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Well look at what appeared

I’m a bit late talking about the projects last year. About 10 years ago, I bought a bell at Pennsic. The idea was that it would go in a little shelter in my backyard. Well, that was the previous house with the previous back yard. However, my hubby honey bunny didn’t stop thinking about it or planning it. This past summer, this came to the top of his project list. He made a lumber run that took most of a day. Then after 6 days of work, I had a belfry. In Japanese it would be called a shoro.

Now that looks great, but the bell needs a better cord. OK. I made a cord. I used imposter silk because it would be outside.

And it looks so good with the maple in the fall.

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How does your garden grow?

I posted back in the spring about what was blooming, starting around mid-spring. So now that mid-summer has passed, I should post about the ongoing garden offerings.

New Additions a few tickseeds:

In addition, I planted some sage, some more hyssop, and an itea bush, a beauty berry bush, and a white forsythia, and added another peony from mom.

How the transplants are doing:

Both the hydrangea and the lace cut Japanese maple where transplanted last summer/fall. The tree guys were especially concerned that the maple might not make it. Well, I think it did fine. I was very careful to water like crazy.

The already established plants showing off:

The red flowers are lobelia cardinalis. This is the latin term for hummingbird magnet. I may see one or two hummingbirds several times during the day.

Tree enjoying the sun
Butterfly bush, geranium, pennisetum (ornamental grass)
And now that there is a bit more room, the black eyed susan’s are taking over.

Some volunteers from previous years

I didn’t plant these cosmos or sunflowers, they just self-seeded from previous years.

First year for a few things

I planted the an assortment of daylilies in the fall. 50 different varieties. Not all made it, but about 75% did. Of those I’d say about half bloomed. This was the prettiest

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My First Peony

My first peony

Last fall I asked mom for some peonies. She separated her peonies and sent me four varieties. I planted them and all four varieties are growing and have buds. The first one bloomed today. This is my first time growing peonies. It looks pretty nice with the crimson Japanese lace leaf maple behind it.

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First Iris of the Season

This is the first of my irises to bloom this season. Last fall, I dug them all up and separated them, and gave most away. I made sure to keep some of the “grapies” and some of the “mauves”. I only got two stalks so far and both are grapies, but the mauves usually are a couple weeks behind, so we will see if I get any mauves.

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How the garden grows

Spring shows all the work I did last year. In the front yard, top left, you see the dark red transplanted maple, the transplanted hydrangea just in front of the maple on the left, and the peonies that mom sent last fall. All the other picture are the back yard. In the back yard, the landscaping was done last April. I added plants throughout the summer. I planted the daffodils last fall. Come summer we will see all the daylilies I planted on the hill below the daffodils.