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Today was productive- started out by potting a new fern for the third floor:
Put the first coat of sealer on our third floor sills:
Rearranged our basement to incorporate new shelving (and found our dust buster we’d given up for lost) and only one more set of shelves to assemble down there.
Also, we got a not-so-secret project started, so stay tuned.
What a change of pace from all this rain. Love the sky this evening:
Oh, and ^project candlestick^ above makes an appearance!
It’s July, it’s hot, there’s been no rain, our plants are thirsty, and it takes 15-20+ min to water the garden every day. So we decided to get 2 sprinkler heads ch-ch-ch- ing in our garden that we can hook up to our existing hose:
We snaked the connecting hose between all the established plants, with a convenient quick-release hook-up to our hose:
Now we can hook it up for 15 min every morning and have happy plants!
So with the PHS judging imminent it was time to get the dead azalea out of the garden:
Bonus, it obscures the ridiculous green spray paint on the tree (Grr):
Wild child fern:
I kinda love it!
The 2011 PHS City Gardens Contest is here! This year our block / the entire 4,800 sf garden is vying against others for “Greenest Block In Town”. Scoring criteria includes maintenance, horticultural practice, imaginative ideas, suitability of plants, variety, color, use of space and community participation!
Just a reminder that the judges are stopping by this Sunday morning to view the garden. The garden looks so nice so hopefully we’ll do well this year! :)
Go Greenest Block Go!
Staggering heights:
Fun colors:
Great weather, lovely skies, lots of blooms:
These guys look like mini 4th of July fireworks:
The deck plants are filling in and doing well; the purple wave petunias are especially loving it up here!
How great is that bright green hosta in the middle?
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