#latewinter

My goal on the warm sunny Thursday was to put daffodils into the South garden, label all the plants left in that garden, and make a new map of it. I got the daffodils in and found a single Iris reticulata

The 10th of March in New England and this is the afternoon temps each day this week. After spending the morning paying bills and learning how to use a cell phone to manage the new bank account, my intern

Back in June of 2019, I posted here about having to dig all my bulbs before the construction started. Those bulbs have been in the pots in the Big garden ever since. Some of them I lost to critters because

On Monday my friend came to visit and we decided to go to the stone places to see if we could find the downspouts she’d seen last year. This gutter downspout in the South garden has been washing away the

On Friday I had help with moving things up and down stairs so I decided to move the house plants out of the cellar. They had been there for about a year I think. They had a grow light plus 2 small windows

Friday was a busy day. I had a new helper as my helper friend badly hurt his knee and will be out for a month or more. The new helper didn’t know the house or the routines, or how to cook, so I had to

April 2020 These 3 trees hadn’t been pruned much or at all over time. The magnolia and crabapple hadn’t ever been done, and the MacIntosh hadn’t been done in 3 years at least. The magnolia had leaned far

Because we have double pane windows and storm windows behind them, we seldom see frost on the windows. I was surprised to see frost on the southwest window in the office when I pulled the shade up on Tuesday