Sunday Yardening

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today is gray and hot.

I planted a yellow raspberry in the patch by the orchard.  I planted a white spruce tree at the edge of the savanna near the old fish pond. 

EDIT 5/13/18: I put covers and mulch over the new plants, and watered them.  It's 90 out, so I have to work in small stages. :/

EDIT 5/13/18: I planted wild ginger, yellow violet, Solomon's seal, and celandine poppy in the forest garden outside the kitchen window.

EDIT 5/13/18: I weeded the goddess garden and put the ceramic goddess statue back in the center.  Happily, most of the thyme from last year survived, it's just sprouting slowly.  I planted a Foxley thyme (which is variegated) and a silver thyme there.

EDIT 5/13/18: In the white garden at the end of the driveway, I planted artemesia.  I also potted up a set of three different basil plants in the oval trough.

Comments

[pronker]

Is there a map of where the plantings are, or are the locations committed to memory? It's daunting to consider all these types on a big lot, as well as pleasant to think of all the greenery. :)

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Not really. I do have broad groupings: the woodland wildflowers go in the forest garden by the kitchen window, the prairie ones in the wildflower garden in the savanna or in the prairie meadow itself, the goddess garden currently holds thymes, etc. I can visually identify many, though not all, of the plants. I do try to put labels on things.

But stuff comes in and dies off rapidly enough that it's hard to keep track precisely. Labels get lost or mixed around. Last summer I lost track of which pepper plants were which until they fruited, because the damn pots blew over so many times that it all got mixed together. >_<

This year, I bought cheap heavy potting soil. I have one new trough planter and want to get more. Hopefully things will stay put better.