Memorial Day weekend may be the traditional start of summer, but someone forgot to tell the weather in Seattle. At least I won't get sunburnt, working in the yard.
Looking out the window, you'd be hard pressed to believe it's almost June. It's cold. It's wet. It's gray. It's definitely Seattle, but the end of May?
Oh well, despite the weather, the garden is giving us signs of hope that summer can't be far away!
The Ladies Mantle is tossing out loads of chartreuse fluff....
Salvia 'Raspberry Delight' delights me!
The front yard is about to be a mass of lily blooms--Red and Orange first, then yellow, then pink--then the Orientals! Lilies from now until August! Hooray!
The iris are placeholders for lilies to come. And honest, when I planted them, I took the blue ones and the yellow ones, mixed them up and planted them. I don't know how they ended up so separate!!
I love this lupine...it's more than waist high on me. I rescued several little plants when my mother-in-law was ripping them out as weeds. Just goes to show you that weeds are truly in the eye of the beholder!
That's about it for today from my wet, soggy Seattle garden. Here's hoping for sunshine and some warmth!! (My tomatoes really want to move outside--the laundry room is getting a little cramped!!)
Don't forget to go on over to Tootsie's and see who else is flaunting their flowers this Friday!
Labels: Fertilizer friday, ladies mantel, lupine, May 2010, poppy, salvia
Sunday night, another good weekend of gardening in. Working out front this evening, the neighborhood "yardcare guy" slowed his battered pick-em-up truck down in front, where I was doubledigging a bed and said "Your yard looks great. ..Sure you don't want a yard care service?". I told him that I really enjoy doing it myself. And I do!!
The hellebores continue to go strong. Ciscoe was right, cut off those old leaves! And those bleeding hearts...I love 'em.
Labels: april 2010, bloomsday, spring
This weekend, "gardening" has consisted mostly of pulling dandelions and grass from the main lily bed out front. It's my own fault, I kind of let it go last fall, when I thought we were re-doing the whole front yard. We didn't, and suddenly it's an all weekend project... The lilies are going to be amazing, though. A couple years ago, I gave into one of those deals you just can't pass up--125 or so mixed asiatic and oriental lily bulbs... The first year, there were a few lilies...they went in a little late...
The second year, there were more....
If the little green shoots popping up EVERYWHERE are predicting anything, it's that there are going to be A LOT of lilies out there.
I'm going to remove the rest of (the last of!!) the grass out there, and install a couple small raised beds for tomatoes and squash--they'll get more direct sunshine out front than in back. But still, the front yard is all about the lilies.