June 30, 2009

Daylily elimination. I was overwhelmed by all the unwanted daylilies that popped up this spring, but it turns out that every daylily is not the same old, boring flower, and my job as master gardener is to select the prettiest and eliminate the rest. What do you think?

Varying shades of pink, all of which could look really nice surrounded by the right flowers; we'll have to see how the new plants I choose look with them. These bright orange-red ones, however, make everything look beautiful-- even the boring tangerine daylilies that live next to the air conditioner with them!

Too bad the tangerine ones are crowding the a/c! They'll probably have to be eliminated. :(

There's also a bunch of new friends popping up that are beautiful, and now that the siding is done, I can start seriously planning and planting new ones alongside them! I'm thinking lavender, delphiniums, coreopsis...



And check out the back yard... Mike is digging up all the grass to turn it into a real little garden!



The next big project will be the perennial garden out front (just flowers or a mix with some landscape-y bushes?) and the front shade garden (Solomon's seal, hostas, astilbe, and who knows what else!)

Do you think my first real paycheck will cover all of that?!

June 14, 2009

So maybe this isn't my garden, but with my organic-farming-aspiring husband, ours will probably look something like this someday.

Those are rows and rows of strawberry plants, loaded with ripe strawberries!


I joined Aunt Mel, Connie, and Helen Jean to pick 164 lbs of berries for Grandpa.

Mel and I took some home, but Connie and Helen Jean picked just out of the kindness of their hearts... and stayed to stem them, too! Incredible people.



Now I have my own flat of strawberries to stem and freeze-- and I'm most definitely buying strawberry plants and throwing them in a strawberry pot ASAP, even if the plants already have fruit on them!