What a gorgeous day! The temperature was very cool on Saturday
. And it was sunny. Perfect. We left in the early afternoon to go to a family party.
. And it was sunny. Perfect. We left in the early afternoon to go to a family party.- Planted 3 Pink Autumn Sage 'Salvia greggii'. Two in the Wave Garden and one in the back bed by the bedroom. I have a soft spot for salvias. I just love them. There is an endless variety to choose from. And they are deer resistant.
- Weeded, weeded, weeded. But I'm weeding a lot less than I would be if we weren't in a drought. There was an inch of rain in the rain gauge, that's good but not nearly enough.
- Sprayed herbicide in the Rose Garden, the Orchard, around the pool, and in the Vegetable Garden.
- Worked in the Vegetable Garden for awhile. Picked some peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, and squash.
- For dinner made a salad with the cucumbers, tomatoes, garlic, chives, and thyme marinated in vinegar and sugar and lemon juice. All from the garden. Also for dinner tossed the squash in olive oil and roasted it with some garlic.
- Swam in the pool and soaked up some sun.
- Fertilized the fruiting plum, the pomegranate, and the Mayhaw. Fertilized the asparagus and the Anacachoe Orchid tree.
- Trimmed the wisteria.
- A bird hatched some eggs in the glove box of the cub cadet. We had to move the nest - we drive that thing all the time! I hope the mother finds her babies.
- Butterflies everywhere! There is a frenzy of movement in the Star Garden - butterflies, all manner of bees and bee-like insects and an endless array of odd looking insects.
- Moved sprinklers and adjusted sprinklers.
- Deadheaded the roses.
- Planted some Echinacea seeds.
- Sat in the Orchard for some time. It is the same as the Star Garden - crazy with insect movement.
- I need to re-do the Bulb Bed. I have a bed that spans the length of the shed, and the only thing growing in it is bulbs - irises, watsonia, rain lilies, and amaryllis. The armadillos were terrorizing it, so I covered the whole thing with chicken wire. But now it is too difficult to weed it, and things aren't growing as well as they should. Plus I need some height in there, something shrubby, not sure what. Hydrangeas maybe. It doesn't get full sun there. I'll fix it in the fall. That's the best time to move bulbs. I'll need to figure out where to put all the bulbs I dig up.
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