Making Progress

I was able to do nothing but play outside in the glorious sunshine for most of my four-day weekend. Hooray. While  some things got done, there are still a lot of projects to tackle.  However, when doing one thing a gardener notices that something else needs to be done and gets involved with the other thing for a while.

You may recall the Danger Gardenette looked like this on Friday.  

Now it looks like this.  A few things need to be finished but most of the plants have migrated.  The forget-me-nots growing in the spaces between the bricks will be removed once they're done blooming. 

The Danger Gardenette flows into a collection of bromeliads.  There are more of these that are houseplants but probably wouldn't mind joining their friends outside for the summer. Agave, cacti, bromeliads, and ferns all growing in the same area.  Is it too jarring?  

The other side of that gray/blue round water thingy. The brick needs to be swept.

The table and chairs have been cleared and washed.  Most of those plants have actually found places in the ground or in pots. 

Now it's time to weed between the bricks. 

Still a pot or two to plant.  The begonias stay here where I can see them during the summer.  Since there are still about 20 in the stained glass room and greenhouse, there may be a rotation.

Hey look, no sixty-pound bale of pro mix.  It's more than half gone and has been hauled to the greenhouse to pot up the tomatoes.

No stash of pots here either.  The one pot in the picture will be planted in this area. 

I'm easily distracted by Acer palmatum 'Ukigumo' whose white leaves stand out beautifully in the midst of all of the dark green in a shady area.

Having started so many begonias, I decided to throw a few in with the hostas to hide the pots. 

The pot ghetto is still, and probably will always be the pot ghetto but the pile of plastic pots has been moved, organized by size and will disappear soon .

 Green goodness. 

As this vacation draws to a close and I sit on the back porch, I'm happy to have gotten a good start on the garden and can see a lot more that needs to be done.  For instance behind those Welsh poppies is a little water catcher that needs to be saved from the encroaching plants but those sweet yellow flowers are so cheerful.  It just never ends, does it?