gardenfun's Blog

First Blog
Jan 20, 2008 | 10:57 AM PST
Tags: plant light , voles , stone walls , new gardens , garden photos , garden posters

Hey Folks,

I just signed up for this, so I'm posting pictures and hopefully I will have some fun with it.   I need some garden buddies to share stuff with.  

Again in 2008 I hope to document with photos more of my gardens.   I hope to soon have some garden posters posted also that I can make cheaply, so if anyone is interested let me know and I will print those out and get them to you.

I have plans for about three new stone wall gardens to be made this year.  These also will be fun to document with before and after photos.  Two of them will be ho-hum designs so I can move a couple of bushes to sunnier locations. One however that I really want to build will be in the center of my back yard.  It will be multi tiered and very complex with paths running through it.  It most likely will become my premier garden and it might take this summer and next to complete.

OH!  I almost forgot... I've put up a small decorative wooden fence on my property line to I can grow some flowers around it.  It's only 24' long, but it gives me structure to plant roses and iris and such around it.  The big plus is that the wood was free.  It's all from tree limbs that I have been taken out of my yard.  Colleen if you sign up for this..... thanks for the idea!  She saw the tree limbs that I've trimmed the past year or two stacked near my compost pile and told me I had to put them to some good use.

I have also set up plant lights in my basement to keep me busy during these winter months.  Right now Cat Nip is the big winner growing under the lights.  Next month I can start seeds to be planted out in the garden when spring arrives.  Woo-hoo!

I've also been making wire cages to go around the roots of my plants to keep out the voles.  I'm getting tired of seeing a plant just get to that point of really looking beautiful only to have it's roots eaten by the damned voles.  Grrrr.....  I have tried everything on the market to get rid of them and nothing seems to work so this is my latest course of action.  It's a  bit time consuming, but hopefully it's going to save me time and money down the road.

I hope that being online here will be fun.

R.