How pretty is this? It must have been the owners before the family we bought the house from that decided to plant this magnolia in the backyard. Whoever it was, I currently love them.
Sunday was a bit of miscellaneous garden work. I bought myself a dahlia with a gift certificate on my birthday walkabout – that’s in the blue pot, which is currently hanging out in the sunny dining room window near the baseboard heating. I also found the iris rhizomes I’d pulled out of our old garden very late in the season before we moved. I really wasn’t sure what they’d do, but was pleasantly surprised to see that they all sprouted. So they’re in pots just to get them a little more sprouted up, and I’ll try to find them a permanent home. I’m still trying to get a better idea of how the light is in play in the yard.
And finally, I got a soil samples from the back yard and front yard done and sent off to UMO for analysis. Hopefully they don’t come back with anything more than elevated acid levels since we have so many pine trees in the backyard.