The Circus Has Left Town

Remember my vegetable garden last year? Looked like a circus and it was in my front yard. 

 This is what it looks like now. I planted some bushes from the clearance table at Walmart. Cinnamon bush. It is supposed to have some nice color in the fall. I had never even seen a Cinnamon bush until I saw them on the clearance table for $7, marked dwn 50%. I have already forgotten what the other one is. Coral bells in between the bushes. I am appalled to tell you I paid FULL PRICE. It hurt me, but I wanted the color.

Here is a better picture. I still need to mulch and I planted some Marigold and Zinnia seeds and am impatient for them to come up. I will harvest the seedlings and use them in all the gardens, then I will mulch this garden. I hunted down all the rocks. I am disappointed in the quality of the grass. I need a load of top soil dumped here before I reseed it. This is rocky clay soil.

Remember the Maple saplings I braided together and hauled from Missouri? This one is doing quite well. I will be mulching around this tree, too.

The garden facing the ravine behind my house is doing okay, needs a refresh on the mulch, but I had very few weeds to pull. The groundcover sedum I love so well is thriving. Next season it will take over that area and eliminate the need for mulch. I love this stuff. It will grow in the sun or shade and all you need to do is pull up a handfull and toss it down where you want it to grow. I am hoping it will creep down the ravine and choke out the weeds that want to grow there.

My peony is thriving. I have three of them and tomorrow one of them will be moving up the embankment tomorrow. I need a larger plant up there to fill in a space in the sun. If you look down to the very end, you will see an azalea. I am trying to propagate some new plants from clippings. I think these bright pink azaleas would look lovely on the other side of the driveway .... if I am careful to put them far enough away from the driveway. There is a very steep drop on that side of the drive that goes down to the next driveway. I am also trying to get a good root structure from a branch of Dogwood tree. If that works I will be making more trees. I can just see Dogwood trees lining the drive with azaleas tucked in between the trees.

As ambitious as it sounds, I can think of nothing I would rather be doing! This year, as I am raking up the leaves and small branches that fell I am finding it much easier than last year. All that work clearing out the woods has paid off.

What will I do tomorrow? Look in my bucket. There are several large clumps of daylillies and some yellow iris. I picked these up before we went eat our Friday night fried fish. Saw an ad on Marketplace and this man was selling these for $2 a plant. I wanted 10 daylillies, but he was generous with the shovel. So, for $20 I have a bucket full of freshly dug plants. They will need the sun, so I will be working up by the She Shed. He Who says he does not feel well and will be holding down his recliner .....