Another Mess

This is my clematis on the right side of the garage door.

A closer look and if any one knows the name of the ground cover let me know. On one of Mimi's sewing club visit to Monteagle, she was given this by her friend, Opie. So I refer to it as Opie's ground cover.

The big plant is Gopher Purge and was suppose to protect your plants from moles and gopher as the roots of the plant is suppose to put out a unpleasant taste but the hill moles have not been affected. The ground cover was behind my Mother's house so I brought back as much as I could before we sold the house.

This is a close up of some of my Money plants. Each year I have more come up as they seem to be rather hardy. Do you see the bee?

I just scattered the seeds along the ground last fall and this year I have a row of Money under the rack.

More Money by the birdbath. The tree to the right is a white dog wood and it did not bloom very well this year.

Mother's lilac bush with a beautiful butterfly. There were two but I only captured one.

This is the dianthus which is in front of the purple heart which are in front of the two knock out pink rose bushes. These are in front of the house on the right side of the sidewalk.

I do not know the name of these either as Cousin Mary Eleven gave these to each family at the First Hurt Reunion in the late nineties. I did not get to attend due to my back problems so Aunt Karen gave me hers also. Yesterday, as I was walking Maggie, I heard the buzz and looked over and a female hummingbird was getting some nectar from these red flowers.

Close up of my pink dogwood. For such a little tree, it put out lots of blooms. Mimi's bought this for me when my Bradford Pear tree was knocked over by a huge tree that blown down across the drive. If it had been any taller it would have hit the house. The top landed at the front door. But I think the pear tree saved the boxwood's.

My little tree is tiny compared to Brenda and Steve's pink dogwood. It will grow and hopefully no tree will fall on it.

This is the apple tree out back that Ken would not let me put on the previous blog. Ken has also rejected some of the pictures I wanted to put on today but I would just pick another and not give up.

Closer look at the apple blossoms. We should have lots of apples. Enough for the raccoons and deer and us

Today I again worked in the yard and then came in to do domestic chores. I have added to my plants and got a dill plant, two lemon thyme and a variegated sage. Just what I needed but they did not have any red geraniums for the planters on the porch.

Yesterday I got out the cub and mowed the front yard. Prince and Puppy usually do this but with Prince having to work all hours and Puppy taking test, I knew Kitty needed to help out so I spent most of the day cutting grass and then I cleaned the potted plants that survived my neglectful attention this winter and placed them about the yard. Still have five plants too heavy for me to move outside.

It was in the eighties today and that is a little warm however as I was outside a nice breeze would blow now and then. I was spraying weed killer on the walk ways and on that darn old Irish ivy that Aunt Byrd brought back in her hat box from Edinburgh. Don't worry I could not kill it all if I wanted too. but I did not wish for it to climb back up to the roof again. It was on the highest part of the house so it had been neglected and let run wild.

Edward plans to bring dinner out this evening and all we have to do is cook some potatoes. I can do that. We cut them into wedges, and put a little oil and our favorite seasonings in a zip lock bag put the potato in the bag to coat them good and then cook them in the oven for about thirty minutes. It is best to soak the potato wedges in ice water and drain before you coat them.

Prince gets to start on something at five PM and I see he has been at it for ten minutes. I just hope he does not have to stay until the wee hours tonight.

I will try to get our guest pictures. I am speaking of the ones who have stopped by our feeders. Yes, the Rose Breasted Grosbeak are back.

The Kitty Justice is I might have to take a vacation to get over this Spring.