momma's little garden fairie...

Last Tuesday I worked in our front yard for a few hours while Caleb rode all his wheeled toys up and down and all around the cul-de-sac and Molly "helped" me by trying to eat mulch, dumping flowers out of their pots and walking out into the middle of the driveway only to strand herself (because the incline was (it's old hat now) too steep for her to stand herself back up and she hates crawling on concrete...and really who can blame her?).

Anyway, I managed to get my clematis vines all untangled and back in order all the while losing probably twenty buds about to burst...bummer. I was pleasantly surprised the following day though...lots of blooms and more leaves too...I guess all the pinching back let the plant put its energy where it should've been going in the first place. After the clematis clinic, I pruned a couple of our trees back...Lynn was tired of hunching down to get around them when mowing and since I don't mow, it was the least I could do...so as not to have to hear about the hunching this season. And lastly since only two gerbera daisies and two tiny-red-mounding-flowers-that-I-can't-remember-the-name-of survived my brown thumbs last year I planted more gerbera daisies and trmfticrtno as well as some ranunculus (found at Wal-Mart for one dollar a pot!), lantana and salvia.



Clearly yardwork is tiring stuff.

Once everything is plugging along I'll snap another picture to show how things are coming...so far so good. Is it possible that this could be my banner gardening year? One can hope :).