This weekend, though, was perfect. I flew home to the most beautiful weather. It’s like Seattle sensed my need to be happy, enjoying perfect outside-in-the-yard-digging-in-the-dirt sunshine. The best thing about this kind of weather is that we finally have a yard to dig around in, plant in, and grow amazing things in. The juniper is gone, the soil has been revitalized, and I'm ready to get my garden on!
This gardening thing is not cheap though. Fortunately, we started out with a lot of stuff already on the property. We had Juniper (which we’ve removed), three cherry trees, an enormous rhododenron, a lilac bush, three beautiful rose bushes, rhubarb, and bulbs covering the entire property (tulips, daffodils, bluebells, lily of the valley, a ton of iris, and many more I don’t even know the name of - including an amazing lily-like flower that blooms in the fall and smells like cotton candy!) On top of all of this, we’ve been given two baby japanese maples, a magnolia tree (it's finally blossoming!), a rose bush, day lilies, crocosmia, peonies, and a juneberry tree.
It seems like a lot, but there is so much empty dirt from where the juniper used to reside that most of the yard feels naked. So a few weekends ago hubby and I hit Sky Nursery for some essentials. Sky is one of the bigger garden stores in the area and apparently they’ve just completed a massive addition and remodel. The place is HUGE. If you’ve got a yard and need stuff to fill it, this is where you need to shop. The most exciting additions to the yard were a blueberry bush (below), a fig tree, and two kiwi plants (one male and one female - because you have to have a male to polinate and the girlfriend produces the fruit). I am very excited about the fig tree - but think the kiwi is the coolest new addition. Apparently they do very well in the northwest!
I spent a good amount of the weekend finding homes for our newly purchased plants and moving some stuff around. We also started some seeds for the soon-to-be garden boxes which hubby will be designing/building in the next few weeks.
Last, but certainly, not least...today is the one-year anniversary of moving into our little fixer-upper. I can hardly believe that one whole year has already flown by.
Last, but certainly, not least...today is the one-year anniversary of moving into our little fixer-upper. I can hardly believe that one whole year has already flown by.
Our 'Best of 2009' posting listed pretty much everything we've done so far on the house. But the 'to do' list never ends.The big things for 2010:
- Finish basement, add bathroom
- Remodel upstairs bathroom
- Paint exterior
- Plant a garden
In the meantime, I'll do my best to juggle work with posting and house projects!
2 comments:
Hey, I think I've heard something about blueberry plants needing a mate too...male female pollination kind of thing. if they kiwi's get to "do it" why cant the blueberries get a little "fruity" too? :)
Ok, so I have to be the worst friend/realtor in the world! I have thought of you guys every day since the end of February, knowing that it was your 1 year anniversary. I have meant to email, call, send a card, all of the above and have done none. Congratulations on being in the house a year!! From the pictures the house and yard look amazing and I can't wait to see it in person. Let me know when work settles down a bit and we would love to come by for a visit. My email has changed, so please use kris.bulson@gmail.com or call me!! Hope you can forgive me for not calling!! Congratulations again!!!
Kris
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