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Update on the garden:
I think my peas are starting to come up! :-)
I have two pink tulips, and my two little muscari plants are flowering like gang-busters. My mint is getting big, and my chamomile is litterally a *shrub* that is about to flower! :-)
Sadly, my hybrid tea-rose has been eaten. <*grumble*> I need to sheet-mulch that area, as well. That grass is high, and going to seed. (Urg...)
In other gardening news: I have just begun planting my shade garden! :-)
I have sheet-mulched a section of my backyard (to starve out the grass. I'm not a fan of grass). This involved wall-papering the ground with carboard and old news papers. (I had *just* enough to do it, but no more -- Woohoo!). And then covering the paper and cardboard with compost, fully-rotted manure, and peat moss.
Today I add 70L of topsoil, and hope. ;-)
I have put up a garden arch ($17.00 @ Michaels, and a bit ricketty, but it'll do for climbing vines). I will be growing Moon Flower (a type of morning-glory that is an evening bloomer with big, white flowers) on the left side (where a little bit of sun actually hits) and Everlasting Pea (which is a deep-shade perenial like Sweet Peas) up the other.
Underneath the arch I've planted a little green hosta (with a lunar name -- I think it's a really common hosta), a white bleeding heart, and a little purplish periwinkle. I have some shade-loving wild-flower mix to add, and I think I have one or two others plants that I could do, but mostly I need shady stuff. :-)
I'd like to add lily of the valley, forget-me-nots, ostrich ferns, and lots of blue hostas.
However, any other plant suggestions would be good. Perenials that are hardy to zone three are prefered.
Please, send your ideas my way! :-)
I have to go and get ready for work now. :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
I think my peas are starting to come up! :-)
I have two pink tulips, and my two little muscari plants are flowering like gang-busters. My mint is getting big, and my chamomile is litterally a *shrub* that is about to flower! :-)
Sadly, my hybrid tea-rose has been eaten. <*grumble*> I need to sheet-mulch that area, as well. That grass is high, and going to seed. (Urg...)
In other gardening news: I have just begun planting my shade garden! :-)
I have sheet-mulched a section of my backyard (to starve out the grass. I'm not a fan of grass). This involved wall-papering the ground with carboard and old news papers. (I had *just* enough to do it, but no more -- Woohoo!). And then covering the paper and cardboard with compost, fully-rotted manure, and peat moss.
Today I add 70L of topsoil, and hope. ;-)
I have put up a garden arch ($17.00 @ Michaels, and a bit ricketty, but it'll do for climbing vines). I will be growing Moon Flower (a type of morning-glory that is an evening bloomer with big, white flowers) on the left side (where a little bit of sun actually hits) and Everlasting Pea (which is a deep-shade perenial like Sweet Peas) up the other.
Underneath the arch I've planted a little green hosta (with a lunar name -- I think it's a really common hosta), a white bleeding heart, and a little purplish periwinkle. I have some shade-loving wild-flower mix to add, and I think I have one or two others plants that I could do, but mostly I need shady stuff. :-)
I'd like to add lily of the valley, forget-me-nots, ostrich ferns, and lots of blue hostas.
However, any other plant suggestions would be good. Perenials that are hardy to zone three are prefered.
Please, send your ideas my way! :-)
I have to go and get ready for work now. :-)
- Nam'ara,
- Amazon. :-)
