May Garden Report

Petunias. I love this color combo.

Well, Miss J was off to South Carolina, helping with grandbabies last week. While she was away, I worked like a demon in the garden. As a result, I am now to the part of the gardening year where I describe our state as being, "almost finished." Almost finished is some kind of weird gardening calculus where you get closer and closer but never actually finish. My list of "to-dos" includes:

• Feed the roses (we have 9 bushes)
• Move a day lily
• Buy and plant 1 or 2 tree peonies (depends on if I can convince J that we really need 2!)
• Plant some small black-eyed Susans so I have more flowers in the fall
• Weed
• Cut back the spent tulips
• Tie up the spent daffodils
• Plan 30 little zinnias that will grow to 30"
• Buy and plant some smaller zinnias
• Move the birdbath
• Unwrap and set up the fountain
• Buy and install 8 -12 bags of mulch
• Deliver the bachelor's  buttons I dug out to our neighbor

And that's just this week's list!