Apr. 26th, 2016 10:02 am
Coming up again
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muckefuckIn tough times, I take refuge in my garden. One of the roughest bits of the last month was that I had a bunch of indifferent strangers tramping around in it. It got to the point where I could't bear to look out the windows. I remember one morning waiting for Mom to get ready so we could head to the hospital and pacing up and down the hallway because it was the only part of the house where I couldn't see outside.
Now the tuckpointers are supposedly finished, but we haven't had the final walkthrough yet so I'm still waiting to exhale completely. After I bitched to the association president, she asked me to inventory the damages, which I did over the weekend. It was not as bad as I feared. I did lose the double-flowering kerria it took me so much trouble to rustle up, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monshu was never that fond of it, so I'm looking at this as an opportunity to replace it with something he'll really enjoy.
The heuchera I thought I'd killed by moving it out of harm's way in a fit of pique is coming back as is, miraculously, the oak fern I'd written off after last year's late drought. Even more miraculously, the mayapple has returned as well. It looked so sad last fall, I thought it a goner for sure. It seems just about the only thing I lost from last year's planting frenzy was the Solomon's seal, perhaps some of the lily-of-the-valley as well. (One or the other is coming up near my newest hügelbeet, but it's too soon to tell which.)
I had some time over the weekend to get dirty again and planted another dogwood to replace the one that got taken out. As long as I was digging on the western end of the Hellstrip, I also relocated the Persicaria to a sunnier spot, shifted a dogwood into its place, and surrounded it with wood poppies from the southern edge of the lawn. I thought that would take me an hour; it took me two and left me wiped out for the remainder of the day.
Now the tuckpointers are supposedly finished, but we haven't had the final walkthrough yet so I'm still waiting to exhale completely. After I bitched to the association president, she asked me to inventory the damages, which I did over the weekend. It was not as bad as I feared. I did lose the double-flowering kerria it took me so much trouble to rustle up, but
monshu was never that fond of it, so I'm looking at this as an opportunity to replace it with something he'll really enjoy.The heuchera I thought I'd killed by moving it out of harm's way in a fit of pique is coming back as is, miraculously, the oak fern I'd written off after last year's late drought. Even more miraculously, the mayapple has returned as well. It looked so sad last fall, I thought it a goner for sure. It seems just about the only thing I lost from last year's planting frenzy was the Solomon's seal, perhaps some of the lily-of-the-valley as well. (One or the other is coming up near my newest hügelbeet, but it's too soon to tell which.)
I had some time over the weekend to get dirty again and planted another dogwood to replace the one that got taken out. As long as I was digging on the western end of the Hellstrip, I also relocated the Persicaria to a sunnier spot, shifted a dogwood into its place, and surrounded it with wood poppies from the southern edge of the lawn. I thought that would take me an hour; it took me two and left me wiped out for the remainder of the day.