Happy Memorial Day Sandra! Love seeing what you have done with the yard at your home! Also love that you have your daughter and the Butches to help you with keeping up with it. I have just spent the last two days in the yard here. Lovely just right days temperature wise, to be taking care of the many things that needed to be done. Getting several perennials in the ground that I had babied through this past winter. And taking the time in the mornings to do some watering under the eves of the house, where there are several flower beds. The lawn got 'high-mowed' in sections at different times and I got my exercise. All while eagles and ravens soared over head and a little bunny kept an eye on me! Be well Sandra and take a sniff of your beautiful roses for me! :-)
Yes to smelling roses and other scented flowers! My lilacs gave me great joy every time I walked by. And when I planted roses, I planted several especially for their scents. One is called Quicksilver. It's lavendar and smells delicious. I have a bouquet in the house right now. Another is Scent-Sation which gives it away in the name. That one is colored like a peace rose. They are all blooming right now. So happy for you that you can get out and garden. And eagles and ravens! The big ones. Wow.
Ok...so this is the way my gardening season usually starts. In March I swear I will tackle the blackberries and other weeds early before they "creep", but it's too cool to work outside (in my opinion). So here it is end of May and I have purchased numerous plants that need to be put in the ground but after I clean out the blackberries. Fortunately I got two new pygmy goats this spring to join my Nigerian dwarf. They are blackberry destroying machines! Hopefully with their help I'll get it done before too long!!
I love the description of perennials: ‘In gardening, perennials are said to sleep, creep, and leap. The first year they "sleep," establishing roots. The second year they "creep," showing growth and promise. The third year they "leap," and in Portland that means they run rampant!’ We have never heard that before.
The garden has become our focus as well. I was going to write a post last week but life got away from me when I got a request from a local refugee support group to help produce one of my Beeston maps for them and I had a ‘2 minute home exercise cube’ to finish. I have yet to take photos of the garden, but I will try to follow your example by the end of this week!
And your daughter and the mower fills me with awe. She must have some muscles and a lot of puff! I go out into the garden for 90 minutes at a time at most, drinking cocoa before I do and weak black tea when I finish. And roses - like dogs - they can take over your life, so I am full of admiration of you as well! Love the photos. Regards Robert 🐰
Happy Memorial Day Sandra! Love seeing what you have done with the yard at your home! Also love that you have your daughter and the Butches to help you with keeping up with it. I have just spent the last two days in the yard here. Lovely just right days temperature wise, to be taking care of the many things that needed to be done. Getting several perennials in the ground that I had babied through this past winter. And taking the time in the mornings to do some watering under the eves of the house, where there are several flower beds. The lawn got 'high-mowed' in sections at different times and I got my exercise. All while eagles and ravens soared over head and a little bunny kept an eye on me! Be well Sandra and take a sniff of your beautiful roses for me! :-)
Yes to smelling roses and other scented flowers! My lilacs gave me great joy every time I walked by. And when I planted roses, I planted several especially for their scents. One is called Quicksilver. It's lavendar and smells delicious. I have a bouquet in the house right now. Another is Scent-Sation which gives it away in the name. That one is colored like a peace rose. They are all blooming right now. So happy for you that you can get out and garden. And eagles and ravens! The big ones. Wow.
Ok...so this is the way my gardening season usually starts. In March I swear I will tackle the blackberries and other weeds early before they "creep", but it's too cool to work outside (in my opinion). So here it is end of May and I have purchased numerous plants that need to be put in the ground but after I clean out the blackberries. Fortunately I got two new pygmy goats this spring to join my Nigerian dwarf. They are blackberry destroying machines! Hopefully with their help I'll get it done before too long!!
Goats! I love them.
I love the description of perennials: ‘In gardening, perennials are said to sleep, creep, and leap. The first year they "sleep," establishing roots. The second year they "creep," showing growth and promise. The third year they "leap," and in Portland that means they run rampant!’ We have never heard that before.
The garden has become our focus as well. I was going to write a post last week but life got away from me when I got a request from a local refugee support group to help produce one of my Beeston maps for them and I had a ‘2 minute home exercise cube’ to finish. I have yet to take photos of the garden, but I will try to follow your example by the end of this week!
And your daughter and the mower fills me with awe. She must have some muscles and a lot of puff! I go out into the garden for 90 minutes at a time at most, drinking cocoa before I do and weak black tea when I finish. And roses - like dogs - they can take over your life, so I am full of admiration of you as well! Love the photos. Regards Robert 🐰
Thank you so much.