Since the front of the house just got a bit more exciting with its new door color, I've been looking at the rest of the front yard with a critical eye and found the ugliest part of it.
You'd have a difficult time looking at the front of my house and convincing me that it's not colorful, at least during the growing season.
A little over a week ago I did my patio chair makeover test, where I covered a bleh metal chair with cedar to give it new life. At that same time I started another project that although was smaller in scope, it took a bit longer.
After a week in which we received somewhere around 6" (15cm) or more of rain here in St. Louis, I now have a gravel pile in my garden.
I've been visiting my ill mother in Chicago quite a bit since last autumn, and this past weekend I finally got to see her garden in late spring/early summer form.
I finally gave in and replaced my 7-year-old entry-level DSLR (Pentax K200D)!
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| This might be the darkest part of my yard |
I have a confession to make. Something, as a gardener, that is difficult to admit.
It's been raining every day -- including Sunday which was tour day -- with no end in sight. Besides the more worrying consequences like flooding, this means not much gardening going on right now. Which is probably a good thing since I packed a week of work into two days before the tour.
We've had these relatively inexpensive metal chairs for eight years or so now, and although they're fine, they're not perfect.
You know how some siblings don't really share a resemblance, even though they have the same parents and might have been born only a year or two apart?
I know I've done this recently, but I have to get out into the garden and do some planting before the rain moves in, so just miscellaneous views of things that caught my eye this morning.
This post has multiple purposes. First, to showcase my potted succulent collection, which I only acquired during the last 9 months. Second, to ask an important question.
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| Agave mitis var. mitis? or Agave 'Burnt Burgundy'? |
I'm quite happy with the progress I'm making on my list of projects for this summer. Thanks to Peter who convinced me that I didn't have to rebuild the entire thing but could probably just revamp it quite easily, the stream is now flowing again!
I have a relatively small garden for edibles, needing to fence it to keep out the trio of volunteer pruners that are daily visitors to my yard: deer, rabbits, and woodchucks.
Yesterday morning after a great breakfast in downtown St. Louis my wife and I drove past Citygarden. Sitting at the stoplight with the highway onramp visible directly in front of us, we decided that a stroll around a garden that neither of us had set foot in before would be a good thing.
It's almost time again for the Sustainable Backyard Tour in St. Louis, which is just a little over a week away (next Sunday, June 14th).
After the draining fawn encounter of the last couple of days (which didn't end well I'm sorry to say), I need to do something easy today, so I just walked around with the macro lens.
I've been checking the garden every morning for additional fawns like the one from the other day. Yesterday morning I found one:
Just like in the garden, many little things to look at today, starting with the front water barrel which is having some trouble getting into shape this year:
It's the time of the year when every morning's trip into your deer-visited garden might be extra-exciting...
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