May 30, 2008
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Friday already
I hardly ever see this yellow columbine because it is behind a Viburnum that is getting quite large in the corner of the back garden. It needs shade which is why it is there. With only baby trees it is hard to find a shady spot for shade loving flowers. The Mexican hat in the second picture is really a wild flower, but I like to have a few clumps of it around. It blooms nearly all summer.
I was blown away when the tropical amaryllis growing beside the foundation put up a third scape. I had been pretty amazed when two scapes appeared a couple weeks ago with a total of 10 blooms, but a third one from one bulb is above and beyond. It must be happy there. My purple coneflowers are beginning to bloom -- just barely but there are plenty of buds, so if the weather doesn't get too brutal too early, I should have lots of them.
I'm enjoying the spiderwort, the purple/blue flower below. It is the first time in my garden and everyday it has more blooms. I know it is a spreader, so I hope I'm not sorry someday that I gave it garden space. Right now, though, I'm happy with them. A black-eyed stella daylily is the last picture. I have oodles of buds on daylilies all over the garden. So many of them were new ones last year and this year are just big enough to call them clumps.
Chris and I are continuing to work at Mother's apartment in the afternoon, organizing things in anticipation of dispensing with her things and cleaning out the apartment next week. We are putting like things together, throwing out real junk and the mountains of old records that go back years. We brought home a big box of jewelry last night to organize. I had no idea Mom had SO MUCH jewelry. We sat at my dining table all evening finding matches for the earrings and untangling the chains, then putting them in plastic baggies so they wouldn't get all tangled again. We'll keep a few things, but most of it will find another home. I think Chris is at her house right now putting the earrings on little cards.Chris has a tendency to get bogged down with this chore -- because she has always believed that "if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing right." Very commendable, really, and I wish we had time to go through every box of pictures and every letter, etc -- but it would take much too long if we did. I'm afraid I am being a little bossy in my efforts to make progress and not work such long hours that we get sick. We both are nursing slight colds, and there is so much more to do before we can be sick
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The spiderwort will need to be controlled twice a year. In the heat of the summer, I take the shovel and dig around them, removing the dirt and putting it in the compost pile. Then replacing with a little red clay soil. We have lots of that here in GA. Because they are next to my veggie garden, I have to control again in the Spring, by just pulling up those that managed to take root in the clay. Then mulch the soil around them well. My hubbie doesn't like them, so one day I may go out and he will have tilled them under.
Yippee for oodles of daylily buds. The garden is putting on a stellar show so far this year :bow:
Sorry to hear of your colds - take care. :love::love:
Looks like your flowers are ahead of mine this year. No coneflowers here yet.
I always love your flowers.
*hugs* I can't even imagine what it must be like to do what you're doing with your mother's stuff. *hugs*
Spiderwort! That's what I dug up from the neighbors. I put it around my air conditioner and the far area around the house that I don't tend to as much. It does spread but you can just pull what you don't want anymore and it's quite forgiving.
As always Alice, the garden looks stunning! I'm thinking of planting some Columbines in my shade garden with the Coleus & Callas. I think they'd be a nice mix. Continuing to send good vibes that way for your sorting process.
Hope the cold will go away
You have such lovely pictures. Your garden must be beautiful.
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I like the Mexican hats and Blanketflower here. The plant you call spider wort is probably what I had in the back corner but it was a deep purple.
When you refer to records at mom's do you mean LP's?
I've a bunch of those from Wil's cousin and perhaps I should find a home for them now. Haven't played them in years.
@BLB - No, I mean bank records and other financial papers. Mom saved everything.
I hope you and Chris are managing ok after your mom's death.. I know it's a worrisome task going through everything. I have done it twice, once for my mom and then for Gordon's. Your garden is bound to be a comfort to you. I love it that you leave in what many would call weeds, like the Mexican hat. Mama always said that some weeds were as pretty as bought flowers and left many in her beds too. I do the same. Usually I will leave in long enough to at least see if there is a pretty bloom.
Ava
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