Monday I mentioned cleaning up the Herb Garden area. Here's the progress. There are just two things left to do.
I got all the wood chips from last September moved. Most were done in the fall, but there were eight garden cart's worth left over the winter. Enough for the herb garden.
Prostrate rosemary, oregano (left), creeping thyme hanging over the rock border, and the brighter green by the orange wallflower is Roman chamomile (the perennial chamomile). There are some chives in there too, and a regular garden thyme. The bright green in the foreground is golden oregano.
This is along the back of the house where I took the dead rose out the other day. Most of the iris on this side of the rose died out, leaving just a few small ones. I put in two daylilies, the brighter green in the middle.
Another view with some unraked piles of chips.
I'm planning on using the nursery pots for a tomato, lemon cucumbers, and Dragon Tongue bush beans. The raised beds in the far back haven't been doing well the past few summers. It's been so hot and wildfire smoky. This is closer to the house, closer to the hose, and a big shadier. I have to get soil soon. I'll get the potting soil the garbage company makes from our green waste.
A wide view of both parts of the Herb Garden. The part on the right, with the prostrate rosemary, was started in April, 2012. The rosemary was one of the first herbs planted. The area on the left, with the blue rose arbor behind it, had a large stump covered with English ivy when I moved in. After years of putting up with it, thinking it would be impossible to move, we tried. It was rotten and pushed right over! So, a second Herb Garden area.
The two things left to do? Get the rest of the wisteria out of the ground, and rake the remaining piles of wood chips into the hole and around it. Then there will be the ongoing wisteria watch to cut back suckers as they appear.
I worked on the front yard too. Weeded. Transplanted a few things from out back. Hooked the hose back up. It's much easier than facing the mess that the far back has become! Since spring 2023, when I had COVID and nothing got weeded or watered or planted or tended, the weeds have taken over. There are things growing, perennials in the Butterfly Garden and Pollinator Garden beds, and my Sugar Snap peas, which went in a little later than usual.
A layer of wood chips does make things look so much nicer! Neat and seemingly under control.
The driveway looks empty without the pile of chips!
Your gardens are shaping up and looking nice. I had to look up lemon cucumbers. It's sounds like they are good for your area. I haven't seen them around here. I wonder if our summers are too hot.
ReplyDeleteYou've made some great progress.
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