Dynasty…

01 Wednesday Jun 2022

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great wander around the garden before the rain a few days ago…

excited to discover the milkweed is growing in the ground and in the planter where it did very well last year…

it appears that one of the dahlias may be poking through the soil…

and most exciting of all, the Monarch Dark Dynasty Butterfly Bush has new growth on it… this is huge as I’ve tried to overwinter them before without success…

right now only one of the pair shows any signs of buds, although that one came outside earlier than the other… fingers crossed…

nurseries…

27 Friday May 2022

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well, well, well… went plant shopping with Hilda the Gardener…

basically it took the entire day and we went to five different nurseries…

what fun… she knows where all the best plants are at each location and has a great sense of what looks good together…

I was also happy to discover that three of them had pond plants and I was able to get a container with three different plants in it…

once we had purchased everything (lol) we had lunch out and discussed our plans…

planting is likely going to happen on Saturday, unless I decide to start on the planters around the deck… although I’m not sure I remember which plants are going where;-)…

just after we unloaded all the loot and I had come into the house it poured for about half an hour…

great timing on our part…

rooting…

20 Friday May 2022

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spent a delightful hour with Hilda the Gardener a few days ago…

we discussed our plans about what will go where in the garden as well as some options for variety this year… even just talking about how the garden might look is energizing…

she brought me shoots from her spider plant which I have now put in water and set on the rooting ledge, lol…

and we set a date to go plant shopping together… not sure if this is a good thing or a very bad thing🤪… her vehicle has lots of room in it…

so much fun…

dull…

02 Monday May 2022

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overcast with rain all day long… so dull…

I was pleased to have two blooms on the morning glories in the purple pot…

made a dull day much happier…

kitten…

13 Wednesday Apr 2022

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had a sweet visitor recently…

the kids just got a kitten, to go along with their dog…

they came for dinner and brought her with them… gates went up, doors were closed, and plants were protected, lol…

I think she is going to be a climber because she was up on ledges and chairs, lol…

she also had a lovely nap in the sunshine…

she is very cute… reminded me of some of the cats we have had over the years…

sprouting…

07 Thursday Apr 2022

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as I watch the plants start sprouting for spring, I also watch more snow falling outside…

and the morning glories I planted awhile ago have started to bloom daily…

the slow warmup and lots of wind have been good as the snow banks have been melting away and there is not tons of standing water in the yard…

seeding…

06 Wednesday Apr 2022

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this morning I was happy to discover two blooms on one of the morning glories…

that encouraged me to do some seeding for the garden…

I had decided not to do any, but felt a need to start morning glories so they can begin blooming earlier…

I cut toilet paper rolls in half, then cut slits at one end, folded them and put a piece of tape across the bottom…

then I put all of those into a spinach clamshell, filled them with soil, and dropped a few seeds into each one… I also planted three of them with grape tomatoes…

watered each one and closed the clamshell…

now for the waiting game… and we won’t mention the snow that was falling as I wrote this, sigh…

starting…

17 Thursday Mar 2022

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yesterday I put up a photo on Instagram that showed my Japanese Maple just starting to leaf out… this picture below came up in my Google Photos today showing the same tree two years ago… made me laugh because it is so different, lol…