Like maybe, maybe I am ACTUALLY making a garden here. The weather has been rainy but mild and everything is growing like crazy. I've never seen tulips that huge and now the iris are also outdoing themselves. I have a white "Immortale" iris that is honestly the size of a large grapefruit.
But what really has me "chuffed" is that, yes, by gum and by golly, the outer areas are definitely forming themselves up into gardens, instead of just weedy patches with some flowers or shrubs sticking out. The Storybook Garden is (for now) very beautiful...I know I'll have a problem with Monster grass later in the year, as usual, but right now, I can see the layout is "getting there" and it's just what it's supposed to be--a long narrow garden that leads the explorer up through the forsythia hedge, up the hill, to the Folly Wall garden.
And the Folly Wall Garden is shaping up. Still very very rough, but again, it's looking more like a garden than just a mess of weeds and "stuff." I guess the true test for me is "Do I want to work here?" Yes I do.
The really encouraging area is the Asian Garden. Now that I have the Virtual Koi Pond in, everything else is starting to fall into place. I moved an arbor up there this morning to provide a visual and actual gateway into the area and I'm in the process of cutting down the annual bluegrass and tidying up the place. I want to get that grass out before it drops its seeds. I'm thinking of moving some struggling iris up there too, to extend the already existing bed of iris. I also need to get a couple of small benches so I have somewhere to sit and admire all this hard work.
Now I want everybody to remind me of this post in July when I'm griping about how out of control, ugly, and desperate the place looks.
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