DEBBIE-DABBLE BLOG: Mid June Front Yard Update & One More Landscape Project, 2026

I am a Victorian Soul, who lives in a small townhouse that was built in the mid 1970's, not a huge Mega Mansion!! I just recently lost my Hubby Joe, who was a Retired Letter Carrier. I worked night shift as an RN on a Hospital based Rehabilitation( Physical Medicine) Unit for 37 years before I had Knee Replacement Surgery and officially Retired in 2019 after 41 years working in Direct Patient Care ... I am so glad that we retired at 62 years of age and got to spend that time together before he passed....I still do love Retirement!!!!

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Thursday, June 18, 2026

Mid June Front Yard Update & One More Landscape Project, 2026

Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

I am so happy you decided to stop by!!

Blogging has always been a stress reliever for me along with an avenue to share my passions which are my home and my garden.....

I feel it is a personal Journal that, hopefully, someday, my Twin Granddaughters will be able to look back on to learn about who I was....

I will be posting 3 times a week on MONDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS....

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In my last post, I shared the final part of my Kitchen decorated for early Summer in a Hans, Roos and Bees theme....

Click HERE if you missed that post!!

And now for a few Personal Notes...

For the New Year, I am trying something different with my 3 times weekly posts....

On THURSDAYS, I will feature what I cooked and ate during the week, showcasing local cuisine and a few recipes for things that I actually made...

I decided that on SATURDAYS, I will showcase What I Have Been Up To in the past week, sharing events and places I went to, if any....

On MONDAYS, I will be featuring What I Have Bought or Been Gifted Recently, if anything...

I do have some food to share this THURSDAY.......

I have not had Chinese food in ages ever since the one place my son Joey used to get it for us closed.....

Last Friday, Joey ordered from a local place, Tang's Asian Cuisine

He does not like veggies and I am unable to eat them because of my IBS so we both got Chicken Lo Mien without veggies....

Along with a bowl of chicken rice soup.....

Both were delicious so we will definitely be ordering from them again.....

I also made an old stand by, what I call Barna Balls....

This is a combination of oven porcupines, which is essentially Polish Piggies without the cabbage, and stuffed peppers without the peppers....

I can not eat too much cabbage or peppers.....

We had several days of nice cooler temps. with low's in the high 40's and high's in the low 70's so I took advantage and did some needed yard work....

I did a bit of weeding......

I also trimmed the bejesus out of the forsythia as I think it doubled in size......

I also freshened up the mulch with 2 new bags that I bought.....

There is the pot I bought for my solar fountain, which I see I need to fill with more water....

I then attacked my slope and my next door neighbor's slope.....

I cut back some weeds that I was able to kill off with weed killer , using my loper....

And raked them down the slope....

I also cut back some of the bonfire spurge, which keeps reseeding, that was growing almost right on top of the retaining wall........

You can see how the forsythia looks from the parking lot in front of my row of townhouses....

I also cut back some of the bonfire spurge in my neighbor's yard that was hanging over the wall......

And trimmed the barberry, which had gotten quite out of control.....

Next, I FINALLY got to do a bit of work on the flower bed that I created by my Court's entrance and mail boxes.....

It seemed all the dead dried leaves from the trees on the side of our road blew into this flower bed during the Winter and I just did not get a chance to clean them up....

After 2 years since I last worked on this flower bed, the Missouri Primrose spread with reckless abandon, trapping all those leaves in the flower bed....

I attempted to use my blower to get them out but to no avail.....

I did manage to rake 2 huge garbage bags of leaves out of this bed......

Along with pulling some weeds and cleaning up around the edges ....

I also cut back the columbine, which also reseeded itself, that had finished blooming.....

Missouri Primrose and Lamb's Ear.....

I planted this Rose of Sharon Tree when it was nothing more than a twig!!

That is a Loosestrife back there and that will soon bloom with purple flowers.....

Another Lamb's Ear.....

Looking at it when I was sitting on the bench, resting....

Once the Missouri Primrose stop blooming at the end of June, I will cut them back and hopefully, clean out more of those dried leaves....

There are also asters planted in there that will bloom in the early Fall.....

A view from our parking lot.....

I think I will forego mulching it at this point until next Spring.....

All and all, because of how it filled in, it does not look too bad and I finally was able to cross it off my Monthly To Do List!!

I will post updates as I get to work on it and more plants bloom....

And I hope you will stop by to visit again on SATURDAY for my next post!!

Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!!

And try to find JOY in every single day!

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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