Sep. 5th, 2012 11:00 am
September showers
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muckefuckI thought I would be clever this morning and leave ahead of the rain. As it happens, I would've been better off waiting. Fortunately I had a pair of slacks in my knapsack that I was able to change into once I made it to work. Unfortunately, the first line of thunderstorms pushed through around half-past eleven or so, which kept me awake and now I'm a groggy boy.
I'm happy, though, because this is just what the garden needed. The catnip seems not to have made it (though it's a bit early to tell exactly what is sprouting in that pot), but the mesclun is up and growing like weeds. So is the buckwheat. But the standout success of this past year is the autumn-blooming clematis, which is finally in its glory.
Can you believe that I trimmed it back not once this year but twice? And when I say "trimmed", I mean I took it back to the metal trellis that you can't even see any more underneath the profusion of vines. Despite the dry summer, I don't think I ended up watering it more than a handful of times.
On the near side, it was starting to climb the smoketree until our neighbour across the fence hacked it back, and it was already at least a month ago that it reached the roof of the garage on the far side. I wonder if another year unmolested is all it would need to cover it on two sides.
The only real disappointment is that there still isn't much scent. Other plants like this you can smell from several paces, but you still have to get right up to ours before you get any perfume.
I'm happy, though, because this is just what the garden needed. The catnip seems not to have made it (though it's a bit early to tell exactly what is sprouting in that pot), but the mesclun is up and growing like weeds. So is the buckwheat. But the standout success of this past year is the autumn-blooming clematis, which is finally in its glory.
Can you believe that I trimmed it back not once this year but twice? And when I say "trimmed", I mean I took it back to the metal trellis that you can't even see any more underneath the profusion of vines. Despite the dry summer, I don't think I ended up watering it more than a handful of times.
On the near side, it was starting to climb the smoketree until our neighbour across the fence hacked it back, and it was already at least a month ago that it reached the roof of the garage on the far side. I wonder if another year unmolested is all it would need to cover it on two sides.
The only real disappointment is that there still isn't much scent. Other plants like this you can smell from several paces, but you still have to get right up to ours before you get any perfume.
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