Snake Shapes

Pleasant, in the low 60s today.  Nice in the morning, overcast in the afternoon with a chill wind.  Another good cool day for hard work cutting gardens.

The 'Okame' cherry is thinking about blooming. . . .  thinking, considering, maybe, might do.  It still hasn't burst into full bloom yet, but some pretty pink blossoms have opened.  The 'Lynwood' forsythia out by the road has burst into bloom, though.

We got over two inches of rain yesterday.  The rosemary in the big bowl had several inches of standing water in it --- fatal for any plant, but particularly for rosemary, which wants dry soil.  The holes at the bottom had become completely blocked by thick roots.  I tipped the bowl, used sticks to ream out the holes, and drained the pot.  No easy task; that's a heavy bowl, especially with water in it.

We finished cutting the new garden on the west side, but the shape is a little too snake-like.   I want to widen the very left most side, to accommodate a largish Pagoda dogwood, and I want to make the curve curvier to the inside on the right.

More work to do.  Jim did a fantastic job adding soil from the Envirocycle pile to this garden.

Refilled the hummer feeders today.