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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Cottage Garden Update and A Project!


Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!
I am so happy you decided to stop by!!

In my last post, I shared a few colorful projects that I did to brighten up our back yard Cottage Garden and Patio.......

I repainted a sign......
 I spray painted a few solar lights that had called it quits making them into colorful Garden Globes
 And threw together a few floral arrangements for the Patio.....
 Click HERE if you missed this post......

Today, I thought I would show you how my little Cottage Garden is growing since it is almost August......

And also show you a project that Joe and I did on Saturday and we didn't kill each other!!!

But first, I want to Thank Kristie, over at Love My Little Cottage, for featuring my post, A Simple Act of Kindness and New Rugs, as one of the Most Clicked On Features from last week's Little Cottage Link Party!!!
Thanks so much, Kristie!!!

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My perennials are doing okay but my annuals have really taken off even though I got such a late start planting them......
The wave petunias in the coal bucket on the table seem to be suffering a bit with the 90 degree heat we have been having even though I do water them daily and we have had quite a lot of rain......
 I think they need a dose of Miracle Gro......

The begonias in these 2 pots are looking okay.....
The impatiens are really doing well......
Same thing with this pot of impatiens......
Begonias in the pot on the milk can......
And these impatiens look a bit ragged, I must admit......

The middle section of the garden between the 2 walkways.......
Again, the impatiens are really doing well here!!!
The sedum planted in front of the bistro chair planter are really growing fast this year.....
Again, the begonias look hardy.....
This former fountain turned bird bath turned planter was an experiment this year.......
When it cracked in the Winter, I decided to turn it into a flower planter........
I am very happy with how it looks........
Looking at it from the other side of the yard.......
Now let's take a look at some of the pots on the patio......
Again, I did not go crazy with different kinds of flowers this year because of my surgery and the late start I got with planting my annuals........
But the impatiens definitely do well in my back yard and patio........
Don't you think??????
Okay, so that completes my end of July tour of our back yard Cottage Garden.......

On Saturday, Joe decided to do a project........

This is our lilac tree which I planted outside the fence.......
It was a small slip that my MIL dug out of her neighbor's yard and I planted it outside the fence because I did not want it to take up the whole yard as it grew......

In case you are wondering, it is planted on our property as we own 1 foot past our fence.......

You can see though that this branch is pushing against the fence and it is pushing the fence in......
So Joe got out the lopper and planned his attack.......
As you can see he decided to cut as many of the smaller branches off the Tree as he could and then he cut them into smaller pieces that I could bag them up.....

Yep!! I had to get in on the action too........I love me a good lopper......
Now, can I tell you that the temps. reached almost 90 on Saturday.......

When Joe put on the googles, they fogged up and he couldn't see a darn thing!!!!!
"I can't see anything"!!!!

Can you tell how hot it was by how he looks??????
Now he attacked it with a saw.......
When he got up on that step stool, I prayed he would not fall off it and break his neck!!!!!

Now, he is working on the last piece of the branch.....
Success!!!!
"I did it"!!!!
Of course, after he removed that branch, we noticed that another one was growing into the arborvitaes.....

So we cut that one down too.......

And this is how it looks minus those big branches.....
It does let more sunlight shine on the back of the yard.......
I usually say that if you want your marriage to end in divorce, do a home improvement project together....

Usually we fight like cats and dogs when we do a project together because I am a Carpenter's daughter and Joe is definitely NOT the son of a carpenter......

But we did well and actually laughed a lot......

It might have been because we both where ready to pass out from the heat and humidity.......

Soon I will be back with an update on how my flowers in the front of our house are growing.......

 So I hope you will stop by to visit again soon!!

Thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!

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