It’s a rainy, nearly-chilly weekend. We badly need the rain and the cool temperatures are an excellent excuse to stay cozy at home, so I don’t mind much.
I walked around outside between cloudbursts and noticed how the yard projects are coming along. My Garden Gal has done so much to bring this first phase into being and I’ve contributed some efforts as well.
Gorgeous clumps of bright day lilies are blooming in the front yard, many of which are the result of friends splitting bulbs for me.
The herb garden by the mailbox is taking off. I moved my bottle tree there, too. Might as well stop the bad juju at the road.
In the back, I’ve built a “drip fountain” that should attract some songbirds. Turns out birds prefer ground-level bathing and like to be able to dart into cover if a hawk spits them. The drip is loud enough to a bird to advertise the location and the whole thing was super-easy to construct. Click here for details. Seriously, you probably have everything you need in the house already, and it takes about 10 minutes.
And the plantings at the back – shrubs like that golden-leafed illicium and small trees like red-twig dogwoods, are stretching their roots and deciding to stay.
There’s so much still to do, but progress is being made!
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