Well, no new pictures, yet. I have spent the past 2 days potting up memorial planters for some customers of our former greenhouse, and working in my gardens. We fill the planters, deliver them to the cemeteries by Memorial Day, and pick the pots up at the end of the season. It is something I can still do without owning the greenhouses. It was hard to have to make a list of everything I needed, and to go to another greenhouse to buy the plants. I ended up making a second trip, because I hadn't counted right, or something, and needed more geraniums. It's much easier to "shop" as I plant, like I used to. But it is easier to plant during the day, most of the planters were potted after dark in the past, with lights in the greenhouses- one way to extend the work day. With all the planters ready for delivery, I spent the rest of my available daylight in my gardens, digging and planting.
My stone wall garden is finished! Well, at least the part below the wall, I need to plant the bed at the top of the wall. I am using a lot of perennials, I have a number of plants that I could divide. I have to purchase less annuals- real tight budget this year, but I need flowers about as much as I need fabric! By the end of today, I had potted up a bunch of extra Hostas, Echinacea, Hardy Geraniums, and more that I didn't have room to plant just yet. I even potted up a big hunk of a huge bluish Hosta in a big planter with a couple impatiens for my deck- It did'nt even wilt even with a very hot day, and the original plant in the garden doesn't look like anything was removed. Tomorrow, the top of the stone wall will be getting decked out with Siberian Iris and dark leaved, tall Sedums with trailing Petunias I started from seed. I just wish I had marked which clump of Iris is white, and which is purple. I guess if I just alternate some from each clump, I should get both colors. I do need to get better with labeling my plants, I know what they are, but can't always tell color, or variety until they bloom.
I will be posting more pictures after I get the whole wall done. That will be one (or 2) down, and 6 to go- I think- gardens everywhere! Lots more plants to be divided- been neglecting my babies for many years. I'm going to need a rainy day for quilting!
I am a former textile artist and new pattern designer with a degree in horticulture, wishing to share my love of nature, flowers and gardens with everyone through my photos, sunprinted fabrics, and now pattern designs. Chronic Lyme Disease has caused major changes to the direction my life. I have to limit the amount of time spent digging in my gardens, and quilting has become more difficult. I discovered pattern design as a way to get art back into my life. I now use my gardens and photos to inspire designs that can be used on fabrics and print on demand items.
