It's a perfect day in Athens. Absolutely perfect. I went into the garden a couple of hours after waking, just walked in to check voicemail and email, and plan to go back out and stay there until the sun sets or I run out of energy, whichever comes first. Moving and dividing the gigantic canna bed yesterday was very labor-intensive so today I'm focusing on a hundred smaller projects I've been meaning to get to. Among other things, even though I didn't even grow coleus last year, some plants from two seasons ago reseeded so freely I've got a gezillion coleus seedlings popping up in a path, right through the gravel. Jen pointed it out to me last week and I groaned: excavating 2-3 inch seedlings from gravel, not a whole lotta fun. But it wasn't as hard to do as expected, and I salvaged a few dozen. Which is good cuz our lawn men arrive this week and would no doubt have killed them.

There's still about 50-100 cannas out there to move (agh!) but they'll wait until our backs are more rested. Anyone in or near Athens who would like to join me in this madness is welcome to come and cart off enough plants to get an entire small garden going. Want cannas? Ha. It's gotten utterly redonkulous how much we've got to give away!

Blooming now Chez Brame: irises of all types, azaleas and rhodies, some very late perverted tulips (way too warm for tulips yet here they are), lorapetulum, dicentra (aka bleeding hearts), creeping rosemary, the blue flowers whose name I always forget, vinca (the big vining groundcover), phlox, and a handful of bulbs that should've finished by now (anemones, muscari, especially) but are still pretending it's early spring. I won't count the annuals I've recently stuck hither and yon for early color since my real goal is to make the garden all perennial all the time. Otherwise, there are about a thousand plants out there coming in so strong I can't wait to see what it looks like here in a month. Did I mention I've got tons to give away? :)

I'll get back to sex soon.

April 21, 2008 in Pleasures of the Garden | Permalink

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I think gardening is kind of like sex. I mean, after all, gardeners manipulate the life and death and reproduction of plant life, much like people manipulate their own life/death/reproduction.

I envy your garden, and I hope it renews you and your family. We want pictures when things are in full bloom!

Posted by: FanGirlAmanda at Apr 21, 2008 7:24:17 PM

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