Finally, a full week of rest...guess again. ISP after ISP lined up for each and every day. If there's one thing to look forward to, it's the annual Canada Blooms show; I'm going Friday! It's been nice and mild for the past while, and I've been outside for a while cleaning up. It seems the leaf piles that I forgot about didn't kill the grass, but acted more like mulch (even though your'e supposed to apply mulch after a hard freeze). The Arum italicum survived and are pushing out new leaves. I see plump white buds amidst the crocus leaves (they bloom white) and I've seen the tips of my muscari, daffs, and double tulips push through.
Note to self: take off all the pots and stuff on top of where the galanthus are supposed to be...nothing's going to bloom with a stack of nursery pots stack on top of them lol
Looking like I'm going to be investing a LOT of my small budget into bettering the soil. The drainage is really bad, and I have quite a few things to move about the garden. I'm hoping, really *hoping* to dig more beds. So far, I have these 'few' ideas:
- have a canna bed or at least a canna section
- I really want to grow sunflowers :D the red ones in particular, and maybe also some pollenless ones for cutting
- have a row of ricinus (castor beans) a the end of the yard in front of the evengreens lining the back fence
- give up on the bulbs planted in the small shaded bed and turn it into a veggie/flower patch...which means I'll have to move the arums there
- dig, dig, dig...I want more beds! I've been asking around for some common perennials to fill in and simple no fail blooms: yarrow, iris, daylilies, monarda, shasta daisy, whatever!
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