State of Garden, part 2

In case you missed it, yesterday was part 1 of the spring garden overview, here.

1. Actually this is from the front, I somehow missed it when selecting photos. The 3 roses are in temporary pots because they arrived way early, and needed to be brought inside overnight.

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We are a little concerned by the plum tree in the foreground not being in bloom yet. Normally by now it would be, but maybe it just wanted to sleep in this year.

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Yes, as seen in a previous photo, the lodge really is white. The orangey tint is from the smoke in the air. One of my projects here really soon is to add another layer of stain. I've done a light pressure washing to get winter gunge off, sanded down some rough spots, and I need to do a more thorough pressure wash around the bottom.

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I need to get out the ladder and repress the clematis, otherwise it will grow inside the eaves and between the eavestrough and the roof itself.

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Celina, once again playing hard to get for the camera.

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State of Garden, part 1

Today you get an overall look at the state of the front and side garden beds. This is very definitely a work in progress. Linda has been working hard, but it's tough sledding, what with the abrupt change in the weather. In a matter of a few weeks we went from hard core winter, to heat wave summer. And really, it's May 20 today, and this weekend is normally considered just barely safe to start putting in outdoor plants.

I walked around to capture some overall views of the various garden beds. We've got a bit of smoke in the air so the light has a bit of yellow haze tinge. They are lightly edited to give an overall impression, as opposed to the portrait quality close ups that regular readers have seen. Stay tuned for part 2, the back gardens tomorrow.

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And iris all tangled up with a rose bush.

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The white peony.

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These two clematis plants were transplanted from our back fence in 2014 (I think) when we renovated the back patio. We weren't sure if they were going to survive, but they seem pretty happy.

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The red peony.

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This pink peony produces amazing huge blooms, and seems to be really happy here. Usually peonies take a long time to get settled in, but not this one.

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One of two tree peonies that Linda planted a couple years ago. The other didn't survive, and this one has been thinking about the whole darned thing since then, barely putting up any shoots. Looks like this will be the year it emerges, and maybe even (gasp!) puts out a bloom.

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Which is actually also a serendipity of the peony photo below.

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The rocks of Miles Canyon.

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