Comments on: First opportunities http://blog.blithewold.org/uncategorized/first-opportunities/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Thu, 23 May 2013 15:15:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ginny http://blog.blithewold.org/uncategorized/first-opportunities/comment-page-1/#comment-10815 Ginny Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:17:42 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4811#comment-10815 First day cleaning up our new garden. Getting to know you....and all about you. Getting to like you... getting to hope you like me. That's how it felt. Weird but somehow familiar. Raking up the tiny lawn, cutting back a clump of ornamental grass (not sure I'll keep that one) seeing where the problems are (drainage), wondering what to plant on the sidewalk raised bed that passing tourists won't pick (poison ivy?). Window boxes to fill, a new stone terrace and little shed to be built this spring. Hitting the nurseries as soon as the gates open. Hang on, this is going to be a zippy spring. <em>Ginny, What fun it is getting to know a new garden - with all of its problems to solve and possibilities. (I hope you've started a new journal!) The sidewalk bed does present a certain challenge given that late night Newport revelers seem to make a sport of uprooting container plants... Poison ivy does have a lovely fall color... How about a little patch of nettle maybe for instant gratification? -kris</em> First day cleaning up our new garden. Getting to know you….and all about you. Getting to like you… getting to hope you like me. That’s how it felt. Weird but somehow familiar. Raking up the tiny lawn, cutting back a clump of ornamental grass (not sure I’ll keep that one) seeing where the problems are (drainage), wondering what to plant on the sidewalk raised bed that passing tourists won’t pick (poison ivy?).

Window boxes to fill, a new stone terrace and little shed to be built this spring. Hitting the nurseries as soon as the gates open. Hang on, this is going to be a zippy spring.

Ginny, What fun it is getting to know a new garden – with all of its problems to solve and possibilities. (I hope you’ve started a new journal!) The sidewalk bed does present a certain challenge given that late night Newport revelers seem to make a sport of uprooting container plants… Poison ivy does have a lovely fall color… How about a little patch of nettle maybe for instant gratification? -kris

]]> By: Susan Sims http://blog.blithewold.org/uncategorized/first-opportunities/comment-page-1/#comment-10807 Susan Sims Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:15:20 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4811#comment-10807 Ha. Hee hee. Haha! Hahahahahaha! Oh sweet mercy, the chaos in my back garden. Spring cleanup? Starting the veg garden? Broadcasting 5 cyd. of compost everywhere? Cutting down trees? Tearing out massive, massive, junipers? Fences down and replaced? Boulders of varying and ridiculous tonnages being hauled in with heavy machinery? Putting in raised beds? A new flagstone patio? Raising the grade? Going broke? I figure the only thing I'm not doing right now is what I really truly want: tearing down the beast shed. <em>Susan, I can count on you to make me feel like a total slacker... But your ambition is inspiring. Cheers to chaos. Garden on! -kris </em> Ha. Hee hee. Haha! Hahahahahaha!

Oh sweet mercy, the chaos in my back garden. Spring cleanup? Starting the veg garden? Broadcasting 5 cyd. of compost everywhere? Cutting down trees? Tearing out massive, massive, junipers? Fences down and replaced? Boulders of varying and ridiculous tonnages being hauled in with heavy machinery? Putting in raised beds? A new flagstone patio? Raising the grade? Going broke?

I figure the only thing I’m not doing right now is what I really truly want: tearing down the beast shed.

Susan, I can count on you to make me feel like a total slacker… But your ambition is inspiring. Cheers to chaos. Garden on! -kris

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