More tulips

These just came up this past week:

Starting seeds

I have a bunch of old flower seeds, so I thought, what the heck, let's see if there is still life in them.

First box of starter pots contains:

Delphiniums, 8 Asters, 8 Nasturtiums,

Second box contains

4 pumpkins for pies, 8 moon flowers,  8 Larkspur
4 vista melons

Why do I write this down?  Because in the hour of planting them, I forgot what I had planted and had to go check to write it down.

Misc

I bought a Harry Lauder Walking Stick tree.  I can't wait to get it planted.  I'm going to put it in a bed with a flaming bush shrub and some korean feather grass. 

Wild strawberries in the gully are in bloom!

Hostas are coming up nicely.

Last year I subdivided my hostas.  I'm pleased to see they are coming up nicely.  Here is the giant one.

Tulips

The recent cool weather has been nice for the tulips.  They've stayed beautiful for longer than usual.
However, the wind damaged a couple, so I picked them and brought them in.

Progress on the garden makeover of 2013

Garlic Patch
 

Beds 1 and 2.  Adding trellising

Beds 3 and 4...still need tresllising

Beds 5 and 6.  5 still isn't weeded and built yet.

Herb Garden.  Back triangle ready for dirt and planting.

Flower Pat and Don gave me....moved it to the garden.

Planted a clematis at its base.

Overall view of main garden area.  I will put in a second tier below it, but want to get the first tier done completely before tackling the next one.

Still left to do

weed remaining 4x4 bed, fill with dirt.
finish pathways in garden....have made progress, but still not totally finished.

put up remaining trellises - 1 fully up, 1 partial, five more to do

put in irrigation system - 1/3 way done

build and plant three potato towers...one built, two remain

buy 36 more bags of dirt ...bought 15 bags not sure how many more I actually need

buy more cedar bark and use wood chips from pile
buy 12 more 16 ft cedar boards...not needed
cut the boards for the herb garden boxes...DONE

plant walking stick tree and korean grass and flaming bush

rent trencher and bury irrigation lines - did by hand with David's help

grass seed to reseed trench lines - Not Needed

put in spiral and plants around lilac tree

turn compost

mow and mulch south end of garden (take stuff from front walkway)
fix chainlink fence in corner

move rocks from old blueberry patch (Partially done)

buy new blueberry plants and plant  

build second tier of garden

remove old walkway
level old walkway, trench along edges
plant lavender along walkway - Two-thirds of lavender bed is cleared.

plant lavender in pots until ready for ground DONE