Spring Gardening Update
After a lovely morning at the spa (ah……) I came home and did some tidying around the front flower beds, in prep for the big flower planting push that I know is around the corner (I’m just waiting on the weather to decide if it really wants to be spring or not before I make that investment of money, time, and labor).
Here are a few pics from yesterday’s effort:
My oldest daugther made a bird feeder at school (don’t ask what all is in there) so I had to hang it in the tree. Now, time will tell if we get any bird visitors. I’m torn on the whole thing. I hope they don’t come, because I think I have a better chance at fighting off the dog from messing with my blueberries than the birds. And you already know how much luck I DIDN’T have at keeping the dog out of the blueberries last year….
The tulips are coming along. I’m so excited that most of them acutally took!
I got the blueberries planted. But this year, I’m keeping them up front until I can be sure the dog will not pull them up. I don’t want a repeat of last year’s blueberry planting fiasco.
And since the weather was nice, I took a few minutes to trim up my wiley rosemary bush:
Before (this thing has a mind of it’s own….)
After: see how much better it’s looking. And I have fresh rosemary to share with everyone. (This thing STILL has a mind of its own though…. lol)
Next update will hopefully include the results of my spring planting. I’m thinking of adding a rose bush, some lillies and I think I need to add a new bush of some sorts…. And since the dog is very dutifully leaving my onions along, I’m doing to get another container going with some red peppers and some orange & yellow bell peppers. This is going to be a great summer of fresh eating in my house.
I spent many late spring/early summers as a wee one “helping” my grandfather place netting over the blueberry bushes. Every year I learned a new colorful term for the avian thieves and their purple poo. Good luck keeping them at bay!