i'm pretty sure that this is our first non-eleanor post in a long time. she was sleeping when these evening shots of various lawn and garden happenings were taken. granted, it's not a
major screen porch re-vamp, but we do what we can...we have an ace hardware within spitting distance of the house and this is a pretty major temptation for rob. however, when he comes home with cheery annuals for the deck, i can't even pretend to be the least bit irritated about an impulse buy. my dad won that dos equis umbrella at a golf outing!
one of our project green purchases was a japanese maple. rob also snagged a redbud, spirea, lilac, silver lace vine, and some perennials for me. we hope this little tree is happy in the front yard.
ever-vigilant oscar patrols the yard for pesky critters. literally. a few days after this was taken, he dug a hole a foot deep in the center of that bed under the deck, presumably to get at something nesting in the stone wall, and some of those not-yet-blooming irises paid the price. now the rest of them have bloomed a lovely purple. i need some yellow ones for next year to round out the iris palette.
at the corner there you can see the jack in the pulpit and solomon's seal that jean gave to us this spring as well as one of the hostas she planted last year. it's my favorite kind with huge quilted-looking light green leaves. anyone know the variety?
i'm pretty sure that this is our first non-eleanor post in a long time. she was sleeping when these evening shots of various lawn and garden happenings were taken. granted, it's not a major screen porch re-vamp, but we do what we can...we have an ace hardware within spitting distance of the house and this is a pretty major temptation for rob. however, when he comes home with cheery annuals for the deck, i can't even pretend to be the least bit irritated about an impulse buy. my dad won that dos equis umbrella at a golf outing!
one of our project green purchases was a japanese maple. rob also snagged a redbud, spirea, lilac, silver lace vine, and some perennials for me. we hope this little tree is happy in the front yard.
ever-vigilant oscar patrols the yard for pesky critters. literally. a few days after this was taken, he dug a hole a foot deep in the center of that bed under the deck, presumably to get at something nesting in the stone wall, and some of those not-yet-blooming irises paid the price. now the rest of them have bloomed a lovely purple. i need some yellow ones for next year to round out the iris palette. 
at the corner there you can see the jack in the pulpit and solomon's seal that jean gave to us this spring as well as one of the hostas she planted last year. it's my favorite kind with huge quilted-looking light green leaves. anyone know the variety?
Recently I haven't been able to leave comments, so we'll see if this works....
ReplyDeleteJoyce and I once looked at a website with ten bajillion different types of hosta. It was fun, but overwhelming!
I planted my Solomon's Seal too. Hooray for planting!
yeah, there was a comment glitch, but i think it's all better now. spread the word!
ReplyDeleteyeah blog facelift! yeah amazing backyard with gorgeous plants! yeah happy family ;)
ReplyDeleteOh good....I can do comments again. Carrie...my guess is you won't be able to name the hosta if you didn't have a tag. Like Betsy says there are a bajillion of them and so many of them look very similar. Hurray for snagging a Japanese Maple. I think Rob has been trying to get one of those for years!
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