leah's Blog

Entry for May 18, 2007
May 18, 2007 | 9:52 PM PST
Tags: greenhouse , pergola , moratorium , bamboo windchimes , beans , peas , birds , lilacs , rugosa rose , iris , groundcover , marigold , petunia , pansy , rainy weather , pussy willow

<growl>  I just wrote a whole entry and then when I went to post it the auto time out had logged me out.  What an annoyingly short time period.

There's no way I'm going to remember to update this thing every day, that's becoming clear.

It's been rainy, cooler, and windy this week, so I'm not getting much done out in the yard.  Which is actually just what I needed, because while we were spending all our time outside, the *inside* has been going to pot!  We're having a dozen people over on Sunday afternoon, and I'd've been ashamed to have company with the state of our house earlier this week.  It's looking better now.  :)

I did get some stuff done--I got some of my ornamental pots planted.  The smaller urn already had purple pansies in it, but the dogs have knocked it over half a dozen times, so it needed to be topped off.  And moved!  I did the larger urn in marigolds, purple petunias, and ivy.  And a hanging basket in ivy, nestled in the pussy willow.  I did two window boxes off the side of the back porch, both in marigolds and a silver vining groundcover I forget the name of.  I still have some annuals and ivy left, and a dozen or so ornamental pots.  I just need some potting soil.

My beans and peas are sprouting, I'll put them out in the bed early next week once they're big enough to not be so tempting to the birds.  The irises are blooming.  The lilacs are done for the year.  The rugosa roses are going strong, and they smell heavenly, even from 15 feet away.

With the wind, I couldn't help but put out the bamboo windchimes I hadn't hung yet.  They're scattered around the yard, and I love the sound of them.  The new one I just bought dropped a chime already, and needs to be repaired.  I don't understand why they don't build them more durably; it didn't even last 24 hours.

I moved all my unplanted plants over out of the way, since they were accumulating and looking pretty cluttered.  They nearly cover a 4x4 ft piece of plywood.  I am now instituting a moratorium on purchasing plants until they are all in the ground.  Or pots.  ;)  I managed to resist temptation when I walked through the Walmart nursery this afternoon.  I may make an exception for perennials on clearance at Lowe's.

Started looking into permits for the greenhouse and the pergola.