Sunday, April 4, 2010

A Week of New Beginnings

I've been a little behind in posts these past couple of weeks because I'm doing something radical...gardening!  Between changing out some major containers in the penthouse garden, tearing out and replanting some huge beds at the Big House, and getting a bunch of big projects done in the Stepchild Garden for the Tour, it seems there is little time for anything else!

Between Friday and yesterday Chuck and I managed to tear out about 50 substantial shrubs in front of the Big House (which had been in place for ten years....with roots to match), and got about that same number  of different things planted.  Making great progress, but this old body hurts this morning!

Mom won't be happy that I'm not in church, but today's the morning to put up the new fence in the Stepchild Garden, finally finish the painting on the "not shed," and keep plugging away at the weeding, mulching, and general stuff.  Even Frank is breaking his personal rule about not going outside...he's the tallest, so he gets to paint the peaks of the not shed.  Let's just hope he doesn't see a bug, or the painting will never get done!

Three of the renovated containers outside the penthouse breakfast room

8 comments:

  1. Tim,
    I thought gardening was church.

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  2. Whoooooa! You've been super-busy! Nice to hear that though. You must've gotten great exercise pulling out such old plants

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  3. If you moved 50 shrubs yesterday, I'm amazed that you are able to work again today. Go for it!

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  4. It is great that you can get the work done, barring all bugs. I like that. I have garter snakes and I have finally become use to having them around. I don't like to kill things but I do use the mower when it is handy to cut down on the population. When the sit in bushes and watch me go buy I do draw the line. It's me or them. I posted a fence from a book on my creative zone that I was impressed with. If I move to a new property, I want that to be my new fence.

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  5. I have been able to enjoy a little radical gardening myself, but there just isn't enough time in the day.

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  6. Isn't it wonderful to tear things out to edit or just garden in a new way. Looks like you have been a busy boy!

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  7. I bet you are tired from all that work in two different gardens. I bet you are happy to have accomplished so much.

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  8. I'm a mom and absolve you from being in church. The garden is about as close to God as one can be. Happy spring :)

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