— Audrey Hepburn
No single sort of garden suits everyone. Shut your eyes and dream of the garden you’d most love then open your eyes and start planting. Loved gardens flourish, boring ones are hard work.
— Jackie French
To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening.
— Marina Schinz
It was bound to happen sooner or later. The danger of frost has finally passed *knock on wood* Last week was blistering hot. One night we left the windows open and the central air was coming on when I got up that morning (the thermostat is in the hallway that catches the breeze from the windows).
Then the next night we had a tiny little thunderstorm and the temperature dropped significantly. Two nights ago I left the windows down the hall open when I went to bed and the next morning the heat was coming on.
No frost though, which is good because last Monday I finally got my gardens in, and I thought I’d take a moment to share some pictures. We’ll start with the front garden:
That’s five flats of impatiens in the bottom part, with dark purple irises flanking them on either end. In the upper part is our scraggly bush collection, and pansies hanging from the shepherd’s crook.
One of the additions to our garden ornament collection is the large whirligig the father-in-law gave us. We tried a couple of different spots before finally settling on the peony garden for it.
Moving along to the back yard, I also got my vegetable gardens planted. The first one has a row of bush beans at the back, then tomatoes, and the string shows a row of spinach, one of carrots, and one of lettuce.
The tomato plants look a little wilted, but they were just planted the day I took the picture, and they’d just been watered.
The second garden has a row of clipped back asparagus in the back, a row of pepper plants, then beets, and a multicoloured lettuce. I’m hoping to get a couple of squash plants to go in beside the peppers on the far left.
The pond garden is coming along nicely:
And Kelsey park looks really nice too:
The granddaughter nagged her grapy relentlessly until he finally opened up the pool, only to find that it’s the greenest we’ve ever seen it:
And don’t think for a minute that green is a reflection of the trees at the back of the yard. It really is green. Actually, it was even greener that that. I took that picture yesterday, after the pool had been treated with shock and algaecide.
Anyone care for a swim?
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