More Garden Nonsense

The yard is all tided up and ready for simple summer things like maintenance, few new plants here and there, watering, pruning, enjoying. No more big projects. The last was covering the back slope of the vegetable garden with weed blocker stuff, plastic mesh that is supposed to allow only thing things you cut holes in it to grow there...it's mulched (as are the other beds), it's got three different ground cover plants started on it and it's got a soaker hose around it to see if I can cut down on water use this summer. It might change position. Right now I figure that it's on the hill, the water will soak into the ground and trickle down to the garden. But I fear it won't soak all the way to the edge so I might weave it through the rows, if it's long enough. We shall see.



The beds are looking well. I pulled a trailing rose from the front of the fence to the back in the new bed, mulched and added some alyssium for ground cover.


The side yard got all neatend up and the hosta is looking lovely this year.


There are new additions to the bed by the porch, you can't see them here. There are 8 new little dahlia starts to go with the dahlia I planted last year which is just beginning to return. Another thing you can't see is the plant I thought wouldn't come back this year. I can't remember it's name, but it had fuzzy leaves and purple flowers and was lovely. I was going to plant a columbine there, but lo! it had little sprouts underground. Annuals may be showy, but perennials are like magic things that you don't expect and POOF there they are.













New additions to the bed: a blue geranium and something called white butterflies or something (have to find it's real name.. ) it's got spotty green and red leaves that are very cool and it will get big with little white flowers that look like butterflies, i guess. It's a cool looking plant. Both are perennial. Also some more alyssium and some ground cover left over from the hillside and chives. Two columbines as well, I love columbine. You might notice there are upside down wine bottles...they are fill of water, sort of an automatic watering system. Another thing I am trying this summer, you can use anything like that to do this, houseplants too, water bottles, soda bottles, beer bottles..just fill with water and invert quickly into soil ( like, stab it into the soil.), reusing and saving water, yay!













close ups of some flowers in Photographia.