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Shed Redo
Jul 23, 2007 | 11:18 AM PST
Tag: Shed Redo

Another beautiful day for gardening. Can't believe how the weather has been co-operating the last several days with more promised to come. Of course that means almost no rain, so up goes the water bill. Most of my garden has been in place for a few years and doesn't need a lot of watering, just when it gets really dry in the area.

Have gotten up all the debri from having small trees, honeysuckle vine cut out and overgrown bushes taken down in the area of my shed. Will post a picture of the clean ground this evening after the sun goes low in the sky. Did take a chance and transplanted a Texas Star hibiscus to that area. Hope it will be OK.  It was not getting enough light/nutrients where it was hiding under the huge Angel Trumpet.

Filled two trash bags full of branches, grass and vines and  the old city dumpster is full as well.  The city will pick it all up tomorrow. That is such a great service.  To think I might just get all that organic matter back as mulch in a few months. We knew that the mulch was often steaming when we picked it up but did not think about it and put the fresh, hot mulch down in the garden early one spring. I went out the next day and my plants were burned. Did not lose many of them, but we know now to let that hot stuff cool down before using it in the garden.

I thought I had purchased a perennial variegated hibiscus and discovered today that it is a tropical and will have to come indoors for the winter. Went to plant it in the ground and in looking closely recognized that woody stem of a tropical. Nuts! I really wanted that thing to be perennial, Oh well, it will be beautiful in the new pot I will now have to buy.

Going to work on the butterfly cage this evening after it cools some.  Should not be hard or take long but will need the hubby to hold parts of the screens while I drill. Look for pictures on the photo page soon.

Got to go for now.  More to come Later.