Garden Trauma.

9-16-17 SHORT HILLS: I have been busy clearing the foundation plants away from the foundation to allow the painters access to the shingles for sanding and then priming and painting. I think it’s better to do a controlled trimming then letting them just trample the shrubs, but by the time they make four trips around the house, everything will be a mess.

 Hopefully the plants will recover with a good growing season. I also pulled up the fences that keep the dogs out of the beds. They were entangled with the ground covers, ivy and pachysandra and lamium. I would almost rather let the house paint just peel away than do all this trauma to the gardens.

 I saw ‘Mother’ last night, Judy didn’t want to go. It’s a mash up of bible stories set in the present and mixed together with quite dramatic crowd scenes and riots. Jennifer Lawrence does an Oscar-worthy job. The other principals were all excellent as well.

 Tomorrow we go to Iceland.

 New blooms: abelia.


The roses keep coming out.

The other crape myrtle, this one's in red and flanked by two smaller crape myrtles planted last fall. The fences are to keep the dogs from digging up the the soft dirt and to keep the lawn mowers from over zealous trimming.