There was an earthquake in the miniature Garden last week causing damage to my road. It was caused by a mole, much repair work will need to be done. I have since put down a good layer of mole repellant and I hope that works. Moles do a lot of damage to gardens as they look for worms to eat, swimming through the soil. In a miniature garden that damage is exaggerated, ripping up roads and pushing up plants, I do hope he does not come back.
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I have been working hard in the garden, so much that i have been too tired to post anything. We have had several visitors to the garden since my last post, including the Low Maintenance Red Hat Babes from Chanute Kansas pictured here at the left.
Richards sister Carol was here for a couple of days at the end of May. We had a nice visit and hope she can come back soon. Then in June we had a few good friends out for a barbecue....getting a bit too hot for that now. Next came the red hatters and today was the local Pond Tour. I am through with most of the garden work except for maintenance like weeding and watering, let me tell you that takes enough time. I am continuing to work on the miniature garden, adding more people, cars, horses, roads and the like. I will try and post new pictures of it soon. All the watering combined with the drought and we have water woes. We do not have rural water and use a well, we also have a cistern but it leaks right now and needs repair. Richard has had to haul water a number of times and finally had enough, we will be getting rural water soon. Work on that starts this Monday. I will have to cut some of the milkweed and will try starting new plants with cuttings, hope it works. Once the rural water is hooked up we will have two water systems, the well and cistern for garden use and rural water for the house. I will be doing laundry at home again! The old greenhouse in my labyrinth garden is getting a makeover. Although it is not quite done I thought I would show a before and after of it. In the first picture you can see the concrete board was coming apart and falling off. I keep a lot of plants in that green house over the winter so it is very important to keep it in good shape. I have a ponderosa lemon tree that was my grandmothers, it has gotten so big it never comes out, I love that tree. This is how the greenhouse looks now, with log cabin siding. I would never have thought of using log cabin siding on a greenhouse but I like it. It really dresses up the garden. The path you see in front of the greenhouse is made up of names of pets I have had throughout my life, dogs, cats,mice,hamsters, birds and a praying mantis. I hope to work on it this year but it will be a year or two before it is complete.
I don't know why more people don't grow milkweed, it is a wonderful group of plants. This a a picture from my Monarch Waystation beside my house. The common milkweed is in bloom and attracting all kinds of butterflies! At one time today I counted 5 different kinds of butterflies, I have been out there with the camera clicking away. Besides attracting butterflies and moths it smells wonderful, I have had people describe it as similar to honeysuckle and lilac, whatever it smells like it is sweet and lovely. Please do try growing some common milkweed, you won't regret it.
i had a real cartoon fall walking my two dogs and have been pretty sore and bruised, but I am back now and will be back to updating my site more often. I have been busy with the camera and have some good pictures to add. I did add a couple today you can find them at the bottom of the Garden page. We had 17 or 18 people walk the labyrinth for world labyrinth day. It was a very hot spring day with a high temp of 90 degrees. Not a bad turnout for my first event. The trolly from Iola will be coming to my garden on June 23rd. I have not decided yet if I will have an event other than that for June. I am thinking an evening of music would be nice and people could walk the labyrinth whenever they want that night.
I know i promised pictures but that day was a very bad day, everything went wrong, and it put me behind in getting ready for the labyrinth walk tomorrow. I was hoping to have more of the garden done but it will have to do. It is looking pretty good now just a few things left to do. I will post pictures after the walk. Then I will start planning my next event. Maybe an evening of music in the garden for
June? Any ideas out there? Let me know what you think. I would like to have one event a month. I already plan a candlelight walk in the fall. I still have work to do in the garden that I wanted to get done before the walk saturday. I am working 12 hours a day in the garden and feel I may not get everything done, I am going need a rest when it is all over with. I want to work in my miniature garden but there are so many other things that need done first. I am going to take some pictures out there today so look for some new ones soon. If I am not too tired tonight I will add them when I come in.
My newest rose is called "TINY FAIRY" it is a micro mini rose. It started blooming and I have posted a couple of pictures of it on the garden page. It is loaded with buds, so there will be more pictures coming. I have started working in the mini garden again, well it's really more like playing, except for the weeding. I wish the elfin thyme I planted for grass would start spreading, it would look better. Today I am taking out some more of the people I have made, now finding places for them is playing.
I have not posted for a while because I have been working in the garden till I am so tired all I want to do is clean up and go to bed. Planting, weeding, watering. I just want to sit back and enjoy it but first I have to get everything planted. We have repaired two old benches and put them in the garden the other day and they look nice. You can see one of them on the Garden page. Richard is going to be residing the greenhouse soon, when it is finished I will post before and after pictures. Right now it looks really bad and it is a prominent feature there, it has ruined many of my pictures.
I have an old rose I got from my grandmother and will be moving it where it can be appreciated this week. It was introduced in about 1910 and is called Dr Van Fleet. I love this rose! It smells wonderful and is very pretty, I just wish it bloomed all summer. |