Thanks - sounds like you’ll be ready for winter! My flower garden is over run with weeds. Going to get out this weekend and remove them all. Also planted two rose bushes that I bought from Heirloom Roses - they are having a big sale and I bought two more for delivery for next spring. Transplanted a big hydrangea last evening. I don’t know if it will make it — hope to see if it will take root in the next week or so. Need to get some more top soil and compost.
I have really enjoyed learning new things this year about flowers, soil, bugs and weeds. It’s certainly challenging. Lately when I drive by a house with a nice cottage garden, I’m feeling tempted to knock on the person’s door and asking questions about their garden. Would that be too creepy? I haven’t succumbed to the desire yet, but it crosses my mind now and again.
Weather here is glorious. I hear we might have rain next week. Bummer! Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Rain will make your garden grow. I don’t know about knocking on doors of strangers. Back when I was a kid, I wouldn’t have thought anything about it, but it’s a different world now.
I had some nice rose bushes, but I think the hard winter hurt them, and they have been sickly. Hubby decided that a wild petunia that came up in the bed was really pretty.
I just found out he has been harvesting the seeds, and immediately replanting them. Now the roses are totally surrounded by these petunias that are about 18” tall and have kinda tiny pretty flowers.
Not at all what I would want right in front of the house, just like his project to move all the Iris and Tall lilies from my backyard patio to line the driveway with. Too messy looking from the road.
He put blueberry bushes in the backyard patio garden, which is not so bad, but then He decided to let some wild passion flowers grow, and try to cultivate more of them. They are about 4 or 5 feet tall. Have really different flowers, but not so pretty when not in bloom.
Oh well, whatever makes him happy.LOL