We're just a few days away from the official start of Summer. The gardens here are in full swing with late Spring and early Summer blooms at their peak.
This is the west side of our house. The prolific white flowers are a naturalizing daisy that we got from a friend of Alycia's. These daisies have been more than happy to self-seed and fill in the empty spaces. They honestly spread a little too aggressively, but they're pretty easy to thin out or pull completely in the spaces that we don't want them, and the little white flowers with yellow centers are very cheery.
The Grand Forks Garden Tour is this weekend, and Alycia and I were looking forward to a leisurely and casual tour of some of the gardens in town.
Until we found out that not one, but two of our neighbors are stops on the garden tour. We had to spring into action and get the homestead ready for passersby who would be checking out our flowers on the way to the official garden tour stop just down the block. This is the front of the house, hostas surrounded by different salvias.
There was literally only one days warning. We read on Friday in our local paper about the Garden Tour and almost jumped out of our chairs when we noticed that two participants' names were our neighbors. Anybody who was somebody in the local gardening scene might be walking by, we had to make everything look its best. The pots and plantings on our front step look ready for random people to admire as they pass by.
I stopped by the neighbors house and (after giving her a whole bunch of grief about not warning us sooner) asked if she needed any help. It should be a busy weekend in our little neighborhood - along with the garden walk is a Historical Society Tour and a 12 hour marathon Relay for Life in the park. Good thing we got our gardens ready!
Until we found out that not one, but two of our neighbors are stops on the garden tour. We had to spring into action and get the homestead ready for passersby who would be checking out our flowers on the way to the official garden tour stop just down the block. This is the front of the house, hostas surrounded by different salvias.
2 comments:
Don't we know all about garden panic here at Garden Panic Central! I know the feeling all too well. Your garden looks gorgeous, I'm surprised you weren't included on the tour!
If anybody would understand, I'm sure it's you and Carl. You let an incredible number of people tour your gardens!
We're still a couple of years away from being "ready" for the Garden Tour. There are too many things that need some fixing and changing.
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