I have to save up for a contractor rather than do it myself […]
I have a hard time shooting most of the flowers in the front yard, because they’re in full sun. They always seem to come out a little blown out.Gallardia, fat and happy because I ignore it. When I planted it last year, I watered it, and it was so sad looking, I didn’t think it […]
This is the right side of the front yard—proof that gardening is a never-ending job. This bed was planted first, over a year ago. The rosemary took, and grew like weeds, while the coreopsis died to the ground, and is just now coming back. There’s also a steadily growing gallardia. I tore out one rosemary […]
Here’s the backyard, shot from the garage door, which is currently the only access to it. So far, I have two beds full of veggies, and a third ready to be filled with good dirt and herbs.Beyond the veggies, you can see one of the few good landscaping features I inherited from the previous owners: […]
No updates for a couple of days, because it rained slowly and steadily all day yesterday, and has been raining off and on today. It’s supposed to clear up tomorrow, but the ground is wet, wet, wet, so I may not do much planting until mid-week. Perhaps there will be raised bed progress in the […]
Both Livia and I bought ground ivy at Weston Gardens yesterday. I usually don’t buy a new plant until I’ve had a chance to read about it at either the Aggie Horticulture web site, or PlantFiles at Dave’s Garden. The latter is great for finding out how real gardeners feel about plants. Well, I didn’t […]
The vegetable garden in the backyard is coming right along. Yesterday, I planted the cukes and zucchini in the small square bed, and added the metal trellis. This afternoon, I put in the bamboo and string lines, which is what I’ll use to train the vines, since the metal will get too hot for them. […]
New today, and waiting to be planted in the shade bed are these three Mexican Petunias. They’re supposed to grow like weeds and be invasive as hell when they’re in the sun, but not so much when they’re in the shade. I’ll plant them spaced out, and away from the other plants, and see what […]