With two whole rain-free days over 50 degrees, I have made the most of the nice weather. Yesterday my daughter and I finished up weeding the beds, cleaned out the strawberry bed, laid down another bag of bark mulch, and trimmed the candytuft and dead daylily leaves from last summer.
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| Cleaned up strawberry bed, only the strong were left behind. Still looks pretty messy. |
One of the reasons I didn't join in the garden frenzy of getting things planted this weekend, like so many other gardeners, was that my beds are still completely shaded by the fence.
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| A few more weeks and the front edge of the beds will finally see some sun. |
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More importantly, my dwarf Bing cherry tree finally got put in the ground. My husband was kind enough to do all the hard work of raking off the top layer of lava rock and digging the hole. Then we poured in a small pile of compost, spread the roots around the pile, and held the tree in place while filling the hole in around it. My fingers are crossed and I'm hoping it will do well.
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| View of the cherry from the road. Not much of a view yet. |
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| Cherry tree, between the new sprouts of the daylilies. |
The next thing on my list of garden to-do items is planting the camellia. If I don't collapse in agony after that, it's back to work on the blackberries. I might just be able to get ahead of them before they really start growing.
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| Tools are all ready for the camellia. |
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| Camellia all ready to be planted. Only one not ready is me! |
Hope everyone's out there enjoying some sunshine!
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