Yesterday I dug up, divided, and moved a metric ton of Ressurection Lilies, Irises, and Narcissus (I think). What I think is Narcissus is not something that I planted - it just sprung up in the Iris bed one spring, and slowly pushed the Irises to the back of the bed. When I dug them up, there had to be at least thirty thousand bulbs. I just kept ( Read more... )

Last year I kind of got a bit lax with the upkeep in my back garden, and things got a little out of hand. This year I'm determined to get it back into fighting shape. I've had Lemon Balm back there for years, worked at keeping it tamed, but failed last year. It ended up choking out almost all of the other plants ( Read more... )

My Christmas Cactus is confused. It has a ton of blooms on it and it's only November. Of course, the confusion is nothing new. It usually blooms in October, and then again around Easter it gets one bloom (the Easter Miracle we've taken to calling it, lol). So it's blooming a little late this year, lol. None of the buds have started to open yet, so ( Read more... )

So, we've (mom & I) been planning this gardening party for over a month now. We decided that since our perrenials are so very overgrown and in desperate need of dividing, and that there are so many gardeners at Kohls, that we would have a party where people could come over and dig up plants from our yard to take home and bring plants from their ( Read more... )

I spent all morning and most of the afternoon planting 98 Salvias (Victoria Blue) in the tulip bed, and I'm going to need at least one more flat still. It looks okay now, but only because all the tulip leaves haven't died back yet. Once they do there are going to be big gaps in the bed. I think I'll pick up another flat after work this upcoming ( Read more... )

Our internet has been kind of dodgy of late, to the point where I wouldn't even try to connect. Dad finally called on it yesterday, and SBC came out today and fixed it. Yay, Internet! I'm connected to the rest of the world again ( Read more... )

These were taken this morning.

( Tulips! )

The first tulip opened! Squee!!!!

( The first tulip! )

( TULIPS! )

Planted ( Read more... )