The full garden reno is all done 🙂
It turned out way better than I even imagined, and yet … it is a very different look than before. Intentionally.
Since I last blogged, the Bend got one major addition – the very large daylily stand in the center back of the picture above. It was the daylily stand that bloomed and bloomed for the days my Mom was in the hospital, and it continued to bloom through last week. I actually thought last weekend that it was going to form a pod. It held onto that last spent bloom for 3 days. If it had formed a pod, it would have been on the last daylily bloom of the season for the whole garden. But it did not, and that probably was a good thing. I’m not sure we have enough season left to mature a daylily pod.
With that last bloom shed I went ahead and moved the entire clump. It is now the centerpiece of that area.
Once I got to Sandy’s Corner my plan changed daily, but for the better. I now have something I can imagine working with quite easily for the next 10 years.
The hostas have a greater presence again, and yet, the daylilies still have plenty of space.
And the specific corner Sandy used to sit in has been cleared for 2027s daylily seedlings. Potentially there will be four varieties. Yah, one from my work survived. The pollinators have three 😉
I am working on that birdbath, but it may go. I am on a garden doodad removal kick. A few months ago, I got rid of the clematis and trellises out back. With Sandy’s Corner and the bend, I got rid of the hanging bird bath on the short shepherd’s hook, and, after more than a decade I also removed the double shepherd’s hook with the hummingbird feeder. I was tired of cleaning the hanging bird bath, and we have another hummingbird feeder out front that is the one the hummingbirds prefer. Out back they most often choose the blooming flowers.
Out front I moved a hosta out of the entryway corner (to the back) and in its place, I moved in a Chocolate Drop Sedum that was long overdue for division.
It should begin to fill out that corner nicely.
And then at the historic cemetery I planted all of the seedlings I had grown this summer from seed I harvested there last fall.
And, on the one-month anniversary of my Mom’s passing, I donated and planted three fans of historic daylily Autumn Red from my garden to the historic cemetery garden. The Autumn Red daylily variety was registered 85 years ago, the same year my Mother was born. It was a special, dedicated trip over for me, and a special moment of planting. That planting is now the oldest registered daylily variety in the garden there, and it matches a huge stand of Autumn Red daylilies we found between some oak trees on the perimeter of the property this summer. Very special all around.
It is a pivotal year. In many ways it has been a very tough year. And yet … we move forward. God still has work for us to do, and that we shall, according to His will.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend and that you are truly Blessed!
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