Pinging the List.
Just reporting that the grapefruit bush I started from a seed is now four years old and just bushed up quite nice. I have another flower on it and the scent/fragrance of that one flower is heavenly.
My ‘small’ garden is doing well. Tomato and pepper plants doing well. I planted WAY too much Kale, but I’m going to learn to make those Kale Chips which are supposedly so good. Lots of lettuce and radishes this season. The pol beans (Fortex) are climbing toward the sky. Life Is Good!
Working on the landscaping across the front of the house. There’s a LOVELY 3’ span of Field Stone that I don’t want to completely cover up, so I added additional purple Sedum there, to go with the established green (Autumn Joy) and a really neat grass named, ‘Blue Paradise’ which is green and burgundy and will be 3-4’ tall and ‘airy’ so the field stone will still show.
Further down the way, where the gawd-awful Barberry were pulled out, I am adding three High Bush Cranberry Viburnum (4-5’ tall) interspersed with Karl Foerster grass, which stays upright, columnar and has a BEAUTIFUL golden seed head in the fall.
Up next is the ‘garden’ you can see out the kitchen window while you’re doing dishes and slaving away. That area needs to be NUKED with Round-Up to kill all the overgrown grass, but afterwards it’s going to be all evergreens, perennial grasses and roses.
I’m finding I’m liking landscaping just as much as veggie gardening. Now...how to turn this into a ‘job’ in my ‘retirement...’
:)