11 posts tagged “gardening”
Just a few more touches on these beds and I can get those seeds in the ground!
I started some seed indoors this spring, something I had never attempted before. I planted a variety of cutting flowers and a handful of hyacinth beans in egg crates and placed them on my windowsill. The purple hyacinth beans were a birthday gift from my friend Retta, who had noticed me eyeing the bean vine at a local farm, and managed to pick up a few beans from her own mothers garden. Of which I desperately need to visit this summer!
The seeds are doing well in my sunny window, yesterday I transplanted a few into terracotta pots and I realized how enormous the hyacinth beans are getting. They are ten times the size of the flower seedlings. They are HUGE! I can't wait to see the vine when it produces its first bloom and pod, they are a brilliant purple and the heart shaped leaves are green on top with a iridescent purple below and deep veins. The plan is to transplant the seedlings in a sunny spot at the front corner of the house, the Hyacinth will grow as a vine alongside my creeping white rose and should make for a beautiful sight.
If you can't tell, my spring fever is in full effect.
Last year's spring was halted by an unexpected snow storm, we lost all of the beauty and color that the season brings but this year everything has gone off without a hitch. Its stunning and each day I watch things change in absolute awe, I cannot believe I've lived my whole life without spring. This past autumn my grandmother and mother came up from Florida and spent the week with me, which lead to a day in my garden planting tulips.
I've spent these past couple of months watching my tulips grow, inch by inch and brighter by the day. They are just as gorgeous as I had imagined. Each week I give my mother and grandmother an update on the tulips progress and they seem to get a real joy out of the commonality we all share in gardening. I'm so lucky to be able to share something so special with my family.
The hybrid of Pyracantha that I'm looking for "Mohave" is ending up being harder to find than I had expected. I've emailed a few local nursery's and hope to be able to order enough to cover the back section of the fence. I've only found three places where I can purchase them online, but I'd much rather go local if possible.
I just can't wait to put on some shorts, tie my hair back, grab a shovel and get planting. This year spring just isn't coming fast enough for me.
I've spent the past two weekends gardening, its been a lot of work and though my arms feel like jelly and my eyes can barely stay open, I'm thrilled with the end result. This past weekend we found out that the city was giving away free recycled mulch, we jumped on it.. filled the back of the truck with two loads and I shoveled and filled at least a hundred five gallon buckets full while dispensing them around the yard and winterizing our beautiful beds. The flowerbeds look phenomenal and I even had enough go around the base of our cherry tree.
While I've been sweating around the garden Jon has been covered in saw dust. On of the first things we had wanted to do to the house was to remove the privacy fence from across the driveway, it was an eyesore. Jon managed to pick up some salvage ceder deck railing and spindles from a job he was working on, he used this plus custom built two small gates to extend a fence along the driveway instead of across which framed our porch beautifully. The big old gate went down today and the fence in its place looks great.
Pictures to come soon!
As boxes are being unpacked, furniture arrangements are settled and day by day our new house is becoming a home. Saturday Jon and I worked out in the garden, weeding, trimming and trying to bring life back to the neglected paver lined beds of our front yard. I had a smile that wouldn't fade, the weather was a cool seventy degrees and we worked side by side under the shade of our tree lined street while a feeling of pride washed over us, this is our house, all ours.
