Thursday, February 21st, 2008 « A Mother’s Journal

Garden Bed As It Is Now

By Lynn, on February 21st, 2008%

Here are the plants that’ll be left in place:

A load of mulch will be delivered next week. I have dirt in the compost that will be worked in. It should be beautiful this spring and summer!

Lynn

Planning A New Garden Bed

By Lynn, on February 21st, 2008%

Well, the garden bed isn’t new, but it’s newly emptied and ready to be re-planned and planted! I am so excited about this!

Isn’t it cool???

It is a clean slate, with the exception of a few things that I’ll leave. There are lillies in this bed that have not come fully through the ground yet. There’s a small nandina that I’ll keep; two have already been pulled out. There’s a small rose that I might keep. The rue will be cut back. The lamb’s ear will be thinned and the pinks might be thinned.

I spent some time out just walking around some stores today looking at plants. I could not really grocery shop since I have orders to not lift anything, but I did get three boxes of plant bulbs/roots. They are light!

And I got a couple of new gardening magazines.

I think the hollyhocks would be nice at the back of the bed with another not-as-tall plant right in front of it. I love hollyhocks!

I am about to sit down and read my new gardening magazines. And write out my plans in my gardening journal with our new Prang pencils.

Lynn

I am the mother of four delightful children: a 23-year-old son, a 20-year-old son, a 17-year-old son, and a bright and bubbly 13-year-old daughter. I share an apartment home with my 17-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter. My little home on the internet is called Rose Cottage because of my love for gardening, roses, and all things romantic and Victorian. Welcome.

I'm a North Carolina girl and I love sharing North Carolina links and information. I do medical transcription from home. My hobbies include making sweet little dolls from clay who are named and have their own stories to tell. I also make old-fashioned brooches. These are for sale in my Etsy shop.

For 13 years continuously, I homeschooled some or all of our four children, but the time came that our homeschool had to be closed. It was the end of a beautiful chapter in my life. I will always be a strong supporter of homeschooling and I will continue to review books and maintain my homeschool website, The Healthy Homeschool.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
William Henry Channing
1810-1884