I have just returned from eating dinner on the back deck, cooked on the new barbecue. (Thank you, whoever left the brochettes in the fridge; they were delightful.)
HRH spent the early part of the afternoon overhauling the gardens, because it was such a beautiful day. The mass of hostas that were growing along the side fence have been transplanted to various spots around the house. We took a trip out to price lumber and lattice to build the new side fence, and then to the nursery to buy our first set of plants. I now have rosebushes, lavender, and other herbs in the back corner. The huge creeping vine is gone from the back porch as well, as the trunk was beginning to split the floorboards. I think we’ll plant a clematis or two down below to replace it, to wind up the deck and along the side fence.
It’s beginning to feel somewhat like summer. It will feel more like summer once we’ve put in flats and flats of flowers, but we’re not going to do that until we’re certain the overnight temperature won’t dip close to the zero mark. I’m not tempting Nature like that, not when it’s done it twice in the past five years before Victoria Day.
Actually, we were halfway home before we remembered about those brochettes, but we were too tired/lazy to go back and fetch them. . . Glad you enjoyed them. I don’t know why we thought we could eat two brochettes each, on top of all that yummy food folks brought!
Thanks for yout marvelous cooking, Ron!
*jealous*
I won’t have a spare minute to begin to sort out the garden until I get back from the honeymoon, and by then it will be a completely un-managable jungle. Oh well, there’s always next year.
Mmm…herbs.
I’m SO looking forward to starting my little deck garden later this month…
I just sort of cheated and bought a hanging box of already-planted, thriving herbs like basil, oregano, chives, etc at Atwater Market. Pretty good deal, too: You get an oblong flower box (including brackets for hanging), complete with five types of herbs, for sixteen bucks, tax included. (Well, it seems like a pretty good deal to someone like me who kills everything she tries to plant from scratch!)
At least the garden will be a green jungle, Jan… and you can have the fun of hunting what vegetables may have reseeded themselves and come back!
Reseeded – yes, maybe… I’ll have to have a good squint at where the spinach and broccoli bolted and went to seed early last summer. And it’s a testament to how mild our winter was that some of the parsley actually survived and over-wintered!
Y’all are crazy. Except maybe for Paze.
Decks. Decks are the only thing a back yard is good for. Deck the whole thing, or put in a Japanese sand-and-rock-and-trickling water garden. No fuss, no muss, no lawn mowing.
Blech.