The yard work gods have smiled upon me! Fourteen bags into my raking funfest, I ran out. Fortunately, I remembered some slightly smaller bags I had upstairs. There were four of those left, which turned out to be the exact number I needed to get everything bagged up and in the garage, pending pick up

Nine bags later, the backyard looks pretty good, doesn’t it? That’s until you see what’s hidden beside the garage. Thankfully, there’s no way that’s nine more bags worth of leaves…

This would be my backyard on Monday. I actually managed to get a fair amount of this pushed toward the back fence before I made the mistake of manually cleaning off the kidlet’s playscape, and the resulting wet state of my gloves gave me a charming blister on my thumb. So I’ve given that a

I finally remembered to take some pictures of the back garden today. I’m not sure why I’ve had a mental block on the back garden for the last month. It’s actually been doing pretty well back there, in some ways better than the side garden. (The side garden is definitely suffering from all the rain

The good news is, the garden is coming along. The phlox, liatris and echinacea are all blooming, and we’ve gotten a decent amount of rain, so everything is looking pretty lush. The bad news is, we’ve gotten a decent amount of rain, so the phlox, liatris and echinacea have all come in sideways, due to

The garden is coming along quite nicely. It’s actually fairly colorful the entire way down the line, on top of a great deal of various green foliage. I seem to have hit upon a fairly good mix to obscure the worst of the bulb foliage, so while a good chunk of that is still there,

A random hollyhock has appeared in my garden. Actually, after a little pondering, I’m fairly sure I’ve been weeding those out aggressively for the past four years. It is in the middle of the patch where the rose once reigned supreme, so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, but it’s just so random! In other