Garden Journal

She then ran over to say hi to the peacocks. TOO ADORABLE.    

You know how I have a big cemetery in my front yard right now? Metal fence, big gravestones, etc.? I decided the parkway fairy garden ALSO needed a cemetery. The ghosts glow in the dark.

These always feel like such a gift.

The last few weeks have been extra- harried, and I haven’t been able to get out into the garden, but I finally made it out there yesterday. At least one of my late-planted dahlias is actually blooming — I tried planting dahlias in the parkway for the first time, which was clearly a good choice

The garden has totally gotten away from me this year — I didn’t get my mulch down in May, made a partial effort in late June / early July, and now much of my yard is a wasteland of weeds, only somewhat camouflaged by all the blooming perennials (thank all the gods for them). I

More garden experiments. In the central triangle bed, I threw in some mesclun lettuce seeds (which seem to have mostly disappeared), and two kinds of kale (why, I’m not sure, we don’t even eat kale that often) — Redbor F1 and Feathered Frills. They both seem to be coming up fine, but again, I’m not