Walled-garden clean-up and prep is done - yay! There was one pot that had the most awful, prickly tendrils that had wrapped around the tree last year, so in the Fall I tore up one pair of garden gloves cutting it down to the base and bagging the cuttings for disposal. Yesterday, I tried to dig the stump out of the pot, but it had rooted all the way down -- had to dump the whole thing. Don't know what that was, but I think it would make a terrific deer fence if necessary. Anyhow, it's bagged up and ready for the semi-annual yard debris pickup -- I'll only have four bags this time -- progress!
We should have 10 days of mostly sunshine and 60+ degree temps! On a friend's advice, I picked up some "confetti" plants to put in the shorter garden pots, and three purple-flowered clematis for the tall blue pot in the Mary garden area. They'll all get planted tomorrow!
The front lawn is in really good shape this year (a two-year process to get it up to par...), so mowing is now on a weekly schedule.
The previous owner left me an auto-sprinkler system :love_heart:, and I'm going to re-program it for 2-days/week, 20-minute intervals. Will see if I can outsmart the machine and get it re-done.
After all the planting is done, there's one more project I've wanted to do for a while -- pull out and relocate/rearrange some of the paving blocks. Don't think I'll have to buy more than a dozen new ones to finish the design. Should be interesting, and definitely appeals to a nerdy brain to get those in order.
There was some settling so it's not really a level area, but I can live with that...
Another fun adventure -- finding a chaise lounge that is not zero-gravity! Just a reasonably light-weight one that folds out flat and that folds up when I'm not using it. The old-school style is not easy to find!
Will take more photos when the plants are in, thanks for reading!