Painting and Yardwork in 92 degree heat
Wow, today was a scorcher once again, it’s been pretty warm out lately but that didn’t stop work from proceeding on painting the house and doing some yard work. Fridays are half day for me and it feels like we worked all day on some of these projects. We’ve been slowly scraping and priming the […]
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Tags: ants, house, painting, planter, Planting Beds
Some New Flowers Popped Up – They are Platycodon Grandiflorus
Some new flowers have popped up in the yard, they’re pretty neat looking and purplish in color with dark bluish veins through the petals. The flower has 5 points and the petals are all one piece, not individual petals. The middle of the flower is white with a blue bulb at the tip. I managed […]
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Budding Plant with Ants Identified
I did a bit more searching to find out what the plant in the below picture is as I have a couple of them in the front planter. According to the info I could find they are called Peonies and the ants just like the sugar and stuff that comes off the buds. I’m not […]
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Cleaning out Flower Beds
The planting beds were in serious need of help. They had both been overgrown with weeds, moss and other things. We raked them both out and picked out rocks, etc. They will probably need to be weeded in a week or two though since you never get everything with just a rake. The narrow and […]
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Tags: Herbs, Interlocking Bricks, Moss, Planting Beds, Rake, Veggies, Weeds