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18 Jul 2009Ornamentals 2 1 SoPo garden , Narnia garden , Porch containers, front and back garden , Columbine, cream Seeding, and Colum...Overcast 21°C / 69°F
Found this blooming echeveria by the compost— I just stick that stuff back there as a kind of nursery and “harvest” it when I have a spot that needs a little something. This year for the first time, it has decided to bloom, most amusingly, right down the back of the resident di...
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19 May 2009Playing hooky 3 Perennial Border garden , Narnia garden , SoPo garden , Gypsophila Planting Out, Red Star Planting Out, Swe...Sunny 29°C / 84°F
Food and pretties and bright sunshine. Work is for losers. (Says the person with no job. Well, half a job.)
Put in lots of companions and edging flowers, and some filler annuals that I got yesterday at Urhausen. A couple of beds will have to wait until I’m able to move the mis-placed tuli...
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02 May 2009Welcome to May 2 5 Gooseberry Planting Out, Veronica Transplanted, Boltonia "Snowbank" Transplanted, Cucumber (bush) WS 6 Pla...Overcast 21°C / 70°F
Plant moving, path building, seed sowing. Got through the full weekend’s worth of tasks. It looks specTAcular.
Sideyard
Created path (level dirt, lay pavers— Lynn’s concrete blocks and the left-over wall blocks); dug out euonymus at north end; transplanted hosta to wall near astilbe; move...
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24 Apr 2009Already journaled Tulips- "Easter Moon" New Patio Blooming and Narnia gardenThis is in some journal somewhere, but now I’ve separated out the varieties, so I’m rejournaling to get it into the Timeline.20°C / 68°F
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24 Apr 2009Tiny leaves Blue Mist "Janietta" Breaking Dormancy, Narnia garden , Blue Mist "Janietta" Breaking Dormancy, Russian sag...20°C / 68°F
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23 Apr 2009It's there after all Veronica Sprouting and Narnia gardenWill need to move this over to the other side of the path, as I’ve decided to put corn here.Overcast 27°C / 80°F
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17 Apr 2009Entering Narnia 4 2 Narnia gardenOvercast 17°C / 63°F
When our kids were small we used to take lots of walks in the woods. We would tell them that if they stepped through just the right combination of tree branches, they would enter Narnia, and they would look for likely candidates. Sometimes they’d step through and we’d say “kid...

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