We actually have some gardening started, too. Caitlin, Madi and I dug up the garden by the back door. The Bushongs had planted a lot of cinnamon fern, which is wonderful, but also gout weed, which will take over everything. We dug all the plants out, and pulled gout weed root until we wanted to scream. We replanted many of the cinnamon fern, plus some hostas and astilbes we moved from the house in Battle Creek. Our little area looks terrific.
It’s been great fun to watch all the plants pop up. In early March the area around the outside basement door was loaded with snow drops. Across from the driveway is a patch of daffodils, grape hyacinths, peonies, lambs ears and tulips. At the back of the ell are Star of Bethlehem and a nice lancefolia hosta. There is also a beautiful twisty-leaved variegated hosta by the basement door, some sedum and lots of lily of the valley along the north wall.
Along the stone wall by the road are hundreds of “road-side lilies.” On the south side of the house under the old maple tree are lots of Virginia Blue Bells. They are very cute and very fragrant. The three forsythia bushes were surrounded by blue Siberian Scilla, which looked so pretty under the yellow forsythia.
The magnolia tree was just spectacular. It’s so old and huge and you have to duck under the branches to get up to the trunk. Now the huge petals have blanketed the ground around the tree, and it’s just magical to hide away underneath there.
There are also many, many lilac bushes. They need shaping and pruning since they’ve been unkempt for many years but they must be decades and decades old.
It’s been great fun to watch all the plants pop up. In early March the area around the outside basement door was loaded with snow drops. Across from the driveway is a patch of daffodils, grape hyacinths, peonies, lambs ears and tulips. At the back of the ell are Star of Bethlehem and a nice lancefolia hosta. There is also a beautiful twisty-leaved variegated hosta by the basement door, some sedum and lots of lily of the valley along the north wall.
Along the stone wall by the road are hundreds of “road-side lilies.” On the south side of the house under the old maple tree are lots of Virginia Blue Bells. They are very cute and very fragrant. The three forsythia bushes were surrounded by blue Siberian Scilla, which looked so pretty under the yellow forsythia.
The magnolia tree was just spectacular. It’s so old and huge and you have to duck under the branches to get up to the trunk. Now the huge petals have blanketed the ground around the tree, and it’s just magical to hide away underneath there.
There are also many, many lilac bushes. They need shaping and pruning since they’ve been unkempt for many years but they must be decades and decades old.
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