Garden Time!

School is finally over. Now it's time to work in the studio again, and do some gardening The rain has caused the garden to turn into a jungle. I shouldn't complain it has taken me 3+ years to get the garden to fill in and take care of itself. I was always jealous of the other gardeners who would ask me if I wanted some plants because theirs were "just so overgrown". Well now I have given away a few plants myself. I just really want my Mums to take I thought this was going to be the big year but I only got two. They were beautiful, maybe next year.

I have definitely learned so much from my neighbors. I will never remember all the names but as long as I can draw it or write it down I am all set. I went to Allendale Farms the other day and I brought a piece of one of my favorite plants /flowers. It is called Lantana yes, I know this to be true and its the ONLY one. Anyway, my go to gardener at the farm said with excitement in her voice but in a freaky kind of way "where did you get this??!!?" I told her I dug it up out of the garden and out it on my back porch which is closed in but has windows on three sides so I make it my green house for the winter ( along with the bugs and worms) yuck. She said this plant does not grow or bloom for another month! How did you do that and it survived? Yes , I was surprised too it survived me? So I left with some Pansies like everyone else and of course like every year when it does come in I miss my 4 day opportunity to get it because its already sold out.

So I have been nursing the same two plants for a few years. They almost die by about April then they make a slight come back by May and I get them back in the ground and so it goes on........But we have come a long, long, way from the bachelor pad/ Pit Bull breeding "yard"?/ shed for motorcycle that is seen better days. To a nice little average Jamaica Plain house with kitschy things and yard sale finds or garbage.....and when I am out front water on a nice summer nights I get surprised when the neighbors that are out for a walk come by and say just two words to me. Thank You.
Was it really that bad.....I can't remember anymore.

Before and afters anyone?