I suck at blogging!!!

Here we are, almost 2 years after I started this. Ouch...well my excuse is TIME FLIES, especially when you are planting in the garden. On the bright side, I have learned a LOT!!, Succeeded and failed with a LOT of plants, and the dogs have killed some. Raven by "watering" them an Puppy, for some reason that little dog HAS to sit on plants. When one is crushed, he moves on to the next.

Last spring I FINALLY found a double bridal wreath spirea. For those who know something about me, I love white in the garden, especially at night. Long story short, I wasn't the only one who was excited. Apparently there's nothing more comfortable to sit on than my new double bridal wreath spirea. Sssssshh don't say anything, but I did get some green growth on it this spring, and I hope someone doesn't remember how comfy he was laying on that shrub!


Since it's been a while this is a perfect time for before and afters...

The top one is from May of 2007, and the bottom one the same area in April of 09.

May 15...gotta start somewhere

First Day... wow.. a blank slate.. seems kinda scary. What to add, put in, and not to mention leave out...

Well it's been a gorgeous sunny day.. probably in the mid 90's.. but a slightly high humidity. Peaches are ripe and delicious, that's a fact my 4 leggers agree on. Especially Raven... He LOVES picking peaches..yum..yum...He's not a dog food kinda guy. I don't mind really, what I don't like him for is the use of my plants as substitute fire hydrants. That's what happened to my would have been prized Dahlia. I thought I was in the clear. He kept ignoring the little sprout as it grew, larger and stronger, and then it formed a bud. Still he had NO interest in my precious (for the time being un-named) dahlia. The bud grew larger, and was just about to open, then he discovered it, inaugurating it with a nice spray and subsequently sat on it...I was devastated, but it still had enough strength to flower even though its hugging the ground.

Had more luck with the Nenekazi... I think that bloom is gorgeous, can't really describe it. Everything is growing...well mostly everything, I did lose some plants during "the big chill"