Secret Garden

Amazing what a person can find in a garden when there's someone who knows something about green things is around! When my parents rolled into town this past weekend, they came prepared to work. My mom and dad helped us identify some of the shrubs in the backyard (the big overgrown one was a potentilla, and the one that blocks off the outside tap and the electricity meter is suspected to be a Rose of Sharon (which isn't a rose but a shrub with really pretty pink flowers). My dad pruned down the potentilla (while providing instructions for future upkeep!) and the dead branches on the big yellow rose bush, and then planted the shoot from my grandmother's hansa rose that they brought from Edmonton. It's meant to be big hardy rose bush like the yellow one in the yard, so hopefully it will establish itself well! Did some weeding and dandelion pulling, which amused my mom because my dandelion extraction technique removes quite a large section of lawn at the same time … she showed me a better technique, but it was little too late for some parts of the backyard lawn :)

The tulips that I planted in the fall are just about ready to bloom now - just need a another day or so of sun! And one of my mini-callas has sprouted - it's nearly and inch high already! - and I think that the other bulb is going to make an appearance anyday - there's a big crack in the soil!

Comments

[Carolyn J.]

If you ever find something in your yard that you can't identify, just e-mail Holes' Greenhouse. They helped me with the snowball bush in my front yard; just send them a picture and they'll figure it out. http://www.holesonline.com/

[ani]

Your garden must be so lovely.

[QC]

Sounds wonderful! I have a soft spot for Rose of Sharon, especially...my grandparents had them growing along the edge of their property when I was growing up.

[laura]

That's really cool about Hole's - just another reason to love that place :)