Totally lazy this week! (as far as stamping goes)
Haven’t done a darn thing at the stamping table except cut up some of the wallpaper border. Once the rain went away it’s been seriously nice out… but too wet to do any gardening for most of the week. I was a lazy layabout Monday and Tuesday.
Yesterday we mowed and I dug flower beds. Some where Ron dug for me last year, some where no one had dug. Probably ever. I had something like 75 gladiola bulbs to plant, had some serious digging to do. Not to mention some mixed lilies and a couple elephant ears, too. Oh, and my surviving hyacinths out of the pots from last year… not many survived.
I don’t have any brugmansia to plant out this year, didn’t keep cuttings from last year. Now that it’s warm again I’ll see about buying some new ones. The last time I bought some we had a really chilly spring and of the 4 I got, 3 died before I could plant them out. I was left with a beautiful golden yellow that I kept cuttings from, and had a nice show this last fall. The datura I got last year mostly sat there and didn’t do much… it tried to bloom and the wind would beat the blooms right off. Gotta have plants that can handle the wind here! I did finally get some awesome blooms, but it seemed to take forever. Always does with that sort of plant… this isn’t the right zone for them. I’d really like datura or brugmansia that will reseed itself… I =know= some do. Just gotta find the right kind.
I will be busy shaving grass off and putting down black plastic mulch this weekend… and of course we will also put in our tomato and pepper plants. My plan is to use the fence line to grow cukes and sunflowers. I’ve got a bunch of different kinds of sunflower seeds to plant, and cukes to climb up and around. I love sunflowers, and on a fence is good because with wind they tend to want to fall over. Fence will also keep my cukes up off the ground.
Oh, and I’m sunburned. Nose and cheeks, from working in the yard yesterday. Shoulders I guess from later on, when I got too hot to wear sleeves. I always forget sunscreen when it gets nice again. Not a bad sunburn, just a bit pink, but I’ll remember the sunscreen tomorrow.
SO glad Spring is really here… heck, it’s almost done with spring already, the lilacs are done!!!
