Saturday I worked at finishing up the Folly Wall raised bed and it looks great. I got my husband to come on a "liberation run" to bring home an enormous long, flat stone and it went on as the capstone to finish that dismantled and rebuilt north wall of the raised bed. Job done. Raised bed looks good, pond looks reasonably level, and I moved forward by planting two nice little creeping phlox into the raised bed and then clearing off the area just below it and moving in clumps of Lamb's Ear (Stachys bizantina). Finally, a little forward progress there again.
I found that the old utility sink that I have set into the corner of the south raised bed is badly cracked. So much for that as a water feature. I was going to remove it, then decided to fit a smaller container inside it and backfill around it with soil. I can use the smaller container to hold water for a water plant (like papyrus or reeds) and the backfilled edge can hold bog plants that like it soggy but not standing water (like marsh marigold). I was lucky enough to get 4 plastic storage totes/tubs at Goodwill for only $3 each (they are missing lids, but I don't care about that). One of them is small enough to fit inside the sink; I want to put another one down (black plastic) into the soil next to the sink and THAT will be the water feature. Once I get some plants growing around the containers to disguise the edges it should look good.
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Sunday was beautiful; still breezy and far too hot (we got to 80F) for mid-April, but I gave myself up to a day of "peripatetic gardening." Instead of following any sort of plan or to-do list, I put on my tool belt and gloves and just wandered all over the place, doing whatever came to hand. I LOVE this sort of gardening. This is gardening as it should be, for me. I moved a few hyacinths to close to the deck steps (where I can enjoy their fragrance next spring), put some baby hostas into the ground in the Grape Arbor garden, put two more into pots for the Pot Corral. When the sun got a bit too intense, I concentrated on tidying up the Grape Arbor garden and worked my way back as far as the Asian Garden.
We had thunderstorms roll through last night and some rain. I've got a deadline project to work on, the world is very wet right now, and I dont' know if I'll get into the garden today. If I do, I'll pick up where I left off, tidying the Asian Garden (lots of Annual bluegrass (Poa annua)).
My Bibb lettuce is up and growing. I moved the tomato plants into the greenhouse yesterday to begin their hardening off period. I still need to move a lot of stuff out of the greenhouse and get it better organized. it's really filling up with plants now!
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