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It's soooo cool - I've never seen one that shape before, and now it's in my front yard! Huzzah!
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Also cool is the number of things that survived last year despite all of my best (worst?) efforts. For example, there's the 10 clumps of black-eyed susans that I transplanted from my neighbor's garden ... when they were in full bloom ... in July ... when it was like 95 degrees and I didn't have the bed ready for them yet. Yeah, that was a good idea! But they all managed to straggle back this year, so any bunnies in the neighborhood should be fully fed and happy this summer.
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There's not much going on the in the vegetable garden yet ... today was the official date of last frost for our zone, so I haven't bothered to mess with it much yet. But the oregano that survived the winter is happy. Anybody want to come make lots and lots and lots of pizza sauce?
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And finally, on my list of "holy crap, how did I do that?" triumphs, we have the jack-in-the-pulpit plant that I bought at great expense last year, watched sit there and be sullen for most of the summer, let go to seed, had a hard time finding this spring, found out that they're hard to naturalize in gardens and I might have to replant them this year, and all of the sudden there were four of them last week. Yay, me!
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I've got a lot more planned to add this year, including a giant new bed at the back of the property which STILL hasn't emerged from its waterlogged status enough that I can start amending it, much less plant anything, and some overgrown and under-planned beds we inherited with the house that need some major rearranging and/or trashing. Should be fun!
Three cheers for the plant volunteers!
ReplyDeleteAnd I am most impressed by the lack of grass and the lack of leaves around all of these plants!