That was yesterday’s effort.
I have not been particularly successful with roses. This doesn’t mean I don’t keep trying. There’s a pink ‘Nachidoches’ noisette and a yellow ‘Radsunny’ by the fence on the the south side of the house. I have periodically pulled the grass and mulched around them. But, I haven’t maintained that and keep having to do it again.
SO. I started pulling grass out a few days ago and got about halfway in between them before giving my hands a rest. Tuesday, Chuck wanted to clear the cypress vines off the front stoop and I collected a handful of seeds to put between those roses. (That may have been a bad idea. They do tend to swallow whatever they’re near.) Yesterday, I finish pulling the grass around and between them, outlined that spot with some edgers I had lying around and mulched fairly heavily. I’m considering another load of mulch.
I’d moved the trash containers and the old gate I use to try to hide them over to that side a few days ago. And the pot has a flowering purslane in it. I think it comes up randomly as birds scatter the seeds. Which is why it’s in that ugly pot. I’d lifted it from the ground and stuck it in what was handy. If it comes back in that pot next year, it will get a nicer pot.
I’m hoping to show you something really beautiful there next summer.
Giving myself credit for a good day’s work, I shifted the stepping stone I’d stashed under the stoop to the spot where we’ve set up the Solo Stove so I could use the edgers Chuck had appropriated for that and I moved the tall marble garden table farther along the patio, putting it more in the sun. I keep swapping out the carnivores and the bonsai from there to one of the other tables on the patio and I think that’s better placement for whatever plants I have on it.
I would kind of like to shift the bench down closer to it. But, that thing is heavy and we said that it never moving again when we set it there.
Those large pots hold (L to R, front to back?) basil, thyme and sage. The big bush is the Brown Turkey fig.
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