We have such a little garden now, but I think we’ve made the most of it. The front yard is all flowers: roses, sweet pea, poppies, a clematis I need to train. I’ve moved three plants that were housewarming gifts (my friends know me so well!) out: 2 African daisies and a hydrangea. I don’t have experience with either of those to know if they’ll make it through the winter. If not, new adventure will go in those spots next year.
Because it’s so arid here, our landscapers (hired by the builders) have always put fabric down, cut holes in it, and then planted discrete units of plants: a bush every 2 feet, for example. Sam likes the regularity of it. I long for the lush density of an English cottage garden. Of course, for that to happen, I would have to change completely my discrete watering-at-24-in-intervals system… or move to England.
This little patch on the side is my favorite spot, probably because the birds frequent it.
On to the back: remember my dying peach tree? Well, a day or two after my post on its horrible aphid infestation, the hail hit. Hard. Neither the plants not the aphids appreciated the hail, but the aphids fared worse. Look at how the leaves have opened up on the peach tree! It’s now a happy, healthy aphid-free tree. (Of course, the hail knocked off the tiny fruit, too, but at least there’s hope for next year.)
Our pear tree has two tiny Bartlet pears on it, but I can’t seem to get a good picture of them. The birds and I are both watching those pears carefully. Hungrily.
Here are my little vegetable and cutting gardens. The pots have zinnias and cosmos. The cosmos have just germinated- it may have been too late to add them, we’ll see. The closer of the two square beds has the end of my lettuce and the beginnings of my cucumbers. The second has tomatoes, basil, Thai basil and peppers. Everything else we’re planning to get from our CSA share.
Oh, and our chicks! I should count them in the garden, since (if all goes well) they’ll be our egg supply and our fertilizer. All eight are here. Our Rhode Island reds seem to have the most pooping trouble- is this normal?
What’s growing in your garden?
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