Dirt, and lots of it.

I know I promised pictures of my gardens for anyone who is interested, but right now there’s not a ton of stuff worth looking at.  The flowers are just starting to fill in.  The hostas haven’t even opened yet.  I have a lot of newly planted mums (which Monkey calls “Mommies”) but that’s about it.  I’ll take pictures in a few more weeks when the flowers are actually there, not just peeking through the ground.

The last few days, though, I have been outside working hard at putting another new flowerbed in on the east side of my house.  It will create a nice view from the deck over a large flower garden with a rock retaining wall and something tall in the middle like a large tree.  The rest of the garden extends around the back of the deck and down the side of the house.  I put in one of those plastic border thingies yesterday and I am getting all the dirt turned and the grass taken out.  Next trip to Home Depot I have to load up on a whole bunch of bags of black earth to turn into our very clay-y soil to make something that will actually support flower growth. 

I think I am going to make the tree in the middle a magnolia tree- there is apparently one variety that can survive Canadian winters, but it doesn’t look anything like the magnolias I am used to.  It is a lot smaller and not as pretty- small flowers compared the the dinner plate sized ones I have seen before- but I still like it and magnolias are one of my favorite flowers by far.  I saw some at the Home Depot on Saturday.  I might have to go back with Hockey Guy and have him take a look and see what he thinks.

So, that’s what I have been up to lately.  Getting really, really dirty.  And loving it.  Nothing compares to the feeling of warm soil in your hands and the ache of your arms and legs after working in the garden all day.

And watching the flowers come up.  That’s my favorite.

~ by Krista on April 30, 2009.