Gardens 2026

[Nancy]

May Day / as a kid we took baskets of flowers and left em on door knobs rang the door bell or knocked ran and hid!
That was fun.

Today I've been out in the yard getting things accomplished that I did not get to earlier in the week.
Moved cans and wagons of weeds to the carport area. Some got emptied.
Raked up a couple of small piles of onion bulbs I'd dug out and got them picked up and in a can.
Mowed the front & the back yard.
---rest break --- between tasks
weeded some tall grasses in the iris beds as I watered in back.
Got two pieces of metal fence moved to a better spot.
10K steps [Without a walk today.]

[Harriet]

That does make sense about being good for our brains, Nancy. There are so many things we are thinking about, even when we are just planting in a pot. How moist is this soil, how fluffy, how high will you build it up to the edge when you consider the plants will be going in, too? So many thoughts that are headed toward something as "small" as a few little plants growing on in a pot. So many more decisions when we look around a larger yard or garden or even balcony we'd like to enjoy.

Enjoying happy successes.
Lantana is wildly healthy. I'm surprised the color is changing to a sort of gold (maybe the "pineapple" name should have warned me) rather than the lighter yellow the label and the first blooms appeared. But I guess that's okay.

The Bubblegum petunia, as in prior years, is determined to be the standout with the Bordeaux right behind. The Bordeaux is a "new and improved", and maybe I can see some improvement, yes. But for the petunias, the Yellow Finch is just not doing well. I wonder why - from some of the same stock or "breeding" as others. I see no worm damage. Just seems to give up. I guess it could be worms and they are concentrating on the young buds. Hmmm... .. Usually you see little holes on blooms, though.

Trying one "SunPatiens" this year, at a spot where some height would be nice. That is a cross between impatiens and New Guinea Impatiens, which have different foliage, bigger blooms. It could take sun, but I'll be asking it to stick with shade. It's a large one, and in the past, these have been expensive, but I found this for $6.

DgsW is continuing to mow here. That's a win-win as he is hoping to earn money.

Half my largest pot/planter is mine, half given over to a wren who now has 5 eggs. Hopefully, she'll manage. If I am lucky enough to see when they all fly away, I'll break up the nest, I think, and keep her from doing this again. I read about her species, and she can definitely do this twice in the same year.

[Harriet]

Oh, I like that tradition with the flower baskets!

[Kittykatt]

Yesterday I trimmed back the periwinkle growing along the fence. I may need to do more, if what's left decides to flop over onto the patio, rather than nicely climb up the fence, but we'll see. I've brought up some geraniums from their very sheltered spot where they've been acclimatising, and put their pots along the edge of the patio.

Sometime in the near future, I need to trim back the periwinkle in the front garden. I also need to decide the future of another rose - it's not growing at all well this year.

[Nancy]

I have another line of bed de-onioned.
Got a vid. of the process going up at 3 today.
Glad for this progress but I still have to pick up the piles of what I've ripped out.

I am waiting for the shade to get in the area to pick up anc do some clean up on
after today's work. / that did not work no shade when I thought ... it was later...
got some done anyway.

[Nancy]

Garden Time / today was 6-8:00 a.m.
before the bees were out weed onions out by roses on East side of yard
Mission Accomplished!

Got cans emptied 1st to have some where to put em as I went.
Now I need to move those to the trailer.
Taking a rest break now.