Spring has finally arrived! 2012

 Current Projects:

We've been working in the display garden since mid-May and have gotten much work accomplished since then. The first big project was getting each section re-mulched. It took a few days and many deliveries.  The pond pump needed to be fixed and now is running again.

After the addition of Morgan's new herb spiral last year, she worked on planting her creation.  Using herbs and annuals, the bed is filling in nicely.

Another new section is located on the north side of the garden at the end of the row of crab-apple trees. We removed overgrown sedges and replaced them with hostas, ferns, daylilies, and the perennial gayfeathers, all of which were previously crowded together.  Crowding causes plants to stay smaller in size than their potential because they aren't getting as many nutrients or as much space as necessary.  The result of removing and transplanting makes the new bed much more organized and spacious. 

New Bloomers!

I will be updating this section each week.  The pictures will show plants that just began flowering.  This week roses have taken off and are in full bloom.  Delphiniums, Yarrow, Clematis vines and our Prickly Pear Cactus have also been gorgeous with many new blossoms.  Enjoy the pictures!

 Prickly Pear Cactus

 Delphinium

 Yarrow

 Shrub Rose

Clematis vine

Thanks for reading and come visit the garden soon!

Nicole

Garden Pictures

 Japanese beetles

 

 Dave opening the seed pod from the invasive species in the garden.

 Beetle damage.

 

Morgan

Finished Project

 Finally done!

 

It's a bit wet from the sprinkler.

 

Morgan

Lots of weeding and watering lately.

 

Morgan

Marigolds

With a fork drive Nature out,
She will ever yet return;
Hedge the flowerbed all about,
Pull or stab or cut or burn,
She will ever yet return.

Look: the constant marigold
Springs again from hidden roots.
Baffled gardener, you behold
New beginnings and new shoots
Spring again from hidden roots.
Pull or stab or cut or burn,
They will ever yet return.

Gardener, cursing at the weed,
Ere you curse it further, say:
Who but you planted the seed
In my fertile heart, one day?
Ere you curse me further, say!
New beginnings and new shoots
Spring again from hidden roots.
Pull or stab or cut or burn,
Love must ever yet return.

~Robert Graves

Water Lily

My whole life is mine, but whoever says so
will deprive me, for it is infinite.
The ripple of water, the shade of the sky
are mine; it is still the same, my life.

No desire opens me: I am full,
I never close myself with refusal-
in the rythm of my daily soul
I do not desire-I am moved;

by being moved I exert my empire,
making the dreams of night real:
into my body at the bottom of the water
I attract the beyonds of mirrors...


Translated by A. Poulin 


Rainer Maria Rilke

I spent a majority of the day working on the rest of the identification tags.  Just when I think that I've finally replaced all of them... I'll find a few that I missed!  There are hundreds of different plants in that garden.  Alex and Garrett did some weeding and general clean up.  I finished my project for the most part.  All I have left to do is put in a few more plants.

Morgan