It is back to cool wet, maybe a dash of snow up top kind of weather. That's ok. Things were speeding up so fast it was getting a little scary. Another hard freezing spell could wreck things if they had advanced too far in this heat wave.
A little bulb of everything rises from the earth. On each walk across the ridge top garden Bulbarella finds another clump of daffodils she missed in her deleafing and fertilizing routine. "There's another one I missed," an exclamation that comes more as one of joy.
Mini spring has caused another flurry of activity. While spreading mulch at Client #1's, doing actual paid work, I was hired to prune roses and then to design a bed in the dry shade of maples, the toughest of gardening challenges. This bed design must incorporate an existing small pond, shed and large sculpture. There is now a Client # 3 with another extensive garden in the best of neighborhoods. I do need to check in with Client # 2 and see if they would like to hire me again for more work. The gardening season is on.
We must enjoy the Iris reticulata 'Harmony' while we can.
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Iris, even!
(Yay for clients!)
Spring coming forth. Work will increase. I'm hoping for time & energy to do all that is required.
Yes, too much warm weather can be hazardous more so if freeze comes next.
Aha, I sense a business building up!
Interesting that you have so much blooming up on your mountaintop; you are ahead of me here in z. 7 by a tributary of the Chesapeake.
And wow, Bulbarella fertilizes 10,000 clumps of bulbs? She ain't got her name for nothing! (:
bev
Nice photos. I know what you mean about mini-spring. Just when the gardener and the garden get used to the idea of warmer weather, in drops a cold front.
Good luck with your clients.
Oh, this is a good news post! More paid work, like the good neighborhood part especially. Do you have a magnetic sign for your truck? A small expenditure with a large benefit. Website in the works? Or phone number on the sign? Sorry, got carried away there with excitement. Hooray for bulbs and their planters too. :-)
Frances
Wow, dry shade under a maple! I'll be interested to see how that goes, maples often have such fine and greedy roots.
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