5-11-06 SHORT HILLS: It looked like rain all day as I was again slaving away trimming Judy’s hedges around the pool, yews, with many dead canes to be snipped and sawed off, raked up and piled in and on top of the car. Also I cleaned up the pool area and did a bit more weeding. It never ends. Tonight it started pouring.
New blooms: hawthorne. The answer to the quiz is five. Five flowers: grape hyacinth, may apple, yellow lamiun, lily-of-the-valley and azalea. They’re all there.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Lawns
5-9-06 SHORT HILLS: I did a bit more trimming and pruning [T&P], gave more HollyTone to shrubs with a peaked look, used MiracleGro on some pale and tired azaleas, and weeded more garlic mustard. I think its all gone for the moment.
Grass is actually filling in and flowering and all the weeds are popping up in the lawn: plantain, strawberry, gill-over-ground, dandelion, onion grass, moss and whatever, anything that survives mowing. These are the mark of a no herbicide lawn. A healthy lawn. Our neighborhood is full of lawns without a single weed. It takes toxic chemicals to do that. They probably kill earthworms, beneficial insects and perhaps injure dogs and cats. The pets live closer to the ground than we do and sniff in anything on the grass. Do they effect humans? I lime and water the lawn and occasionally fertilize, but never use pesticides or herbicides. I think it makes for a much more interesting ground cover than all that perfect grass. My motto: Perfection eschewed always.
Grass is actually filling in and flowering and all the weeds are popping up in the lawn: plantain, strawberry, gill-over-ground, dandelion, onion grass, moss and whatever, anything that survives mowing. These are the mark of a no herbicide lawn. A healthy lawn. Our neighborhood is full of lawns without a single weed. It takes toxic chemicals to do that. They probably kill earthworms, beneficial insects and perhaps injure dogs and cats. The pets live closer to the ground than we do and sniff in anything on the grass. Do they effect humans? I lime and water the lawn and occasionally fertilize, but never use pesticides or herbicides. I think it makes for a much more interesting ground cover than all that perfect grass. My motto: Perfection eschewed always.
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Travel Day
5-7-06 SHORT HILLS: It was a easy trip down. Before we left, i watered the new plantings.
New Blooms: VT-elderberry. SH-wood hyacinth, more viburnum, burning bush, bridal wreath and jack-in-the-pulpit.
Pix: The shot with all the green has five small flowers, how many can you find? Answer-maybe tomorrow. Also, wild ginger flower and pulmonaria.
New Blooms: VT-elderberry. SH-wood hyacinth, more viburnum, burning bush, bridal wreath and jack-in-the-pulpit.
Pix: The shot with all the green has five small flowers, how many can you find? Answer-maybe tomorrow. Also, wild ginger flower and pulmonaria.
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Is it too soon to say, "How 'bout those Mets"?
5-6-06 VERMONT: Overcast today and rain is threatened. I planted two clematis in the small bed on the north side of the deck [BBDN], Clematis Anna Louise ‘Evithree’, red and purple flowers and Clematis ‘Ramona’, lavender flowers. There was a big garter snake sunning on a wall. We scared each other. Short Hills tomorrow.
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