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What's New? "When she feeds the flowers
7-3-08: Added new pages: Healthy soil grows healthy plants – check it out! 7-23-06: Added new pages: We have been raising Monarch and Queen butterflies - a kind of indoor gardening for the summer! 6-12-05: Added new pages: Warm Season Planting 2005 (edibles) We have planted a hybrid Crinum Lily 'Ellen
Bosenquet' at the back of the Mound - a dwarf with pink fowers - lovely!
This area has matured quite nicely in the last few months.
and some new things in the Rose and 10-21-04: Added new pages: Also, some useful garden planning and recording tools have been added to the Gardening Notebook page in Sections 5 and 9. 2-12-04: Added new page on Building a Garden Planning Notebook!! You may also notice the addition of quotes at the tops of some pages. This past year, I was plagued with a miserable bout of migraines, which I am only beginning to get under control, so the garden basically was neglected for months, until I gave in and asked the lawn man to help me clean up the mess. Now I can only garden maybe half an hour in the morning and another hour just before the sun goes down. Any more sun exposure, even with full eye protection, will bring on a migraine. But I am getting better and I refuse to give up gardening! I just have to make every minute count. Some changes were made this season in the Rose and Perennial Court, new roses being planted, some to replace what didn't survive last year's drought time. No pictures yet. Also, we outlined all the beds in three rows of South American Brick (a little more attractive than the stuff at Home Depot - these came from Bushel Stop) and replaced the grass. The weeds just were too much to keep down. However, we are leaving the mulch paths in the back, as we will be slowly paving that area with bricks and stepping stones, and mulch is a lot easier to pull up a bit at a time than is grass. I am replanting the Herb Circle, since it had become overgrown with weeds and the herbs were mostly crowded out, and spicing things up a bit with Hollyhocks and Viola tricolor, too. All were bought at Jane's Herbs & Things, since I am only now getting started for this year and want to use my seed-planting time in the Potager. We are hoping to install a drip system in the vegetable boxes and pots there to take up the slack when we travel. Coming soon: Links and Edible
Flowers. Really. I'll get to it. Home ** What's New? ** How It All Started * Garden Update October 2004 * Rose and Perennial Court * Rose Update Feb 2003 * Behind the Wall * Herb Circle * Tropical Edibles Area * Potager * Potager Update Fall 2004 * Warm Season Planting 2005 * Succulent Beds * Wild Edibles * Caterpillars to Butterflies ** New! Building Healthy Soil ** Ecological Gardening * Index of Plants and Techniques Featured * Annual Vegetable Chart * Long Lasting Markers: Jewelry for Your Plants * Build a Gardening Notebook
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