While not gardening per se, I've been working on a few things in the wildflower meadow. I wanted to build a little memorial for our dogs with a bench to sit on nearby. My parents insisted on buying the bench, which has been in place for a couple of weeks ( you can see the growth difference ). Then it was a matter of me having the time, good weather, and mental fortitude to do it. Losing Cooper broke me, so there was some catharsis involved here:
Wife says Arabian Nights dahlia. She's the one that ordered them, I just put them in the ground where she wants them, and try to make sure they don't die.
A couple shots from the garden so far: Rhubarb always starts to look like shit this time of year. My dad told me that the original root stock for those plants is over 100 years old and the old timers up here who have rhubarb, have got it from that same stock. The grape plant is a new experiment using a cutting my brother took from the plants of the old man we used to live next door where my brother lives now. Thats also where those rhubarb plants came from. I need to finish filling in the bed that the pumpkins are in. I've got the topsoil, it's just been too damned hot to do it.
Looks great, but I hate you. My garden is DOA this year due to such shitty weather and lack of work on my part. You're great motivation for next year though.
Your weather and ours hasn't been too different if I'm thinking of your location correctly. I've had to replant stuff, put in new seeds, so don't hate me too much. And in fairness, it would look like absolute shit in a few weeks if I was working this summer. I wish I'd taken pics of last year's garden, it was a complete shit show and produced very little.