May 27, 2009

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  Sometimes I am just thankful for my friends.  In the past week I have seen or emailed my friends quite a bit.  It is such a nice difference from when I was so busy and overwhelmed in school.  I don't have many friends (meaning I have a few near and dear friends vs. a ton of friends) so it is nice that they all weathered my being too busy to visit or call for two years....Okay, okay....I did see them a few times, but it was precious few and far between. 

  Anyway, between last week and now I have seen most of my friends and the friend I haven't seen, I emailed.  It has been delicious!

  Now...on to the garden.....

  I have gotten the flower bed pretty much done.  I needed one more Asiatic lily to balance out my bed and when at Lowes buying said lily (the very last one!), I discovered they were having all perennials in quart buckets on sale for $2.  Needless to say, I bit!  I got two balloon flowers, two dianthus and some petunias (no...not perennials!).  Nature Boy picked two salvia.  I've got all but the salvia tucked town in my flower garden (the salvia is going to go up by the house).  I guess now my garden is a perennial bed!  I also filled in my row of petunias.

  

  Here's a map of my garden.  The arrows point to bulbs that haven't come up yet (gladioli and freesia) and bulbs that aren't planted yet (tulips) because they are fall bulbs.  The x spots mark where I am putting that kind of mounding perennial geranium.  Speedy has some that she is going to give me (that were started from a piece of plant from my parents' house).

  

  Right now, the bed is pretty sparse looking, however by the end of summer I am hoping it fills in nicely and after a year or so, I think it will be quite lush.

  The vegetable garden is coming along too.  I keep finding potatoes in the flower bed (leftover from potatoes we planted 3 years ago! Must be they kept reseeding).  I have found enough that I made a patch in the garden and am dropping them in there.  These are the fun purple potatoes....I hope they grow!

  Some of my tomatoes did get frosted, even under the sheets.  It didn't kill the whole plants, but they definitely will lose some leaves.

  What else?  We are due for days of rain....Good for my peas and bulbs, but disappointing as I've been enjoying the sunny days.  I started studying for my exam yesterday.  I started really applying myself to healthy eating and exercise yesterday too.  The robins haven't hatched yet.

  K...Guess that's all the news for now!

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