Category: My Garden

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Gardening

Shelly

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I stayed an extra day in Muncie, leaving this morning. I didn’t do too badly with getting out early (I think I left around 8am), but then I missed a turn-off and ended up going about 25 miles out of my way. It might have been fine, if I’d wanted to come back via Indy, but I really wanted to go through Rushville and Columbus, so I back-tracked and lost about 45 minutes. I’m glad I did, though, because it was a gorgeous drive. And! I found three cool graveyards that I want to stop at on my next trip. One is just a little cluster of headstones in the middle of a corn field. Very neat.

And even though I left fairly early, I still had time to get a few plants: bleeding hearts, buttercups (very different from the low-growing ones out in the back field), and sedum.

My primroses haven’t bloomed yet, but the buds are getting pretty big. I should have flowers soon! The coral bells waited for me to get home, too. They look like they’re about to pop any minute.

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Coral Bells

Shelly

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I’m trying to get my shit together to leave in the morning, so I don’t have much time, but I had to get a quick shot of my little coral bell blossoms. I was sure it wouldn’t bloom this year, since it was transplanted, but I guess it’s happy where here.

The columbine I transplanted last weekend is looking really good, too. It’s full of buds that will hopefully open soon.

Did I mention that folks here call peonies “PIE-nees”? Well, the coworker I got the coral bells from called them “cora BELLS.” With the stress on the second word. It took me a minute to figure out what she meant. Older folks here also say quarry with a long “a,” which makes my ears bleed a little bit.

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Leaves of Three

Shelly

Despite the fact that I know what poison ivy looks like, and despite the fact that Ms. Lea was good enough to point out that I was about to walk through a bunch of it, I still managed to get it on me. There’s one tiny spot on my right thumb, about 10 little spots on my right arm, a little spot on the top of my left ear, and, somehow, a small patch of it on the back of my neck.

So careless of me. And now I’m itchy.

BUT!!! The coral bells I got from my awesome coworker? They had two bloom spikes sticking up last night. Wheee! And the primroses I got from her are also starting to get tiny, proto-buds. I may actually end up with a few flowers in my little garden.

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Garden

Shelly

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I went out to Owen County this afternoon, to dig up plants. I got several varieties of lilies and irises, as well as a couple of columbine plants. The weather folks are threatening us with rain tonight, so I came straight home and got them (the plants, not the weather folks) into the ground.

Hopefully, these’ll do better than the seeds I planted. It was just too cool this spring for them to sprout, and the ones that did got chomped on by bugs and, I suspect, the local wee woodland critters.

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Coral Bells

Shelly

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I don\’t think these are going to bloom this year, after being transplanted, but the foliage is pretty, especially when it’s speckled with raindrops. These don’t look anything like the leaves on my mom’s coral bells. Hers are pointy and dark purple. These remind me of geranium leaves (I think mine must be the “green spice” variety).

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Watching the storm start to form

Shelly

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When I left for work this morning, there was a bank of clouds starting to move in from the west. There was still enough clear sky in the east at sunrise for the windows across from me to sparkle, but it was pretty hazy and you can see the clouds starting to pile up in the northwest. As the day progressed, the clouds thickened, and this afternoon, the wind picked up just before the rain started.

It ended up being a non-event, storm-wise, but the rain was welcome. My little seedlings are just starting to stick their heads above ground. I was getting worried, because the soil is heavy and full of clay. I wasn’t sure they’d be able to force their way up.

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More Violets

Shelly

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I like these better than the last violet photo I took. The top one is one of those “set the camera on the ground and cross your fingers” photos. The bottom one has some funky lens distortion, but I kind of like it that way.

There are literally thousands and thousands of little violets out back–way more than there were last spring.

In garden news, the coreopsis and daisies are in the ground. So far, all the transplants from my coworker are perfectly happy. It’s like they didn’t even realize they were moved.

And, another coworker offered me starts from some of her plants, as well. I feel kind of like a junkie with two dealers.

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Fog

Shelly

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It’s like pea soup out there. I can’t even see Business/SPEA (that building I’m always pointing my camera at). But! Lookit the trees! They started popping out leaves a week or so ago, but over the weekend they went from pale green fuzz to real, live leaves.

I hope the rain on Saturday and the cool, damp weather makes my seeds sprout. Now that they’re in the ground, I’m kind of anxious. I want flowers now, damnit.

And speaking of, I have primroses and asters sitting under my desk (courtesy of my very kind coworker). Those will go in the ground tonight. She’s going to bring me some daisies and coreopsis, too.