Archive for 'Garden Tour'
The Marlow Garden Tour
Posted: June 29th, 2002 by Lisa
We were up very early this morning, getting ready for the Garden Tour, and I made a list of the stuff I thought had to be done. We even finished it all in time to go see the houses on the tour before ours, which was surprising. The pond was in fine form, with water
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Posted under Frogs, Garden Tour, Mosquito Magnet, Pond, Reviews, Self, Visitors, Window Boxes, water lily, water plants.
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Final push before the tour
Posted: June 22nd, 2002 by Lisa
Can you tell we just fertilized the grass? No matter which direction Frank walks with the spreader, we see lines and missed spots. And he tries to be so careful! I’m spent much of this weekend out in the garden, trying to finalize stuff. I’ve got to be in DC next week, and the garden tour is next Saturday, so this is it, down to the wire. It’s all very pretty now, and I’m hoping it will still be okay in a week.
Posted under Garden Tour, Lawn.
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More Compost
Posted: June 12th, 2002 by Lisa
We worked on building some more compost bins today. We’ve filled up the ones we have already, between the weeds, grass clippings and the coffee grounds we get from the coffee shop. An no, I do not want to stop getting those grounds. Our soil is so poor we need all the compost we can get. We are mixing it with shredded paper. We had to get a bigger one last weekend, because we, er, burned out the other one from too much use. This new one — much nicer. Eats cardboard boxes like cereal boxes without blinking. The lupines, water lilies and irises are all in full bloom right now. Driving up to the house, the garden just looks spectacular. Why isn’t the garden tour today?!
Posted under Building, Compost, Garden Tour, Gardenporn, Iris, Lupine, Pond, Shredder, water lily.
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Iris Season
Posted: June 2nd, 2002 by Lisa
The start of the irises in the garden just seemed to happen almost overnight. They got split too hard last year, and we only had a couple of blooms, and this year, we have tons of them. As much as we complain about the quality of the soil that the landscaper installed, time and composting
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Posted under Garden Tour, Gardening, Gladiola, Iris, Lilac, Planting, Princess, Soil, Weeding.
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Garden Tour Invitation
Posted: April 30th, 2002 by Lisa
I got a call from our town garden club person, and our garden’s been selected for the garden tour this year. Yay! I’m nervous but excited. She told me that refreshments are usually provided by the host, which I hadn’t known, so now I’m wondering just what I can do. I’ll be weeding like a fool from now until June 29th, trying to get everything just perfect out there.
Posted under Garden Tour, Gardening.
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