witt's Blog

When I finally got a chance to write my blog yesterday, I couldn't get into this site. Then this morning I still had trouble. Is it me or the site?

My tall iris were bent over from the cold yesterday, but they eventually stood back up. They're still not blooming yet.  I got my flowers planted. What a chore. Even after all these years of planting and replanting, mulching, lime, and compost, the Hibiscus Garden is still clay and rock riddled. POH (That's "poor old husband") was cutting debris in the woods with the chain saw. While we were taking a break, I kept eyeing that rosemary on the corner of the back flower bed. I figured since he was using the chain saw, why not go ahead and cut it down. Wouldn't you know it, the chain saw refused to crank up again. He decided that he could saw it down with his pruning saw. That took awhile because the trunk was huge, but he was determined to do it. It took forever to get that sucker up. She was well-rooted. I took my clippers and kept clipping back the smaller roots while he dug away with the shovel. Between the two of us, we finally got it out of the ground. It looks so much better. Underneath where the rosemary had grown over, there was the concrete pad that we had there for the hose cart with two bricks cemented in. Uh, oh, I think. No worry. POH got the slegehammer and busted that away. I got the area half cleaned up. I'll work on that today.