Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Annuals planting time probably could have started full force by now because of an early spring…although I am wary of planting tender annuals when the nights are still chilly.

There, we saw our neighbour Jessika of Starvation Alley Farms and got their attractive new postcards,
Still on the way to Jo’s, we did some planting in Veterans Field in Long Beach:
At last, we arrived at Jo’s at about one thirty.
Jo’s garden
I wish I had thought to take a photo of all the flats of annuals lined up when we arrived. I moved them because we needed to start planting in that area.
We had one lovely little break: Ed Strange, who had been mowing just north of us at the Boreas Inn, came by with his new puppy, whom we had first met on April 23rd..
About five hours after we began:

Allan planted the impatiens down the north side in the area we’d cleared of Bad Aster and Geranium ‘AT Johnson’ (the too rampant pink one) last fall.

Allan waters in some new perennials we had brought with us to also plant. All the geraniums are in along the entry.
Here’s what Jo’s looks like in midsummer, whether or not it is on a garden tour.
Other than puppy love, we had some good entertainment at the end of the evening when the neighbour’s girlfriend rode up on her horse.
I thought, wouldn’t it be great to be young again and have a girlfriend who comes to visit on a horse? After awhile, they all left with the young woman sitting in the back of the truck with the horse, whose name was Goose, placidly following on a lead.
Just as we were finally packed up (and utterly tired), Fred and Nancy from the Basket Case drove by to say hi. They had just had dinner at the Depot’s burger night and knew (from Fred’s morning delivery of the plants) that we would be unable to join them. They were impressed that we had gotten it all done in five hours.
I’d begun the day with a fantasy that we could also get a messy planter in Long Beach completely redone. How silly to think we’d have had time for that.
On the way home we had a look at the hotel at the port that is being restored.

Hotel on Howerton Avenue by the Port: We were thrilled to see the dark grey paint job covering the red.
Many buildings around here are painting the same “beach red”. The story may be apocryphal, but I heard that once years ago there was a big sale on red paint….
Next: annuals planting time continues….
There is too much bending in gardening. No wonder you were tired.
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If I get down, I can’t get up without looking ridiculous trying to find something to hang onto.
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