quick post on the garden

in case anyone was wondering i just find it easier to focus my writings on this at the moment rather than my failing marraige. so, humor me ok?

today i awoke to stare out the bedroom window and what did i see? MORNING GLORYS! Yay! I feel so accomplished! So, I thought I had better take a closer look, I found 3 beautiful bloomed buds on the recently purchased canna. i love cannas, so tropical looking. i glanced to the north, under a mulched oak tree, ta da, more cannas are up. This floored me since I knew I had planted 3 or 4 bare root canna bulbs but it was so long ago, i couldn't remember where i had planted them. i was a bit upset thinking that surely enough time had passed, they should be up by now. well, they are, 3 to be exact. i don't even care if they bloom, lol. i've got more day lilies that i planted later than the first ones that are now in full bloom with shoots, so soon, they will be blooming also. its all making me feel better since the lilac bush had to be taken out, and the hydrangeas died. just when i was starting to think i had a black thumb, lol. a LOT of my annuals are looking bad. we had a bad couple of days with storms, heavy rain and big hail last night so i'm not sure if they will come back to anything or not. i moved my newly planted hostas to the front of the house this evening, realizing where i planted them was far too sunny.

I walked up to FILs this evening and helped him pick seconds on broccoli, a ton of cucumbers and zucchini. the deer got the second bunch of planted green beans so i helped him stake some pie tins. the reflection and movement of them in the wind scares the deer off. i'll have to get pics of his masses of gardens, and maybe a couple of my morning glorys!

oh- rock garden and stone walkway, I am proud to say are finally done! I am so happy, and so sore. Oh, for anyone planning on doing much digging, I have one word for you-GLOVES. Sometimes being a tom boy sucks, I think I feel tougher than I actually am. I ended up getting my hair cut and doing a parrafin wax hand dip, followed by applying 'working hands" lotion before bed and wearing gloves to bed. At least I didn't end up with the blisters that were trying to come up after digging.