SheriLL123's Blog

I picked up another 1/2 yard soil yesterday and Hubby was nice enough to shovel it all for me while I made supper last night.  This AM I went out and finished planting the tomatoes and peppers and got the last of the seeds in (at least for a couple weeks)  I'm trying to control myself and plant in secession.  Now all that's left is to make the veggie spot 'pretty'.  Hubby wants to mulch all around it.  He decided the compost pile would go back there too (right where we plan on putting another bed this fall).  The radish seeds I planted Sat. are already sprouting.  I'd forgotten how fast they grow.

After I finished I decided to go around front and start cleaning out my beds out front.  My White bird of Paradise has sent out a big flower bud.  I love to watch those open.  One of the crotons I thought had died last year is coming back behind the fountain grass.  I was surprised 'cause I had cut it to the ground.  Oh, and I found the coolest spider wed.  I have never seen one like it before.  It was shaped like a funnel and there is an opening in the bottom.  Neat!  I put a picture of it in my pictures.  I haven't figured out how to put pics in here yet.   

I'm trying to decide what to border my beds with out front.  We used to have a 'dwarf' form of fountain grass that was very pretty but after a few years it wasn't dwarf anymore.  It would get so big they hid  everything else in the beds.  Last year we tried a verigated lithrope.  All the ones on the left side died and the one on the right side look very sad.  Hubby thought that some of the Daylilies at Walmart were 'cool'  I might try that but I am trying to keep the front looking very 'tropical'.  I guess I'll keep looking.