Beauty and the Bees

The bees are very happy with the blossoms on the beauty bushes.

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Little Pot of Flowers

Wendy gave me this vase for my birthday several years ago and I'm still in love with it.

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Raised Bed Garden

Bill decided to grow some veggies this summer so he put together a raised bed using some leftover lumber.

5/10/2020

We put it in what we hope is an area of the yard that gets sufficient sunlight, which it does today because the trees haven't leafed out yet.

We added some loam that we had delivered from Gray Farm nursery in Wells and we bought new tomato cages from Ocean State Job Lots.  The cages were $3 each and I sold about ten of them a few years ago for $5.  

5/17/2020

And finally, Bill planted six Beefsteak and three cherry tomatoes and six bell pepper plants.

5/22/2020

I planted the remaining three cherry tomatoes in my flower gardens and planted two cucumber plants in pots on the deck. 

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Flowers in the Garden

The butterfly weed is doing very well and has even spread.

Love these seed pods and I'm not going to deadhead them.

The coneflowers are the best they've ever been!

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Lenten Rose

I love this plant, it is always flowering when we arrive home from Florida and the flowers last all summer, eventually turning a nice, soft ash pink.

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Seed Pods

Found these two seed pods quite interesting.  They are both Clematis but so different from one another...

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Today's Garden

A little over a month ago I wrote about cleaning up the garden by the tub.  Here it is then...

and here it is today...

 

The Lenten Rose is still in bloom and I think the Rocky Mtn Columbine is very happy.

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Spring Clean-up

Today was a nice day but the forecast for the weekend is much cooler temps and rain, rain, rain.  Soooo, rather than go to the gym, I spent the afternoon cleaning up the garden around the tub.

I didn't take a "before" picture but trust me, it looked a lot better "after".

This shows, front to back, ligularia, columbine, lenten rose, tradescantia (spiderwort), thistle and a tall grass.  Also seen is some sedum, bledding heart, clemetis (seriously, it's there) and rose campion.

I took several wheelbarrows full to the woods and sucked up several more bags of leaves. 

Then I enjoyed a beer and finished my book.

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The Saddest Excuse...

for a tomato plant I have ever seen.

It is, however, upstaged by the equally sad looking broccoli plant.

Technically, the plant doesn't look that bad but there is absolutely NO sign of any broccoli.

We have come to the conclusion that we don't have any appropriate place in the yard to actually grow vegetables.  Next year we will dismantle the raised garden and plant grass.  That is something we can grow.

Keeping an eye on the growing grass

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