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Nov. 4th, 2015 06:38 am
Grub grub grubbing
We're smack in the middle of an All Saints summer here and I never want it to end. But given that it's already past the date of the average first snow in Chicago, I'm just trying to enjoy it for the miracle it is. Just today ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monshu brought in the azaleas from outside. They've been sporadically trying to bloom over the last couple months. Maybe the warmth of indoors will convince them to give it another go.
Meanwhile, I'm still struggling to get everything in the ground soon enough for them to get established before the ground freezes. I made another big push on Sunday but still have a spiderwort, a fern, and a trip of flowers whose names I forget from Fig to plant. At least all the Rudbeckia, Echinacea, and Aquilegia is taken care of. Well, except for the seeds I new to strew.
That was the weekend's major project: digging up the parkway corner one last time and prepping it for spring. The guy at the hardware store made me a deal on tube sand because none of the tubes were intact, so if I wasn't willing to take them, they'd just "go to waste". And it was a good thing, too: one tube's worth would not have sufficed. Still, it makes a world of difference. It was so much easier scooping everything up again to work in more sand than it was digging it all out the first time.
After everythings in the ground, the last order of business will be ordering tree seedlings for spring now that I know how the process works. I still plan to get dogwoods and witch hazel, but I wonder if I shouldn't review the list one last time to see if there's anything else that would improve the understory. Meanwhile, the Old Man has found a shrub he likes in a neighbour's yard, but we haven't managed to ID it yet.
monshu brought in the azaleas from outside. They've been sporadically trying to bloom over the last couple months. Maybe the warmth of indoors will convince them to give it another go.Meanwhile, I'm still struggling to get everything in the ground soon enough for them to get established before the ground freezes. I made another big push on Sunday but still have a spiderwort, a fern, and a trip of flowers whose names I forget from Fig to plant. At least all the Rudbeckia, Echinacea, and Aquilegia is taken care of. Well, except for the seeds I new to strew.
That was the weekend's major project: digging up the parkway corner one last time and prepping it for spring. The guy at the hardware store made me a deal on tube sand because none of the tubes were intact, so if I wasn't willing to take them, they'd just "go to waste". And it was a good thing, too: one tube's worth would not have sufficed. Still, it makes a world of difference. It was so much easier scooping everything up again to work in more sand than it was digging it all out the first time.
After everythings in the ground, the last order of business will be ordering tree seedlings for spring now that I know how the process works. I still plan to get dogwoods and witch hazel, but I wonder if I shouldn't review the list one last time to see if there's anything else that would improve the understory. Meanwhile, the Old Man has found a shrub he likes in a neighbour's yard, but we haven't managed to ID it yet.