The garden is a a great place to spend time with your pets, but there ARE a few things to watch out for in order to keep your pet happy and healthy. In an online article at Pawnation.com, there were several things to watch out for, with regards to your pet’s safety. Some flowers and even some bulbs can be poisonous. Pawnation reports that tulips, hyacinths and daffodil bulbs can damage a dog's mouth and esophagus, causing drooling, vomiting, severe diarrhea or even abnormal heart rhythms, depending on the amount consumed. So if you’re pet’s a digger, keep them away from those areas and places inside where you are storing bulbs to be planted in the Fall. And there are some leaves from certain lilies, like the day, Asiatic and Japanese varieties, that can cause severe kidney failure in cats. Just one or two leaves could kill them.

As for ...

Last week as I  was working in my garden, my neighbor came out of her

house and said, “I was afraid I had missed them this year!” She was talking

about one of my Iris gardens, which faces her back yard. As it turns out, she

thought maybe the hard rains had destroyed the flowers but in fact, they had
not even bloomed yet. “I look forward to seeing them every year,” she said. I

told her I'm glad she enjoys them as much as I do and she should think of them

as her garden, too.

 

It always makes me feel good when people compliment me on  my flowers. I love that they bring joy to others, even on a cloudy day.

 

As a child there were Irises flowering on both sides of our front steps, which led from the street right up to our yard. My mom and dad called them "Flags", ...

If there was one good thing about all that snow (and I do mean ONE good thing!) it is that it added lots of moisture to the soil.

The shrubs that were lucky enough to survive the weight of all that snow are
thriving. So last week I started the arduous but rewarding task of re-shaping them. They look so much happier...as am I! 


Topiaries are tedious to trim the first time around, but I keep an eye out for
stray leaves and tips and when I see them, a quick snip with a scissors or clippers keeps them looking neat.


I always wait for blooming shrubs to finish before giving them a good trimming.
I have a hot pink Honeysuckle shrub out back that needs a “haircut” but right now I am enjoying the beautiful blossoms. I made the mistake of letting it grow too high and wild initially ...

If we could just get a weekend without RAIN and social obligations, we
could power wash our deck and apply the sealer to it! It’s always best to do this project on a DRY deck with no rain in sight for a day or two. You don’t want to seal in any moisture.

While we’re waiting (and waiting) to do that project, the rain’s made the
grass green and the flowers grow. Last year’s new Peony did NOTHING.
It’s thriving in it’s new location and I can’t wait to see its dark pink blooms.

Some other perennials, which I just planted THIS year are additional colors
of Phlox on our front slope and Coral Bells with variegated green and white
foliage. I think they are sweet, but my hubby likes BIG flowers as opposed
to dainty ones. Oh well, we have some of each.

 

I sprayed the Coral Bells, ...

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