The Garden
I finished mowing the lawn this evening (took me two evenings, too hot to do it in one!) and pulling weeds from the flower beds. It sorely needed it, as we haven’t had a chance to touch it since just before the arrival of Paul et al, just over two weeks ago already.
While I was working tonight, and the sweat was dripping off my face, I thought about all the flowers I planted this year and how happy I am with the way things have turned out. This garden had a few plantings when we moved in, but I decided I just wasn’t going to do anything TOO expensive, since it isn’t our house. I’d brought a few perennials with me from our flat that had been growing in pots – they included a small yew tree that was our Christmas tree a couple of years ago and an aster that blooms late in the summer without fail. Last year, I put them in the ground, along with some dianthus (pinks) that came back this year.
The rest of what I’ve put in are bedding plants – none of them growing very tall, but they’re getting quite colourful. I also have some pots planted with some of the same plants, and they’ve taken over to the point that you can no longer see the pots!
With that said, there are some things missing that would be in ‘my’ garden if this was actually ‘my’ garden. Things like lilacs, lily of the valley, clematis, roses and peonies, for a start! Someday…
In the meantime, some photos of the way my garden looked before I pulled some weeds this evening:
Tags: aster, bedding plants, clematis, flower beds, garden, lawn, lilac, lily of the valley, peony, roses, yew tree
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02/07/2009 at 4:29 pm
your garden looks great julie!! hope i get over to see it sometime this summer!
03/07/2009 at 7:17 pm
Thanks Tracy…I hope you get over here too – maybe a later-in-the-summer bbq. Now that you will have a guarantee of not working weekends, it should be easier to coordinate with D’s weekends off!