New Years Eve - dinner at Brennan's with Bert, Mom, Dad, Gretchen, Keith, Beckett, Josh, Amy, Nancy and Lisa. Played games at Nancy's. Drove to the farm the next morning.
- Mostly, I just raked leaves and dumped them behind the Vegetable Garden for later use. Fallen leaves are a very important part of my gardening - the conditioning of my soil. I rake up as many as my energy level and my interest level will allow. The more the better.
- I watered my new camellias.
- I watered in the Rose Garden. It's really dry.
- My seedlings are coming along nicely. There are seedlings and small plantlets everywhere in the Rose Garden: coreopsis, verbena, poppies, daisies, brown eyed Susans, blue bonnets, tall poppy mallow, Johnny jump ups, purple phacelia, spurred snapdragon. It's so much fun seeing everything grow.
- Unfortunately, the sprinkler system is acting up. There does not seem to be any water pressure, and the sprinklers don't rotate in the Star Garden. They just spray in one spot. I will have to find someone to come out and take a look. There is a leak somewhere or some such problem, I will have to get it resolved before the summer temperatures set in. If this happened in June or July, etc., I would be in a complete panic.
- A few things I did during my short stay last weekend: I planted more herbs in the Kitchen Herb Garden - 2 oregano , 2 winter savory, 5 marjoram, and 1 sage. I planted 3 wormwood in the Medicine Garden.
- Last weekend I also planted 6 Summer Nocturne Crinums in the Long Border. Crinums do well in the Long Border - they do well anywhere. Nothing can kill them.Without regular irrigation in the bed, I have decided to resort to bulbs such as crinums, paperwhites, and amaryllis. Over the last two seasons I have also added 3 altheas. I've been impressed with their drought tolerance.
- Drove in to work on Thursday morning.
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