And so it continues. My house is messier, what with two people home, but also cleaner, because I can’t ignore the dust and grease when I am here all day.
My garden is also getting more attention. Although we just missed the quarantine window for any significant spring planting (gardeners are not allowed to work here and I cannot plant trees by myself), I’m hunting down fungus and weeds with mild vengeance.
The native iris has joined us. Purple up baby, purple up.
The dicentra has made an appearance, falling into the arms of surrounding ferns.
The loropetalum, what a mellifluous name, kicked off its bloom early this year and has been flowering like gangbusters. Nicely startling against the coastal oak.
I left the dead stalks from last summer on one grass plant, and this spring the hellebore and hydrangea-to-be are pleased with the company.
I also took a few matters into my own hands, and crammed Spanish lavender into a pot with a maroon-leaved heuchera, along with a few nasturtium seeds. I am looking forward to a veritable profusion of orange flowers.
To say nothing of these.
Incipient rose.
Nature waits. I, one of the least patient people you have ever met in your entire life across the entire globe who isn’t a toddler, am trying to do the same.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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Lovely. Just looking at the pictures helped me to take a deep breath and relax. We can all use a little serenity right about now.
Thanks for the lovely pix, and your observant gardener’s commentary!
We are having an exceptionally pretty early spring here in Princeton – bulbs came out early and are still blooming. For the first time in my memory, our front garden has crocuses (croci?), hyacinths, and daffodils in bloom all at the same time – quite the seasonal display! Forsythia bushes and dogwood trees are rampant, and the magnolia buds are beginning to burst forth.
We all need beauty to cheer our days, especially when masks separate us…
I made one nonessential trip at the end of the second week of shelter: I drove 12 miles to pick up some free soaproot from somebody who offered them in an email group. I’ve wanted some for years, hadn’t been successful with seeds (probably because I haven’t done much propagating).
With the restrictions on county parks, etc., I am really enjoying plant pictures, including yours.
Gorgeous photos. Most in love with the loropetalum, dead stalks of grass plant (find dry grass plant sculpturally lovely), and those perfect incipient roses.
What you said about being an impatient person is familiar to me. I once said in earnest seriousness to my CEO, “I’m an impatient person.” He laughed and laughed, having observed this to him obvious trait in action. (In my defense, I’m politely impatient.:)
Happy Saturday at 12:14 p.m.
xo.
YOU CAN DO IT!
JUST THINK IF ANNE FRANK COULD DO WHAT SHE DID FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS YOU CAN DO IT!YOU HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA AND A COMPUTER AND A TV…………THIS IS EASY PEOPLE!
USE THIS TIME.
HOPEFULLY IT WILL NEVER COME AGAIN IN OUR LIFETIME!
CLEAN,COOK and READ……………YOU should have a CALMNESS OVER YOU AS There is NO RUSH TO BE somewhere or get things NONE!
YOU are on your own clock NOW!A REAL GIFT!
XX
It looks to me like you’ll have Spring before you know it.
The shutdown is not as strict here, we are allowed to have gardeners. But the fellow who does our lawn work went to El Salvador some weeks ago and now he’s stuck because they aren’t allowing people to come into the country. Yes, he is an American citizen. He does a lot of business in our immediate area, he’ll be busy when he finally makes it back.
It’s been quite nice here, slowly warming up. The trees are coming out, in a week or so there will be green dust all over everything. We’d be staying inside all the time to avoid the pollen.
Take care –
Your garden is so lovely Lisa and well-ahead of Missouri.
I laughed when you talked about “hunting
down fungus and weeds”. My father claimed that my Uncle Norman (who was beyond frugal) went to the woods and accidentally planted poison ivy in his back yard.
Please take care,
Luci
Nice to know someone else has the same amount of patience I do. No archeological digs for us!
Your garden is really lovely.
:)
Purple up
Well, I’m going to plant some wild flowers. I don’t know if they’ll grow but last year in Spring cleaning I found a packet of poppy seeds and threw them on the hillside and they actually grew. So this year I bought new seeds and will sow them tomorrow. With any luck I’ll have a hillside of wildflowers. Not sure if it takes patience. Just have to live long enough.
Your garden looks beautiful, tame and wild at the same time.
I loved seeing every one of your plants. Thank you for the tour.
Lovely that you are able to be out in your garden during these challenging weeks. I find weeding very soothing and the birdsong is beautiful.
I would desperately love to go to a garden centre but they like many shops are shuttered.
Perhaps we can use this time to divide our perennials and create some new vignettes.
Enjoy your weekend.
Apparently, there has been a run on seeds. I checked my heirloom seeds site and they are not taking new orders. But in Wisconsin, everyone gardens already, so inventory levels were set for that and there are plenty of seeds in the stores.
What I am worried about, though, is whether I will be able to get seedlings. The Serious Gardeners start their tomatoes from seed inside the house, but they do that in February. WHAT IF I CAN’T GET TOMATOES THIS YEAR? I started some from seed a few days ago, but I might be too late. :(
Still, like the characters in On the Beach, I planted.
I loved walking through your garden with you (happy memories ;-)
Your descriptions are evocative — and scrumptious! And I’m delighted to see that dicentra happily blooming there, just as it was in the woods we walked through up here last week. Cascadian cousins. . . .
Lovely setting you’ve shared. I envy your outdoor weather; we’re living under cold gray skies (literally and figuratively) in Oregon.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden with us, Lisa. In northern IL we are about a month away from such respite.
The garden is such a comfort at this time and yours is beautiful. Getting out in nature and doing some physical work to take your mind of things is such a tonic.
Love the photos of the garden. There will be future garden windows, and future opportunities, but in the meantime Natrue has a way of calming us and reminding us of constancy, and that all things will happen in their own time.
I love these photos, of the small details…..
Great collection of plants. With time on our hands and staying home, the garden makes a good past time. Everything is popping up in MA too. Looks like your plants survived the winter months nicely. Our garden centers are closed so no new purchases for the landscape. If you are to consider a future new tree, I can highly recommend the Coral Bark Japanese Maple. It is plum/coral throughout the winter months and features gold/orange leaves for Fall. Today it is still plum/coral but will leaf soon adding dark green to the color palate. For me, our gardens bring hope for better times and joy of seeing the garden rebirth that Spring brings.
Love the photos. I managed to snag a few plants for my patio pots just today. Btw, I think you were kind enough to visit my long-neglected blog and said hello. It’s been so long since I’ve posted and had visitors, much less comments, I reflexively deleted it before it could be posted. No offense, and thanks for dropping by.
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