Monday, April 11, 2011

Garden cleanup

Wow....can't believe that I have been cleaning up my flowerbeds....the weather has been great the past couple of days...in between rain and wind....it is so nice to dig in the dirt....
In the greeenhouse, I transplanted my large aloe plant and it is growing some kind of spiky flower that hasn't bloomed yet....we'll see....
The dahliahs had sprouts growing, so they are potted up...happy, happy...

Saturday, April 09, 2011

Happy April Now

So far, April has had a bit of everything, rain, snow, dampness, cold but in the past couple of days, the weather has been a bit warmer....I cleaned a little of my front flower bed...used the hoe and pulled out weeds and dead flowers.... I want to buy some pansies (appearing in the weekly flyers) to put out front...they are always so cheery. A small part of the front lawn has been raked, pinecones picked up and now I am trying to tidy my greenhouse....ongoing job, it seems.
On Thursday, hubby and I took the large Jade plant outdoors to wash it off as there is rotten mealybug on some of it....working at cleaning it off the plant with soapy water.
The Ajuga/Bugleweed plant that I used for a trailer in one of my last year planters is growing like mad so I separated it into 3 plants.....Doug Green says to beware of any plant or flower that has the word "weed" in its name....whoooooaaa