Month: April 2017

Forced Fairy garden

Lady bug invasion

Mommy had a little lamb, or three or ten . . .

Worms need to stay underground

Gnome invasion

My Mother LOVES to do ceramics.  (All of the above are from Mom’s garden.) she has run out of room to put ceramics in her garden so she is “helping” me decorate mine.

I have ceramic ducks, a turtle, mushrooms and now, I have a fairy garden.  I’ve finally had to ask her to check with me first before making me any more ceramics for my garden, or my house for that matter.  I am not going to be an outlet for supporting her addiction!  (She has run out of room to put more ceramics in her own yard – seriously, it’s scary.  My Mom is “that crazy ceramics lady.”

My fairy garden – courtesy my dear Mother

But these little fairy houses are really cute, and they look nice under the willow shrubs in the south/east fountain garden.  I have them tucked just beneath the overhang of the willows.  Fairies like their privacy you know.

The fullness of June

Poppies and white sage
Butterfly garden looking south east across the back lawn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking through the doorway
Roses welcome the sunrise
Day lilies!
Rosa rugosa at the edge of the Safari Garden
Vegetables!
Lonely Cherub
The Story Pole
Butterfly garden
Butterfly garden

Fabricing the world!!!!

I am sick of weeding!  I know it’s a never ending battle; I know that as a gardener, I will always have to weed.  But seriously, I do not want to spend the majority of my time weeding; that should not be my primary function in life.  I know the giant wild field to the north of my

Landscaping fabric around the outside edges of the trellis.

neighborhood will keep blowing weed seeds into my yard.  I KNOW the birds will keep pooping weed seeds into my gardens.  But I can’t stand it – I have to do something.  So I am putting fabric down where ever I possibly can.    So Far I’ve gone through 600 feet, at 12′ wide.

Fabric laid down in the pathway, and under the mulch on both sides. All the way to the edging of the Blackberry trellis to the north, and the wildflower meadow to the south.
I put fabric under the fire pit before the gravel was added (I don’t have a picture of that step)
There is fabric on both sides of the blackberry bed, and moving under the border of the bed into the next garden area
The entire garden of Pain is covered in fabric: 2 layers under the central hardscape walkway, and 1 layer on both sides of the walkway, with holes cut around the trees and roses.
Weed barrier under what will later be the Willow Woman sculpture
I laid down two layers of fabric through the north walkway. This area is not finished, but the fabric will give us a dry surface to walk on in the meantime.
The future fire feature at the south edge of the dragon garden
All the mulch was raked away to one side of the space, and then the fabric laid down, mulch spread out on top, and the fabric laid out over the other side. Holes were cut around the low lying squash beds, and an additional 3″of new mulch added on top.