We have been watching this Asiatic Lily closely. We planted this last year when it was in bloom, and the growth this season has been impressive.
They say a watched pot never boils. The same idea fits flowers. We have been checking, sometimes twice a day. Yep, seems like a watched Asiatic Lily never blooms, but we’re getting close.
The past few days have been very productive in Roadtirement’s garden and landscape project list. The primary task list included preparation for, and placing of a mulch base for the flower garden. Our son did most of this work.
A progression of progress
We still have a bit of mulch left to place. It will go around the old tree stump where Sher currently has a grouping of herbs. This stump may also end up as a Fairy Village.
Unfinished mulch job and placement of herbs on the stump
Close up view of one of the glacial rocks we collected for the garden
A better look at the “getting close to finished” project
In addition, Maj planted more trees that we got from the DNR. Our total tally ended up with two Black Cherry trees and three Tulip trees. We thought we only had two Tulip saplings, when in fact we had three in the bundle.
Sher is planting petunias in some additional containers. She just got done planting some herbs. Our son, in the back left, is getting ready to hook the hose to the pressure washer. You can see a kitchen sink. Yes, that will be pressure washed and turned into some kind of planter in one side and a bird bath in the other.
We’ve been raking the tilled ground in preparation for placing some mulch. We have some pretty colored rocks that we picked up out in the country a few days ago. These are all glacial deposits that came down from Canada during the Ice Age.
This COVID-19 thing has us stuck at home, like so many of our friends and family. Putting together our flower garden is a welcome project for many reasons. It gets us out side, gives a goal to shoot for, and when it comes to the vegetable garden, hopefully we’ll be able to consume the fruits of our labor.
Indiana is starting to slowly “open back up”. Some more stores are now open at reduced capacity. Restaurants can open for inside business at 50% capacity with restrictions. It is easy to desire to get back to normal after the long stay at home. But remember, the virus is still out there!
Don’t let your guard down, be safe and stay healthy.
The flowers we got a couple of days ago have been planted in some of our containers. We have had a beautiful couple of days in a row now, great for outside yard work. Our son was a big help in this project, and we also displayed some rocks we’ve collected during our travels.
Yesterday was just beautiful out, partly sunny and warm in the low 70s. Our son drove us to the ag supply store, where they had the typical set up of flowers, trees, mulch, top soil etc. in the parking lot. We actually got out of the car, but stayed far away from anybody else.
We were hoping to plant the flowers today, but high winds and rain have put a damper on those plans so far. Maybe later today we can get out to do some yard work.
Stay safe and remember to wash those hands!
Have you ever blown the little white flyers off a dandelion?
This dandelion is in full seed mode with 150 – 200 seeds. Sometimes this stage is called a puff ball. Soon a breeze will take the seeds on a remarkable journey.
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