more garden pictures

Pansy

Geranium

Verbena 'Quartz mango'

Gimli has conquered the clay soil.

jasminum stephanense

another geranium

Marguerite daisy 'twinkle' lavender

Osteospermum nuanza purple/copper. Sooooo pretty!



Check out the size of my hollyhocks. They're almost to the top of the 6' fence. I have 3 this size.

Buchanan's fucshia sage. Fuzzy wuzzy :)

Chocolate cosmos. This smells divine!

French marigold

Heuchera 'Dolce peach melba'. Such a gorgeous plant. The camera doesn't do it justice.

The beginning of the plantypoos

We went to Sierra rock and nursery yesterday and purchased the first plants to go into our yard. 72 plants and a pot hardly made a dent in the yard. I really liked the selection there and they had a bunch of plants I hadn't seen at the other local nurseries. They carried unique varieties in smaller sizes so they came out to be cheaper than buying them later in the season in bigger, more expensive containers.

Since it's raining this morning I thought I'd post what we did yesterday. Hopefully it dies down as we have much to do!

Yesterday I planted various quantities of: jasminum x-stephanense, strawberry 'quinault', dusty miller 'silver dust', verbena 'quartz mango', Buchanan's fuschia sage, marguerite daisy 'twinkle' lavender, sagina scotch moss, hernieria 'green carpet', wooly thyme, red rubin purple basil, genovese basil, tiburon poblano pepper, nasturtium 'whirlybird mix', marigold 'durango red', casper eggplant, brandywine tomatos, purple beauty sweet pepper, christmas grapes heirloom tomato and 2 mystery plants that I grew from seed and forgot to label.

A trench Mike painstakingly spent hours digging for the veggie plants. He was upset when I put flowers in half. hehe Oh look, a glimpse of the cutest doggy ever! Gimli helped Mike dig the trench by jumping in and picking out mouthfuls of clay.

Verbena 'Quartz Mango' I love this color, it's so soft and pretty.

Bacopa for the hanging baskets up front.

Buchanan's Fuchsia sage. I had to get this plant! I love the dark maroon stems and the fuzzy little flower petals.

A little patch I started on yesterday. I really like the chartreuse color of the scotch moss.

Jasminum x-stephanense This is such a pretty jasmine. It really doesn't picture well. I've not seen this at other nurserys. My favourite plant that we purchased yesterday.

My bootiful new strawberry pot. Last time I planted strawberries in the ground they sent roots up all over the place. I thought the pot would help to control their invasive tendencies. The strawberries are the 'Quinault' variety.

Yard update

The left side of the yard. The plum tree and the crape myrtle are planted. The path for the stepping stones are temporily placed to see if it's pleasing. Good soil still has to be mounded into the clay and mixed in to create a berm around the crape myrtle.

The right side with 5 cypress trees along the back and a Geijera in the corner. Look at my lovely blue bucket. It's sparkly and glittery. I love buckets! I finished planting the ground cover and added in some extra in case any accidently came out. Accidents happen when Gimli runs over the area at 50mph.

Ugly pots on the back and an old fence that's about to fall down :) Look at the crooked trees.

A view of the left side from the right side of the yard. WOW! Oh look up against the bricks it's my hula hoe! It's handy in many situations and my favourite tool :) I even have a hula hoe junior. I like hoes. hmm from this angle the stones look like a question mark. Not good. The yard still needs plants and lots of them!

Gimli helping us break up the clay soil. He's such a good helper.

Gimli with clay soil stuck on his nose.

Gimli smiling for th camera. SOOOOO ADORABLE!! On the ground there is hula hoe junior.

I've never had dry hands or arms before but working in the clay soil seems to be drying my skin out. It seems the clay is sucking all the moisture out of my poor wittle hands. I have little skin flakes all over my hands and arms now. Unsightly and so uncomfortable. Anyways. . .


The end. (_!_)

A few fleurs

Bleeding hearts. Such an adorable plant.

Columbines came back on their own and multiplied. Good plant.

Felicias

Seedlings from a week ago and then some

All but the ones in the individual orange and black (good colors!) pots were planted up about a week ago. This is about half of the seedlings that I have. Scary eh? :) Sorry for the latency in posting the pictures James, but as you can see i've been really busy :) I can almost open up a store.

Phase 1 and 2

The yard as it used to be
when we moved in. (2005)

The yard now. (2007)

Did we uglify it or what? Hmm I'm starting to wonder if it
will actually ever look nice. It's so much work and after a
few laborious hours it never looks as if we've accomplished
anything. If only this was an April fools joke. We actually
did that on purpose.