PAgirl63's blog: Been awhile .... August 2019

Been quite awhile since I last posted anything. I have been taking things easier than in prior years. This coming September 7th I will be 3 years Breast Cancer Free! Still going for Mammos and check-ups every 6 months, but by the end of the year they will become yearly. Yay! Feeling good, I gotta say :-))

I eliminated a few gardening areas this year. I had what I called my "Boulder Garden" down near the road that I stopped maintaining. Nothing in it really except for a stand of daffodils in the spring and some weedy looking yarrow. I had dug up the daffs and moved them to my front of house garden. Took some weed cloth and covered the rest of the flowerbed (including the yarrow) and covered it with mulch. Did the same thing to my "Mailbox Garden". Nothing in it but weedy yarrow too.

The front of the house garden areas are pretty much the same. I already had anchor plants such as peonies, siberian iris, 2 tall trellises with flower vines (courtesy of Michael's ) and some foxglove plants that re-seed and replenish themselves every year. In the Fall of 2018 hubby helped me plant 4 stands of tall yellow daffodil bulbs in the same long flower bed and they were just gorgeous this past spring of 2019. Oh, in case you wonder why I would resort to ARTIFICIAL FLOWER VINES - well, the DEER would eat my live Clematis vines and the peony leaves. I still have to fence a lot of my favorite plants, but they don't eat - the irises, daffodils, or foxgloves.

I also have a nice flower garden in front of my front deck. 2 peonies, purple phlox, bleeding hearts, astilbe and oriental lilies and some daffodils. FENCED.

In the back of the house there are 3 smaller gardens. One has astilbes and bleeding hearts. Another has bleeding hearts, siberian irises, and asian catmint. And the largest of the 3 has a stand of orange daylilies, foxgloves, hollyhocks, a clematis, and some cosmos. There are also bearded iris in this bed that haven't bloomed for 2 years.This week I think I will dig them up and probably toss them into my compost pile. Then I will plant some Oriental poppy seeds in their place. Only the largest of the 3 gardens is fenced.

I also have a few flower pots on the back deck. Two tomato plants. Some nasturtiums, and some pathetic looking morning glories. No luck with the MG's this year. It was too cool and rainy when they were first planted out.

Anyway, in a few weeks the MUMS will be flooding the nurseries! :-))

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