The weekend has arrived and I for one am all for it! A busy week! I don’t have too much planned this weekend except for a few plants to move around and a couple to plant. I just purchased a healthly allium with large flowerheads and a couple more primula auriculatas.
I hope all you moms out there have a wonderful Mothers Day. I’m taking mine out for a nice breakfast. My husband and son are making me a lobster dinner and margaritas. Yummy!
Finally a warm Spring day. I puttered and it felt great! Went on a bit of a moving frenzy, but am happy with the results.
I’ve decided to enter the garden at work in a garden competition. Now that I have some help with it, I think it will be ready in time.
These are just the cutest little daffs. I cannot for the life of me remember the variety though.
I’ve spend the weekend at a photographers seminar at a local resort. Very inspiring to say the least. I haven’t picked up my digital camera in what seems like ages. I’ve been mostly shooting my film cameras, like my holga, polaroid and my twin lense reflex camera. I really must use it more. The cost of film is getting horrendous!
I’m moving slowly these past few days. The 10 yard pile of fish compost at work has gotten the best of my back. It hurts to even sit at the computer. Today I think I’ll just manage to catch up on some weeding.
I have been out in my own garden in between rain showers this week. I am surprised at how much behind everything is this year. My daffs are just starting to bloom now. I’m not complaining though because I still have alot of plants I want to move around before I mulch next week. Fish compost is 65 bucks a yard this year! Crazy! I will be using it sparingly. My garden gets so full that I really don’t need to mulch every year, I just like how it looks before everything fills in. At the price I can learn to love it the way that it is now!
I bought two new hydrangeas the other day. Sister Teresa and a pretty japanese variety called Shirofuji. I have absolutely no room for them and am going to have to move a bunch of more plants to accomadate them. Isn’t gardening great!
Because they are calling for snow flurries tomorrow. Enough of the cold already.
Just sitting down with a cuppa tea. So far it has been a wonderful Easter Sunday. A lazy morning beginning with my son bringing me my tea. We then went to the park to throw the baseball around with one of his friends. I treated myself to a new baseball glove. I haven’t had one since I was a kid.
We then tried our hand at disc golf. Similiar to golf except with a small frisbee. We liked it so much that we ended up buying the discs. I can see many more games of disc golf in our future. We are now heading over to my parents for a ham dinner. I love ham! Life is good.
Happy Easter! This is a little project I did last night. Okay….I lead a pretty boring life:).
Garden cleanup is going slower than I had hoped. The weather isn’t cooperating. It’s been very cold and wet. There is mixed snow in the forecast for tomorrow. Yuk!
I did manage to get a section done yesterday and pick up all the prunings that lay on the lawn from my last outing. The lawn really needs to be limed and mowed also. I’m going to have to break down and buy a lawnmower this spring. I love my reel mower but sometimes the lawn gets too long to tackle it with it. I hate spending money on things like that. Boring things like hot water tanks, hedges, new roofs etc. Things that you need but are just plain boring.
Hopefully today I will be able to get out and clean up another section. Fingers crossed.
I have been so busy that I haven’t really had a chance to get out in the garden again. Yesterday I managed a quick tidy in my front bed…in which I found a wet ten dollar bill. That put a smile on my face. Today I did a scan of the back yard and started to panic with the job list adding up in my head. Thank goodness I had the sense and started early this year. I once was ahead and now I’m behind.
Saturday has no hockey on the calender for a change and the weather should be half decent. I think I’ll pull a dawn to dusk and get it at least presentable. Then the huge task of moving this, that and the other thing. Ahh…I love gardening.
It’s starting to feel a whole bunch like Spring this past week. It kind of snuck up on me. Out of the blue! First it was the birds chirping that caught my attention, then a garden walk about followed. Snowdrops and crocus showing their little flowers. Nothing beats the beginning of Spring.
I can’t believe it is already Christmas. Amazing how time flys. With the winter soltice behind us now, I can look forward to the beginning of longer days. Before I know it signs of Spring will appear again. Wow…that sounds so positive from a person who dreads the next three months. I mean really…winter has just begun. If the past month is any indication of what the weather is going to be like, I’d better put on a extra sweater and hold on to my hat 
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
