I have great stockpiles of violets all around the yard. The edges of the walkways have always been lined with violets and thyme. I needed to get the big mass of violets out of the Big garden, so that meant

I wasn’t feeling too badly on Saturday morning and it warmed up quickly so I decided to tackle the New East garden. After a quick trip to the dump, and a stop to pat the “cutest puppy in the world” as

On Friday morning, I started to plan the Big garden. I discovered that they had revamped the website, so I spent most of the time trying to find all the buttons I normally used. I did manage to get the

On Wednesday morning I got the area in front of this garden cleaned up. Then I laid out and cleaned out this little 18” x 6’ garden. When my intern had finished helping the carpenter, she planted the

It was another real cold morning and I stayed inside until it warmed up. I got some photos of the flowering house plants. This is the 3rd of the clivias to flower. The Christmas cactus continues to bloom,

I got the laundry done early and planned to work on the sewing room. But the carpenter and I decided to do errands instead. So when I got home it had warmed up enough to go outside. I spent a couple hours

So after I had finished the house plants and some lunch on Sunday, I headed out to tackle the New South garden I was making. I made it down as far as the light colored splotch, digging out roots and stones

It was 55F outside at 8AM on Friday morning, so I got out there and got started on the gardens. This area of the 1st Fence garden had been ruined during construction. It also had a lot of erosion from