I’m sitting here, once again surrounded by plants, as there was a freeze warning for last night and there’s one for tonight. I contemplated attempting to use a tarp to protect the big potted plants, but ended up bringing everything in for two days. And then we’ll be done. Poor Don, lugging those heavy pots yet again. First thing tomorrow after moving plants back outside? A trip to the nursery, which I planned on making 2 1/2 weeks ago, but then all the cold weather started and I realized I couldn’t finish planting my pots/buying more potting soil until this bizarre weather pattern had ended.
I long to sit on the glider on the porch and it looks like that will happen soon. Of course, we’ll get warmer weather but we’re also getting rain, so there’s that.
We worked outside yesterday. It was windy – when isn’t it, these days? Don did a lot of trimming of brambles and cleared another space. I returned to pruning the boxwood. It really took a beating this winter and I’m not sure why. I know they’ve had ‘box blight’ in England and I sure hope it isn’t headed this way. The four boxwoods that we have in front of the house were the very first things we planted when we moved here in 2005. It was the beginning of September so I didn’t want to do anything to the garden bed, but we did create a bed in front of the house where we installed four tiny boxwoods. They’re a lot bigger now!
Very slow going. It’s a real challenge, this one. Sometimes I sit here for a few hours and work at it. Sometimes, I just stroll by and add a piece.
We watched The Third Man last night, one of our favorite movies. There was only one problem – we were so tuckered out that we kept falling asleep. I couldn’t wait to go to bed!
It’s cold out there, but beautifully sunny. Hang in there, plants – less than 24 hours to go!
Stay safe.
