Our big excitement at the moment is the garden plan. My neighbor lent me a bunch of her gardening books, and I'm working on my first actual plan for the garden. Previously we would just find something pretty at the garden center, bring it home, and then try to figure out where to put it. I've pulled out a bunch of plants that I don't want, prepared most of the vegetable plots, and planted the potatoes, garlic, carrots and a new lime tree. The rest will need to wait a couple of months.
Lantana will be going in between the lemon, lime, & cherry trees
What? You wanted pictures of the kids and California? Check back tomorrow!
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Welcome back! Check out my blog too, I just posted yesterday. Evangeline is 6 months old already! She is a lot of fun now! I look forward to hearing about your garden. We like that picture you have of the flower. Hans would love to grow a lemon tree. I don't think it would work here. It is warmer than WI or IA but we have a foot of snow right now. Post again soon!!!!
Ummmm.....you could also ask your landscape architect sister about such things..... :-)
I'm trying to rein in Dan already... He's talking about changing the enormous poured concrete patio (which has spacers between squares to plant ground cover that WILL bake in the summer sun and die so why do we ever bother trying?). I'm trying to tell him that's garden version 3.4. I'm working on 2.0 at the moment. No major changes to any of the hardscape. Trading out potato vine for hops on the pergola, adding echinacea and coreopsis to the hillside and pulling out the rangy grasses that were never more than lumps situated 2 feet away from one another. Also pulling out a lot of licorice, which grows to mammoth balls that are entirely dead inside, so pruning just makes them look worse. My big goal is to put in plants that actually fit the space I'm putting them in to. Shocking, huh?
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