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My biggest project these days is the unglamourous business of raking: last year's leaves and thatch and other general debris in and around the garden. Recently I've decided it was time to provide a Support Group for the many Grapes Gone Wild along the northeastern edge of the back garden area.
Today, I brought an old television antenna into the picture, sinking it deep in the ground and braiding an assortment of grape vines up it's central pole, to hopefully form a canopy in the top framework. Don't you love finding new uses for old things? It's all part of the grand experiment. Plus, having those vines up off the ground sure allows for easier raking in that corner of the garden.
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Behind the antenna about six feet is the wooden support I cobbed together last weekend to provide an uplifting experience for one of the largest vine networks.
Here's a nice grouping that should do nicely together as the season moves along: from the upper left they are, oregano, veronica, a nice tiny yellow coreopsis (which we first met in Wellfleet years ago), calendula, purple allyssum and a bit of the great hostas that grow around the foundation of the house.
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Last fall, I was able to divide some of the many irises I've found throughout the property. Apparently, my efforts loosened up something else, as this particular division is now also boasting what looks like a different hosta species from those I've seen around the place before. I'll have to give it a little attention and seperate it further from the iris sometime this week...and see just what it's capable of.
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Taking center stage below is the silvery-leaved Coronation Gold Yarrow, which looks to be raising flower buds up toward the sky already. Behind it are a line of shasta daisies, and around front is some more purple allyssum, with a calendula seedling in the lower right corner.
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Here the sun's glare is unavoidable, but this is the golden allyssum plant currently in bloom. The tiny dark green leaves spreading in either direction around comprise a particular lush planting of thyme, which I'm quite happy to have working its way out into the grass path at that point (I love to have that scent in the air as I walk on it in the summertime...gets me hungry, tho!). There's a foxglove seedling in the lower right corner. And what little shade there is in this picture comes from what I suspect is some kind of dwarf orange tree, just outside the frame of the photo.
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Here's another angle on the first bed's little path. There's an asiatic lily, marigolds(in back), some indian paintbrush leaves (evidence of the continuing amnesty policy for wild things that bloom in my garden), some fading grape hyacinths, and white allyssum, with a large coreopsis (and the veronica et al pictured above) in the upper right corner.
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