Garden Report

It certainly was nice to have the sunshine back today, and the gardens are certainly seeing a growth spurt as today's warm rays work with the rains of earlier in the week. I even bought a few plants on the way home from work this afternoon: assorted allyssums and calendulas, and some orange and yellow snapdragons. Of course, only the allyssum is in bloom so far, but they're all good looking seedlings who ought to do quite well scattered around the place. Always fun to imagine the color combinations you're engineering as you add annuals to perennial beds. I find that out this way, there's a decent chance the snaps will hang around from year to year if they're happy.

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The sunny morning brought the chance to ramble around a little, and I found myself exploring the meadow a little more closely. Willa's garden was originally sited there, before she discovered that the area sometimes floods. Some things remain, like these black-eyed susans.

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This line of Siberian irises is another remnant of that original garden. Sometime this year (after they've had their chance to bloom) I'll have to dig them, divide and replant. In fact, there's plenty of this particular species and its brethren to work with: I think a fair portion of that new bed along the apple and cherry tree border will be planted with various irises by summer's end.

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Also in a secluded corner of the top of the meadow is an old root cellar. We haven't made use of it, because to my mind, that would require being sure that some one of our wild neighbors hasn't taken up residence during its years of disuse. Still, it's kinda cool.

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