AngelsGarden's Blog

We bought a new weedeater / edger yesterday.  It is the electric / rechargable type.  It came with 2, 18volt batteries, they take 9 hrs to charge the first time!!  Other than the fact that you have to wait on the batteries to charge, the weedeater works great.  And I really appreciate not having to smell fumes when my husband is using it. 

So, this morning my hubby used the weedeater while I did laundry.  Then we went out to a Easter Egg hunt for the kids.  They had fun, but we didn't linger too long.  Since we have been wanting to do the privacy fence so badly we needed to get some prices.  We made a trip into town for that.  A wooden fence will run about $2,500 and a vinyl fence about $5,500.  Pretty steep price for sure.  We bought some tree fertilizer stakes and a couple of different kinds of tomato plants.  One is a Black Prince and the other is a Yellow Pear.  Looking forward to tasting some of those.

When we got home hubby did some more edging and mowed in the front.  I potted up some odds and ends that needed homes.  They will live on the porch now.  A few small Split leaf plants, 3 caladium bulbs and 4 wax begonia plants that actually survived the winter and were sprouting new leaves.  Hopefully they will make a pretty combination together.

The big job of the day was this evening.  We revamped the front perennial bed.  It was a little on the brutal side.  I felt so bad ripping out so many plants.  All of the ornamental kale is out, and all of the pansies were either moved or out.  The next thing to receive some brutality were the irises.  Once I started on them though I was glad that I did.  The rhizomes that I started with originally were ready to be thrown out for sure.  All of the new, good sized rhizomes were kept, though we didn't even replant half of them.  I was surprised that the ones that had bloomed weren't even that big, they were all crowded already though. 

So, in went the Daylilies, Crinum, Calla Lilies, Spring bulbs that we moved around in the bed, Iris that we moved around in the bed, 1 Carnation, and 20 Verbena. 

We left in place the Rose, Lavenders, Narcissus and all of the plants that are back against the house.

I had also transplanted some volunteer Cosmos from the front section of the bed. I think I saved about 8, they were planted up against the house since they were soooooo tall last year. 

I can't wait to see how it looks in a month or so.  I will take some pics so we can see the progress from now on.

Here are some pictures I snapped before I started on this redo.