Planted my herbs and tomatoes this morning. Did more weeding in front.

Diana, good for you, getting your herbs and tomatoes planted. Hope you have a great harvest!

Today, I did some weeding at the back.

Bless'
They are in larger pots! Hopefully they will take. I think the squirrels like to share the tomatoes.

I too have been weeding when I take GypsAy outside. A section, here and there.

Diana, pots are good. Lots of veggies can grow in containers without any problem - tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, etc.

Yesterday, I looked through a gardening book while waiting for DD at gymnastics. One of the gardens featured was designed to be enjoyed in the evening and at night, because that's when the homeowners were at home: lots of white/cream/yellow flowers, grey foliage, and night-blooming, scented flowers. I thought that was a very clever idea and good for me, because I am home mostly in the evenings/nights!

Another garden in the book had something called a "white border" - again, featuring mostly white flowers and grey foliage. Then, yesterday evening, as I went out to collect the mail, I realized - I had a white border too! And totally by accident! The flower bed in front of the house, along the walkway, is planted mostly with white flowers and grey foliage! I have Iceberg roses, paperwhites, white African daisies, sweet alyssum, and dusty miller (grey foliage/yellow flowers) growing there!

I never planned it to be an all white border, which is why there is also a red flowered pomegranate tree and 2 blue flowered agapanthus (Lily of the Nile) sharing the bed! Originally, I had yellow flowered shrubs growing there, but when they died, I just planted various other plants as a stop-gap measure (except for the pomegranate tree, which was a gift from the monks when we moved into this house, since, in our culture, it is considered lucky to have a pomegranate tree growing in the front).

I am amused by how my white border happened. I planted the paperwhites because I had some leftover bulbs after planting them at the back and the dusty miller because it is drought tolerant and takes the hot afternoon/evening sun in the summer. The iceberg rose is a gift from my gardener - he had it in his garden and it wouldn't grow, so he planted it in my garden and it is thriving (along with another red rose he couldn't get to grow in his garden!) The white African daisies self seeded themselves from plants grown elsewhere in the garden and the sweet alyssum seems to grow as a weed in my garden, although the garden center sells them in packs.

But now that I have become aware of the fact that I have a mostly white border, I think I will develop that concept a bit further! From now on, anything I plant newly in that flower bed should be white flowered! Maybe, too, I should have other flower beds devoted to flowers of a single color? An all pink flower bed? An all blue flower bed? I already have an all purple flower bed at the back, but that is because it is all planted with one kind of plant (geranium).

Isn't amazing how that happened Bless! I love the paperwhites, and sweet alyssum. I have some ground cover on either side of the drivewat, that is a grayish green leaf, and white little flowers blooming now like baby daisys. It was from 2 plants on either side, and has been filling in more each year! Don't know what it is though.

Got some Gerber daisies, and love how they look (in front).
Still pulling weeds. I can grow those very well!

Bought my mother 12 tomato plants, a big bag of potting soil and some purple flower plants and dropped them off to her today. She loves nothing better than tending to her garden on her small patio. Should keep her happy for a while.

Those all white borders must be so pretty.

I am finding new tulips open every day and there are some delightful colours. It is pretty dry out, so I watered them and also the jonquils that are popping up here and there.

The amelanchiers have dropped their blossoms, now it is the turn of the pin cherries to shine! Later, the birds and chipmunks will have a heyday with the fruit.

My rhubarb is looking very healthy, and the lilacs have buds, and I was amazed to find that I have buds on the lily of the valley. I'll swear there were hardly any leaves coming up yesterday and now they are racing into bloom! Instant spring!

A friend gave me a plant yesterday that she had won. Put it out on the screened in. Will keep you posted on its progress.

I need to water the garden, today - both front and back.

I sometimes water the tulips and daffodils scattered around, as well as the rhubarb. Watering is not my favourite activity with the insect life around now, but worth the effort.

DH and I both make a point to walk the trails that DS cut. Our neighbour came over with his chipper and helped get rid of some brush piles and DH scattered chips on parts of the trail that needed smoothing out. We have a giant brush pile to get rid of soon, so we will always have enough chips to define trails.