Progressive Greening
Jun. 9th, 2003 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormAlright. From left to right against the shed: Blue Crop Blueberry, Perle D'Azure Clematis, Brigitta Blueberry, Multi Blue Clematis, and Blue Ray Blueberry.
Also against the shed: a sky-blue nigella and a clump of the orange poppies.
In front of the shed, out a little, to the left: the white-and-gold Siberian iris. next to them, in front of Perle, the four stir-fry veggies are scatter-seeded in stripes: mizuna, rosette pak choi, red mustard, and pak choi. Empty space approximately that wide, then Warm Welcome rose in a pot against the fence waiting to go in there permanently, I think.
Also: marigolds mostly germinated in the Juggler's garden and the sunflowers up there too. Eggplant (Black beauty) start planted there with the two each sungold and beefsteak tomatoes. There's a pink perennial poppy of some kind blooming in that bed, and some red peppers of some kind or other.
I've got an Asao clem that I want to put in somewhere, and the nursery also had Polish Spirit, Pink Champagne, and Arabella, and some species clematis that looked interesting. Hmmm. They go have a lot of space where the veggie garden is right now. Alternating roses and clematis? They need a reine des violettes. Everyone does. Smells like lemons and sunshine.
To do next: acquite a tigress, a tropical sunrise, and a charles darwin. The first two for sure are at Southlands nursery. Then the roses can go in. Put some minis in below them and seed Saxatile Alyssum where there's nothing else to go in.
Also: get wintergreen and put it somewhere. Mmmmm... wintergreen is such a cool plant. Also, we've got the concrete to make stepping stones so it's just a matter of figuring out how we want to do a mold.
I discovered the side garden for the first time today. I hadn't paid much attention to it before since it was sort of established but I went through it today, removed the dandelions, and took stock. There's a bit of an open spot, two hydrangeas, two clumps of daisies, a long run of these red lily-like rhizomes with straplike leaves, and -- of all things -- buried in among the lily-things is a poor sad light-starved peony that I need to move out of there. The lillies must spread fast.
I'm resolutely ignoring the front yard until those shrubs are gone, but I did cut back the grass that was encroaching into the beds there. It's nice to have everyday chores to do, like watering, but it's driving me crazy that stuff isn't done. I just -can't- plant the roses until we have them all, and until I plant the roses I can't plant the alyssum... everything's all roadblocked. Poor garden.
Today was my first day alone at the Other House. Relaxingish, I got to putter around the garden and just sort of expand into the space, though not as fully as I can at home. The garden just isn't complete enough for it to be a real home yet.
I wonder if I can convince her to plant Austins in the front yard? Evelyn...?
Also against the shed: a sky-blue nigella and a clump of the orange poppies.
In front of the shed, out a little, to the left: the white-and-gold Siberian iris. next to them, in front of Perle, the four stir-fry veggies are scatter-seeded in stripes: mizuna, rosette pak choi, red mustard, and pak choi. Empty space approximately that wide, then Warm Welcome rose in a pot against the fence waiting to go in there permanently, I think.
Also: marigolds mostly germinated in the Juggler's garden and the sunflowers up there too. Eggplant (Black beauty) start planted there with the two each sungold and beefsteak tomatoes. There's a pink perennial poppy of some kind blooming in that bed, and some red peppers of some kind or other.
I've got an Asao clem that I want to put in somewhere, and the nursery also had Polish Spirit, Pink Champagne, and Arabella, and some species clematis that looked interesting. Hmmm. They go have a lot of space where the veggie garden is right now. Alternating roses and clematis? They need a reine des violettes. Everyone does. Smells like lemons and sunshine.
To do next: acquite a tigress, a tropical sunrise, and a charles darwin. The first two for sure are at Southlands nursery. Then the roses can go in. Put some minis in below them and seed Saxatile Alyssum where there's nothing else to go in.
Also: get wintergreen and put it somewhere. Mmmmm... wintergreen is such a cool plant. Also, we've got the concrete to make stepping stones so it's just a matter of figuring out how we want to do a mold.
I discovered the side garden for the first time today. I hadn't paid much attention to it before since it was sort of established but I went through it today, removed the dandelions, and took stock. There's a bit of an open spot, two hydrangeas, two clumps of daisies, a long run of these red lily-like rhizomes with straplike leaves, and -- of all things -- buried in among the lily-things is a poor sad light-starved peony that I need to move out of there. The lillies must spread fast.
I'm resolutely ignoring the front yard until those shrubs are gone, but I did cut back the grass that was encroaching into the beds there. It's nice to have everyday chores to do, like watering, but it's driving me crazy that stuff isn't done. I just -can't- plant the roses until we have them all, and until I plant the roses I can't plant the alyssum... everything's all roadblocked. Poor garden.
Today was my first day alone at the Other House. Relaxingish, I got to putter around the garden and just sort of expand into the space, though not as fully as I can at home. The garden just isn't complete enough for it to be a real home yet.
I wonder if I can convince her to plant Austins in the front yard? Evelyn...?
