We finished up the major weeding and escaped injury except for one bramble plant that managed to snag a patch of bare skin on my arm, twist it, and make me cry. Bad plant! With the area thus cleared, we used M's rototiller one more time. I was on rock patrol. Everytime the rotoiller kicked up a chunk of quartz, I'd use the rake to move it aside.
With the major weeding accomplished and all the cool weather vegetables planted, it was time for some photography. The orchard is blooming now with daffodils. We planted 400 bulbs in 2009 and another 400 in 2010, and they are already putting on a spectacular display. The area in the photo is large, over an acre, and we have 30 fruit trees in metal cages to keep them safe from deer and critters. There are about 10 apple trees of various types; peaches, plums, pears, cherry and apricots. We're hoping the daffodils spread out so that we will have a carpet of them underneath the flower canopy when the trees mature. They are only 2-3 years old now and according to the books we read, they will take several more years before they are mature enough to bear fruit, but in the meantime we plant more bulbs each year in the hope of things to come.
Enjoy the pictures taken around the gardens yesterday.....and not to be outdone, since I'm always sharing pictures of Pierre, Shadow finally sat still long enough for me to get a good picture of her.
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| Orchard |
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| Flowers under the kitchen windows |
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| Little tulips next to the garage |
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| Tulips, almost finished blooming |
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| Phlox in front of the house |
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| Candytuft |
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| Miss Shadow dressed for "work" with her purple bandana and tennis ball |
4 comments:
Lovely, all of it including the dog. How many daffodils will you plant this year? When I'm planting 400 seems like too many. When they bloom, 4000 would seem too few.
LOL! What wisdom, Nell Jean. Indeed, when we plant them we're grumbling about how many to plant, and then in the spring we realize it's never enough. We keep saying we'll cut back, then end up ordering hundreds again. When they bloom in such a wide open area, you need that many to make an impact.
Those daffodils are awesome scattered in the orchard! In time you will be the talk of the town with those daffys… I so wish for a kitchen sink with a window for beautiful garden viewing. Maybe some day when the Kitchen is renovated, until then, I can dream on...
Skeeter, my kitchen sink is against a wall, so no view there. I am, however, blessed to have large windows and my table is tucked under them. There is a little garden there where my fountain goes in the spring and the deck next to it so I can sit outside and listen to the fountain.
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