On Gardening…

I’m not really sure what’s going on.  Some of the stuff in my flower beds is doing really well.  Other stuff, not so much.

The Columbine, thriving…

the annual phlox, not thriving…

the Irises, thriving…

the Salvia, really not thriving…

It probably doesn’t help that the dog routinely uproots my plants and/or lies on them and/or digs immediately beside or on top of them.

Take for example my Heather plants.  I had two.  I planted them both.  I now have one.  I wasn’t entirely sure what had happened until I found the second one completely shredded on the lawn.  Stupid dog.

Oops

It appears that I was a bit too hasty in my “SPRINGISHERESPRINGISHERE” enthusiasm.  Kind of a “Chicken Little”-type thing.

Here’s the forecast for today:

a balmy +3 degrees.

And, I kid you not, it was snowing.  I’m so disgusted.

Here’s Monday’s forecast:

a balmy +1 degree.

I could cry.

In fact, I am crying.

I’ve also eaten 5-too many bites of super delicious creamy mashed potatoes, and I’m feeling a little sick.  And remorseful.  You’d think I’d have stopped after 1-too many, but I’m a glutton.

I will now go bury my head in the pillows and will not emerge until the threat of snow is gone.  Or until I stop feeling sick from too many mashed potatoes.

Going Green (and I don’t mean environmentally…or maybe I do…)

I know, it’s feast or famine here at Berry Bloggerific…I’m either posting nothing for weeks, or I’m making multiple posts in a day.

However, I made an important discovery whilst outside today...and I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up here, but…

CHECK IT OUT!!!

(and please excuse the fact that the background is in perfect focus while the actual thing that I was focusing on is blurry…I apparently have no idea how to take pictures)

I think it’s officially Spring.

Green makes my soul say “ahhhhh”.

Unfortunately, this…

…does not make my soul say “ahhhh”.  This makes my soul say “I’m gonna open up a can of whoopass beat that blasted dog…”

That tomato cage?  It houses a plant.  Or at least it used to.  My favorite rose bush suffered a similar fate – I didn’t take pictures of the carnage because it was too depressing.  I replanted the poor thing, but I’m not so sure it’s gonna make it…

I think I will blame this one…

Mind you, it could very well be this one…

but I’m pretty sure I got it right the first time.

Hey, it’s SPRING baby!  It’s officially the season of dirty feet and daily baths (for the kids, of course…obviously I bathe daily all the time…ahem)

We've been having the perfect Fall. Long and drawn out, with a healthy dose of "Indian Summer". So I've been taking advantage of the nice days to clean up the flower beds with my "helpers"

yup, this one

and this one (but not the one laying down in the background - I think he's lazy)...

I cut down the perennials, like the phlox and the hollyhocks, and broke open the seed pods to sprinkle around for next year
I cut back my irises - this one I had totally chopped up and replanted last year - I think it's thriving

cut back my daylily...

while Berry Baby ate some dirt...

one of many reasons why it's best to do gardening during his nap...

Some of my perennials were working hard at making a comeback, like this delphinium - I didn't have the heart to cut it down

The ladybugs were still busy, even after several hard frosts, all red and round and cute...

actually, not really cute, I'm just trying to be whimsical like Prairie Chick - to be perfectly honest, they're just bugs...I hate bugs...they fly at you and land in your hair or down your shirt (just for example...)

and after all that hard work and dirt eating, it was time for a "coffee break"

to wrestle with Dad...

to drink "kids pop"

and to relax in the warm Fall sunshine

I just love Fall (but not the bugs - I hate the bugs)