gardening | Photos: House Yard and South Lot

These pictures are from Sunday, but it's after midnight so the timestamp will say Monday. See the savanna and house yard.

The leaves have been raked off the rain garden. Several lavender crocuses are blooming there.

The leaves have been raked off the rain garden.

A sparrow perches in a bush in the house yard.

At the edge of the purple-and-white garden are the five new cobblestones I bought.

Something has dug a hole here, probably a squirrel. Few of the bulbs in this garden are tasty -- many are alliums -- but squirrels still like to bury nuts and stuff on their own.

These spring bulbs are sprouting in the purple-and-white garden.

The new picnic table holds two finished flats of pots plus the new flat and some larger pots.

These are the three test labels after two months of exposure. The old Sharpie marker is barely legible. The other two are still quite clear.

Here is a closer view of all three.

This is the old Sharpie marker label. You can see how it's just a collection of dots with faint lines connecting them. The darker dots show where the marker paused, depositing more ink.

The white garden stands at the southwest corner of the driveway.

Tiny snowdrops are just beginning to bloom.

The wagonwheel garden stands at the northwest corner of the driveway.

This is my new pink rock with big chunks of mica. I'd like to get a second one so I can point them in opposite directions. The idea is to have the mica act as a reflector at night.

Here are the 'Royal Family' hollies. Some of the leaves are browning despite the ground being mud, likely due to the desiccating winter winds.

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I love that idea, with the mica! Thank you so much for the tour! I did wind up joining the Gardening community, too, so thank you for that encouragement also. It's so motivating and inspiring to see what other folks do with their gardens.

>> I love that idea, with the mica! <<

I saw the sparkly things at the nursery and coveted them. :D We've had plastic reflectors on stakes, but they don't stay put very well. A rock will not budge easily. Once the ground thaws, I'll have a go at cleaning the edge of the wagonwheel garden to figure out where to fit the new one(s) permanently and then dig down a little.

>> Thank you so much for the tour! <<

You're welcome. :D I post these when I have a chance, often a lot in spring and some in summer. If you hit the Photo tag in my blog you can find the older ones.

>> I did wind up joining the Gardening community, too, so thank you for that encouragement also. It's so motivating and inspiring to see what other folks do with their gardens.<<

Yay! I love that people share things from many different habitats.

Lovely and inspiring. Love you choice of rocks both the white and the pink.

The bed borders are old, old things -- probably made from random glacier rocks turned up in the fields. If I were starting from scratch I'd probably use brick, like I have around some of the newer trees. But I really like cobblestones for edging, so I'm buying a few at a time when I can. The wagonwheel garden has some larger, more upright rocks which is part of what gave me the idea to put the pink mica there.

I'm still not completely sure where I want to put the fossil rock though. It needs to be somewhere I can see it all the time, but out of the way -- and where if it falls over it'll land on soft ground and hopefully not break. But I'll be burying about a third of its height so it should stay put. What works with a megalith should work with a microlith!

Hope it turns out the way you want it.

Mica, here in E Tennessee traditionally was used to reflect back ill will. This is the 2nd time in two days I've heard mica mentioned. I think I might be getting a "hint" that I should get some;>!
Cheers,
Pat(who's enjoying today's weather enough to put out a tray of Mt Mint to harden off)

>> Mica, here in E Tennessee traditionally was used to reflect back ill will. <<

Yes, like painting your porch roof haint blue.

>> This is the 2nd time in two days I've heard mica mentioned. I think I might be getting a "hint" that I should get some;>! <<

Agreed.

>> Cheers,
Pat(who's enjoying today's weather enough to put out a tray of Mt Mint to harden off) <<

It's cloudy and windy here. However, I have several types of native mint seeds snoozing in flats on the picnic tables outside. That way they can sprout whenever they feel like it's time, but they are protected from weeds and other ground-based hazards. When I walk past the pots, I can hear the seeds going "zzzzz" like tiny botanical snores. :D

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