various updates
Jun. 6th, 2011 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinWe've been very busy lately, but just with house and maintenance-type things, not much interesting.
D came over yesterday, to look at a couple of my iris and drop off a couple plants before she left town again. She's headed to her mom's again today, to look after her as long as she's needed. Her mom's docs have gotten her on some meds that let her eat, finally, and she's put on a little weight, but she's still terribly weak, and can't take care of herself. And she's got five more rounds of chemo.
On the lighter side, D identified three of my mystery iris, and said she recognized another but couldn't remember the name. The odd-colored one in the front yard is Lousiana iris "Missouri Cowboy", the large-flowered copper-colored one is Lousiana iris "Red Dazzler", and the very upright, blue-with-white-and-pale-yellow-signals is Iris musselmanica (aka Iris spuria spp muselmanica). And the reddish-violet iris that I've got all over the place is the water iris she used to have in her pond, before her spouse sprayed all the banks and killed her stuff.
What else is blooming today?
* yarrows in reds, pinks, lavender, peach, white
* the first Echinacea purpurea, E. paradoxa (golden yellow, and I'd thought that I'd lost all of those, so yay!), and my mystery echinacea seedling
* wild quinine, Tanacetum integrifolia (tall knobs of woolly white flowers)
* some mints
* "Nearly Wild" hybrid tea rose (single pink, rebloooming)
* louisiana iris in coppery read, reddish-violet, purple and yellow, blue, and clear purple
* red-hot pokers, Kniphofia uvaria
* I'm still getting blooms every other day from my lemon lily, Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus
* the first daylilies--Stella, a little bicolor in red and orange
* blue-flowered ajuga and sage
* "Sunset Boulevard" oenothera
* cherry bells (a tall campanula with rosy pink flowers)
* tickseed coreopsis, clear yellow daisies
* dark blue meadow sage
* the first flowers on mealy sage, Salvia farinacea
* the first flowers on lavender
* tradescantias in various shades of purples and rose
* petunias in shades of pink and lavender, a few marigolds (The Miss pulled a bunch of them up, trying to pick flowers), some dark red snaps
* and in the front yard, a BIG patch of Oenothera speciosa, Mexican evening primrose, which looks like a big patch of dainty pale pink poppies unless you know what you're looking at, invasive but showy and durable
We got most of the mowing done between yesterday and today, and most of the random piles of cut brush hauled out of the way/line of sight. I also hauled a 3-gallon sprayer of Roundup **all the way to the back property line** to start killing the Great Poison Ivy Forest. Wish me luck, and itch-free times.
We moved a pile of cinderblocks this morning, so we could lay a strip of landscape fabric down north of the garage, for the eventual planting of masses of tomatoes. The tomato bed is 4' from the wall of the garage, which is the spacing for the walkway we want to put in there, with a planned raised bed beyond that, for currents. But I've ended up with most of the tomatoes I'd been caring for for D, and need someplace to put them. And the fenced veggie garden will be full of squash rather soon. More full, because some silly human bought another packet of pumpkin seed (pie pumpkins!) yesterday, with plans to find room for those out there too. And I still have a pack of beans (white rice bean, rather cute) to plant. So many seeds, so little time.
D came over yesterday, to look at a couple of my iris and drop off a couple plants before she left town again. She's headed to her mom's again today, to look after her as long as she's needed. Her mom's docs have gotten her on some meds that let her eat, finally, and she's put on a little weight, but she's still terribly weak, and can't take care of herself. And she's got five more rounds of chemo.
On the lighter side, D identified three of my mystery iris, and said she recognized another but couldn't remember the name. The odd-colored one in the front yard is Lousiana iris "Missouri Cowboy", the large-flowered copper-colored one is Lousiana iris "Red Dazzler", and the very upright, blue-with-white-and-pale-yellow-signals is Iris musselmanica (aka Iris spuria spp muselmanica). And the reddish-violet iris that I've got all over the place is the water iris she used to have in her pond, before her spouse sprayed all the banks and killed her stuff.
What else is blooming today?
* yarrows in reds, pinks, lavender, peach, white
* the first Echinacea purpurea, E. paradoxa (golden yellow, and I'd thought that I'd lost all of those, so yay!), and my mystery echinacea seedling
* wild quinine, Tanacetum integrifolia (tall knobs of woolly white flowers)
* some mints
* "Nearly Wild" hybrid tea rose (single pink, rebloooming)
* louisiana iris in coppery read, reddish-violet, purple and yellow, blue, and clear purple
* red-hot pokers, Kniphofia uvaria
* I'm still getting blooms every other day from my lemon lily, Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus
* the first daylilies--Stella, a little bicolor in red and orange
* blue-flowered ajuga and sage
* "Sunset Boulevard" oenothera
* cherry bells (a tall campanula with rosy pink flowers)
* tickseed coreopsis, clear yellow daisies
* dark blue meadow sage
* the first flowers on mealy sage, Salvia farinacea
* the first flowers on lavender
* tradescantias in various shades of purples and rose
* petunias in shades of pink and lavender, a few marigolds (The Miss pulled a bunch of them up, trying to pick flowers), some dark red snaps
* and in the front yard, a BIG patch of Oenothera speciosa, Mexican evening primrose, which looks like a big patch of dainty pale pink poppies unless you know what you're looking at, invasive but showy and durable
We got most of the mowing done between yesterday and today, and most of the random piles of cut brush hauled out of the way/line of sight. I also hauled a 3-gallon sprayer of Roundup **all the way to the back property line** to start killing the Great Poison Ivy Forest. Wish me luck, and itch-free times.
We moved a pile of cinderblocks this morning, so we could lay a strip of landscape fabric down north of the garage, for the eventual planting of masses of tomatoes. The tomato bed is 4' from the wall of the garage, which is the spacing for the walkway we want to put in there, with a planned raised bed beyond that, for currents. But I've ended up with most of the tomatoes I'd been caring for for D, and need someplace to put them. And the fenced veggie garden will be full of squash rather soon. More full, because some silly human bought another packet of pumpkin seed (pie pumpkins!) yesterday, with plans to find room for those out there too. And I still have a pack of beans (white rice bean, rather cute) to plant. So many seeds, so little time.
