My face is scarlet with shame that I have not written a garden post for almost seven (!!) months, and there really are no excuses that wouldn’t sound horribly lame (despite being true.) I am terribly behind on both of my sites, to be honest. So, I will sit in a hypothetical corner and promise…
Having taken a look at how the front yard fared in 2021 as far as TGGR, let’s check out the back. The Four Seasons Bed This was the Four Seasons Bed at the end of September last year. I think that I got all those Japanese anemones out (fingers crossed.) The caged plants are the…
It has been such a busy year for The Great Garden Renovation (TGGR) that I’m dividing my end-of season status report into separate posts for the front and back garden areas. In late July there came a glimmer of hope that the long-awaited (since March 2019) replacement of the Driveway and the Courtyard would commence…
Now that everyone has seen the wages of my slothfulness in the backyard portion of the garden, it’s time to see what the world at large has been subjected to (i.e., the front)! There are fewer planting areas here than in the back, because the house front is set back 65 feet from the curb,…
You may have noticed that I haven’t added many garden posts recently; since May, in fact, and the last ‘overview’ of things here dates from the tail end of last year. I had planned to post a spring update of TGGR (The Great Garden Renovation) but several things conspired to keep me from doing any…
This year’s progress in The Great Garden Renovation (a/k/a/ TGGR) can be summed up in only two words: “not much.” You’d think that the pandemic-enforced stay-at-homeness would have resulted in a windfall of weeding work, a torrent of tidiness, and an overall “Let’s get this done” attitude. Somehow, that’s not what happened. Part of the…
Have you ever made such a stunningly stupid, colossally clueless and yet breathtakingly basic planting-plan error that the only thing you can do is keep repeating to yourself “How in the world could I have ever failed to…????!?!?!?” I’m not talking about deciding to take a gamble on something that the left side of your…
Sooner or later, most gardeners who have more than a couple of planting areas will reach a point where referring to a plant’s location simply as “front yard”, “back yard” or “side yard” just won’t do anymore. This is where the Naming of Beds – which may not be quite as elaborate as T.S. Eliot…
The Chatsworth Lady 