Monday, June 10, 2019

Better luck next time

I had to go out to the farm and check on the bees - good thing I did, one hive was getting cramped and thinking about planning a swarm. They have enough room now, they should be happy for a few weeks.
It meant that I only had one day to get things done, and it got hot fast. I got a trash bag worth of poison ivy pulled, the lawn mowed, the driveway swept and the cracks treated with vinegar, and the overgrown white lilac taken down by the back door. (Thus making the brush pile big again. sigh.)
That garden currently looks like crap - like an over gown toddler got loose with scissors and mauled the bushes. There's a honey suckle in there that caught part of the pruning, but still needs more. A few thing happened about the same time - I noticed some very healthy poison ivy growing in there, and I wasn't properly gloved for dealing with it; it reached peak hot for the day; and I ran out of giddyup. This last part was probably because I wasn't drinking or eating enough. I called it quits, dragged myself to the shower and then to bed for a nap. (I don't nap.)
I had wanted to get the last of the basement clean out and the cellar stairs painted, but that wasn't going to happen. I felt like I'd been hit by a truck, so I made dinner and binge watched some Tv.

But here's some pretty pictures of what's flowering!
Single peonies and Siberian irises

I have found one hill of white/yellow irises out back.
I'd like to divide and sprinkle this around to breakup all the purple, but there's not much of it.

I do have one double peony plant!
Big floppy happy plants.

There's a mock orange out by the shed.
It needs a hard haircut, and the branches above it need a hard trim.

Single peonies

Iris and False Solomon's Seal.

The rhubarb is going to flower.

Front of the house. That whole bed is purple iris, purple spiderwort, and poison ivy.
This whole area needs to be reworked, but I'm afraid the only solutions are going to be well beyond my budget.

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