Firefly. I wish I had some of this.
Last year Megan worked very very hard in the front and rear of the house...clearing the beds down to just soil....the one in front of the porch has a few weeds and ferns. The OTHER BED out back is packed fuller than it ever was...everything is BACK. Tall...Wide....Thick..Healthy.. It's like A Magic Trick Gone Wrong. But it always makes me smile. When I look out the back windows. The Peonies in the center bed also look better than EVER. And Wo Peng made nine flowers...which as usual didn't last more than a few days. I always expect Wo Peng to die. He was a very very frail young peony. I moved him several times until I actually found him a spot he liked. Nine flowers.
The things in that back garden bed are actual plants not weeds. The Peony my husband set on fire with the riding mower and a gas can.......tall, full of flower buds. Stranger than Fiction. The False Indigo came back as well. tall and thick. I need to do something with the daffodils- tie them up or cut them back. Any Garden Advice?????
It rained so the chemicals on the grass got watered it- a few days late but chemicals are forever, Right?
The Lawn Guys NEVER measured for mulch and NEVER spread mulch. They NEVER did Spring Clean Up either. Wasn't just me...my Lunch Buddy called her Old Landscape Company and they actually showed up and did work. I don't have an "Old Landscape Company". So another year of weeds minus mulch. But I do get excellent lawn mowing.
It's not like I'm on some Garden Club Visit listing.....I live on a street with huge DEAD END sign at the entrance. No one is driving down here to SEE ANYTHING.
So far my fresh desk top calendar has "double down on CARROTS" pasted to the upper right edge. And a bunch of colorful parrots below that. Also a thick black lettered warning- Get Ready For Years of Killer Heat. Son and I think it might be time to replace the old AC units with something environmentally better. And perhaps less noisy.
My Master Gardener Buddy is bringing over some red dahlia tubers....some one gave her a bunch. This usually happens when an old gardener dies and family want to give the over wintered bulbs away. This has happened to me twice...both times red dahlias...possibly the same ones. Daughter will give them away when I am gone. I'll make a note in the Estate Notebook.
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Tie the daffodils back, don't cut them back until they turn brown. Let the nutrients in the leaves find their way to the bulbs.
I was considering gathering them up and using some cloth to tie them together and up off the grass. Got my containers filled and planted- I also covered them in netting. Deer might come to sample them.....tonight...
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