There was not much time in our garden this week but what time we had was very productive. Sunday, part of my day off was spent on the pleasant activity of garden touring. When I got home at almost three, a very rained on Maddy greeting me with complaints about the weather.
Calvin had been more sensible and stayed dry on the cat perch.
I am trying to decide which daylilies stay and which will go. This one was in disfavour on Sunday but I thought it looked pretty attractive on Thursday morning…
I must tag the horrid ones so I remember to remove them later. I am thinking, because the flowers are edible, that they had better all stay till after the edible garden tour on August 11th!
My task of the afternoon was to plant all my acquisitions from Saturday’s plant shopping excursion. The light and not too cold rain made for perfect planting weather, negating the need to water anything in. To my disappointment, I found that the still somewhat empty end of the new west side border is still unplantable. It looks enticing but is mostly unbroken down garden clippings on top of newspaper with just a thin layer of soil on top.
Frustrating because I needed more room for my new plants, but I did manage to get them all into soil here and there. I think Cataline ‘Gilded Grape’ Torenia looks wonderful next door to Petunia ‘Pretty Much Picasso’.
Some garden vignettes:
Lots more sun for the potato pile now…spuds grown in debris pile along the east fence. (Someone recently told me that if spuds come back on their own, crop rotation is not an issue. I hope that is true.)
And a few hardy Fuchsias: I love them and have at least thirty different kinds. I got many of them at The Basket Case Greenhouse where you will find an excellent collection for sale.
I got my passion for Fuchsias from my grandma, who grew a few small flowering hardy ones and lots of annual ones, wintered over under lights. She called them her dancing girls.
This is why I keep quitting jobs lately….to try to strike a better balance between being able to pay the bills and yet having more time at home in our own garden.
Tuesday after work I had another garden interlude at home because an intense wind made it unpleasant to work anywhere in Ilwaco or Long Beach. We had gone to a garden a bit inland for about five hours. When we got home, the wind had blown alder leaves and even a few Oriental poppy petals all the way over the low roof of the garage and into the driveway.
I thought that I would stay indoors and work on catching up on the blog (which is running about three days behind); then suddenly the wind died down enough to weed outside without fear of falling tree limbs, and Allan got the lawn mowed, even unto the bogsy woods.
My photos of our garden from that day were taken before work:
Tomorrow: The week in work, and maybe then I will be caught up just momentarily.
“Caught up momentarily” …. Hope you can enjoy the feeling – momentarily 🙂
It is all looking quite lovely! I think I shall incorporate your edible garden secret – neglecting to harvest the chard! That sounds like one even i could manage!
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I love the fuchsias.
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I had a feeling you would appreciate them!
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