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Entry for May 13, 2007
May 14, 2007 | 10:54 PM PST
Tags: cape daisy , mother's day , petunia , azalea , primrose , mailbox , vinca , mr k , beast , orchid , seeds

Mother's Day, slept through the alarm and just barely made it awake in time to get to church with my mother.  Snuck in just as the service was starting.  Was running so late I left the blueberry bushes and the card home, but it's not like I was dressed for planting anyway.  I'll go put them in the ground later this week.

By the time I got back home, after going to my grandparents' house with my mother to deliver a hanging basket overflowing with pink petunias, Mr K had been working out in the yard for a good long while, from the looks of things.  The mailbox area has now undergone a massive renovation.  He put one of the azaleas, both primroses, and a few of the leftover vincas from a prior trip out there.  What use to be about an 18" diameter circle around the mailbox is now nearly 10' long and 8' wide.  It still has some more room to plant things, but that's OK because we still have some more things to plant.  Of course the rest of the mulch was still in the back of the beast, so he was eagerly awaiting my return.

He's really been doing a lot out there this week.  But now we need to start concentrating on inside, because we're having company next Sunday, and we've been spending every waking minute on yard-related stuff, and that doesn't leave much time for keeping the inside tidy.  With 3 dogs and 2 cats running around, just the shed hair at this time of the year is overwhelming.

Gave Mr K's mom a pot of purple Cape Daisies for her birthday, and a hanging pot of vincas for Mother's Day.  Gave Sylvia an orchid.  I do believe that's the first time I've ever seen Cape Daisies before, and I'll be looking for seeds for next year.  They were neat looking.

Entry for May 12, 2007
May 14, 2007 | 10:40 PM PST
Tags: mr k , peppers , blueberry , azalea , primrose , sedum , corsican mint , horseradish , chives , variegated peppermint , bamboo windchimes , zen garden

So Mr K got home on Saturday and off we went to Peppers.  I *love* that place.  They don't accept plastic, and every time we go we end up spending every last dime we have on us, and sometimes we have to go to the grocery store a few miles down the road and get more.

This time we came home with 2 blueberry bushes (a Mother's Day gift for my mother), 2 magenta colored azaleas, 2 evening primroses, a black pine, 3 pots of Dragon's Blood sedum, a dozen pots of Corsican Mint, a pot of horseradish, two pots of chives, [to be edited when I get home and can look at the pile].  Oh, and a huge set of bamboo wind chimes.  I have a weakness for bamboo wind chimes.

He set to work planting things as soon as we got home, while I ran back out to Lowe's to fetch him some more cedar mulch.  I picked up 3 more trowels, too, since it seems like I'm always looking for one.

The black pine went in over where the Zen garden will be.  They're such slow growers, we figured we may as well go ahead and get it in now, with a nice healthy dose of compost, and get it growing.  His mother used to have two of them out in her front yard, but she didn't like the way they looked and chopped them down.  I haven't been over to see what else he put in over there, but when I dropped off the mulch, he had about a 6' diameter vaguely circle-ish area cleared of sod.

It's too bad he got home so late, we ran out of light not too long after we got home.

First mosquito bite of the season tonight.