AngelsGarden's Blog

Well, I have never done any blogging before.  I am hoping that this will help me to be more organized like a garden journal of sorts.  Where to start, how about what I have accomplished so far this spring.  We had planted a pink dogwood in the front yard last year.  A little too late in the spring and the tree was pretty small. The summer heat scorched the poor thing to death.  When I checked it out in early Feb. it was very brittle and completely dead.  I found another one at the Garden Center that looked great (even though it didn't even have any leaves on it yet).  Its taller than me and was only $25.00.  We loosened the soil again and added more soil to raise the bed to make the bed more of a focal point.  There were fire ants on one side of the bed and they were going crazy.  Both hubby and I got bit.  My rubber coated garden gloves helped though.  We planted the tree, put in some fertilizer stakes, trimmed some very low branches, and wrapped the trunk with...I guess its called tree wrap.  Then we planted pink creeping phlox in a few places and added lily and gladiolus bulbs and added mulch.  We are hoping that the phlox will take over and the bulbs will come up in the spring through it. Then when they are done we can cut them back and still have the phlox to enjoy through the last of the summer.  Since we did all of that the tree has done well, it has leafed out nicely and we are hoping it does great there.  Last night we added a stake out at the side of the bed and pulled the trunk a little straighter, it had a little curve in the trunk.  When it gets older maybe it will stay where we pulled it to.  Maybe they should call this babbling instead of blogging??  LOL                           
    Later,

                         
                              
  Angela