Archive for 'gazebo'
Posted: August 31st, 2003 by
Lisa
We spent all of today working on getting that downed tree out of the driveway, and it hasn’t been a good day for equipment, making it all more difficult. Frank’s Stihl chainsaw was broken yesterday by having the tree fall on it, and he bought a spare at Home Depot last night, but he really
Read more »
Posted under Chainsaw, Chipper, Design Ideas, Firewood, Japanese beetles, Lawn tractor, Lily beetles, Tractor, Truck, Window Boxes, Wine, gazebo.
Comments: none
Posted: July 15th, 2003 by
Lisa
I tried to introduce the cats to the catnip plant that I planted earlier this year. I caught Yoda chewing on my clematis earlier in the evening, and I hate to scold him because he’s such a scaredy cat and I don’t want to scare him, but c’mon. Not on my clematis! None of them
Read more »
Posted under Design Ideas, Gardening, Marmalade, Pathways, Planting, Pruning, Red-twig Dogwood, Yoda, gazebo.
Comments: none
Posted: June 21st, 2003 by
Lisa
The weather’s been nice enough in the evenings lately that we are spending time sitting out in the gazebo with a glass of wine. One of the things I noticed last night was that I haven’t touched my forgotten bed, the one directly behind the gazebo. It can stay forgotten for much of the year
Read more »
Posted under Burdock, Coffee Grounds, Deadheading, False Indigo, Gardening, Gladiola, Irrigation, Lasagna Layering, Planting, Pruning, Raised Beds, Stinging Nettles, Weeding, dahlia, gazebo.
Comments: none
Posted: June 16th, 2003 by
Lisa
It’s so pretty today that we really can’t stay inside for long. We went outside for a bit of fiddling at lunch today, and again right after work as well. The sun is out, the air is warm, and it’s like Summer magically happened overnight. The butterflies are out in full force, too. All sorts
Read more »
Posted under Butterflies, Clematis, Columbine, Deadheading, Fish, Lasagna Layering, Lupine, Potatoes, Weeding, gazebo.
Comments: none
Posted: April 29th, 2003 by
Lisa
One of the species tulips is opened up today. It’s yellow and white, and so cute! These are the ones, unfortunately, that the mice at most of, though, so there aren’t that many plants. I think they are adorable, though. Maybe they’ll spread. It really barely looks like a tulip to me. The hyacinths are
Read more »
Posted under Clematis, Farm Life, Structures, astilbe, bridge, dahlia, deck, gazebo, hosta, oxalis, peony, pergola.
Comments: none
Posted: April 15th, 2003 by
Lisa
We did a walk about after work today, just to see what’s coming up. There are definite daffs and species tulips all over the place at this point. The cats all had a great time following us around, though mostly they enjoyed playing around with me on the front porch deck, dashing around the sawmill
Read more »
Posted under Ash, Compost, Dogs, Marmalade, Princess, Red-twig Dogwood, Sawmill, Viola, Yoda, daffodils, gazebo, pergola, tulips.
Comments: none
Posted: August 31st, 2002 by
Lisa
I spent last week in DC on business, and saw a flower that I’d never seen before during a walk through on one of the public gardens. It turns out it’s a passion fruit vine. From reading up on it, I find it hard to believe that DC is warm enough for it, but maybe
Read more »
Posted under Reviews, Self, Soil, Weeding, Window Boxes, gazebo.
Comments: none
Posted: August 21st, 2002 by
Lisa
We are spending almost every evening out in the gazebo at this point. When the sun starts to go down, it just calls our name. The screened in part was to keep away the bugs, but the mosquito magnet has been working so well that we can sit out there with the door propped open
Read more »
Posted under Chrysler Imperial, Compost, Farm Life, Mosquito Magnet, Mosquitos, Reviews, Roses, Window Boxes, Worms, gazebo.
Comments: none
Posted: July 7th, 2002 by
Lisa
Since the stupid shredder still wouldn’t start, we puttered in the yard for most of the day. The window boxes are looking just about perfect right now, though I need to get out there and deadhead the whole lot of them again. I’ve been concentrating on keeping up with the weeding and dead-heading in the
Read more »
Posted under Algae, Day, Ditch, Fish, Frogs, Window Boxes, Wine, alium, gazebo.
Comments: none
Posted: June 8th, 2002 by
Lisa
We were outside every possible minute today, trying to get things ready for the garden tour. I’m slowly feeling like I’m getting it under control, though. There are still lots of iris in bloom, with the Siberian ones just coming out. There are a bunch of these in the shallow parts of the pond’s waterfall,
Read more »
Posted under Chives, Clematis, Grapes, Grass Clippings, Honeysuckle, Lawn, Princess, Siberian, Soil, Weeding, Wild birds, gazebo, pergola.
Comments: none