Saturday morning transplants

Today finally felt like fall! Cool breezes and cloudy skies. I started my morning by "planting" tree fertilizer stakes. Trying to help out the trees as much as possible.
I also did some transplanting of more stella d'oro daylilies to the outside sidewalk bed. A total of five daylilies... and one daylily added to the central bed. I dug out some liriope and placed under the birches. I also moved a clump of oatgrass over near the new spruce tree. The was also a lupine mixed in with one daylily... i separated it and planted it near the butterfly bushes.

Fall Planting & transplanting

This evening the weather felt cool and the clouds moved in. The breezes helped to motivate me to plant the Austrian Pine that I purchased on sale. It's about 2 ft. high. Planted along the property line near the lilacs. I also transplanted two stella doro daylilies from under the birch tree to the outer sidewalk bed. I think it will be a nice compliment to the creeping phlox. I want to transplant three more stella d'oros.

Cool and Rainy- YEAH!!!

It has finally cooled off and it's raining off and on... mostly drizzle. I am so happy to finally have some fall weather. I was getting really tired of carrying bucket upon bucket of water to my new trees. Even my older trees were looking stressed from lack of water. So I'm hoping for more (a week maybe?) of this cool, wet weather.

Cooling Down...

After 21 days of at or well above normal, we are finally going to have some autumnal weather. 60s and 50 for the next week. hurray!!! And hopefully some much needed rain will arrive as well. We have had only a trace amount of rain for October so far. sigh...

Too Darn Hot...

We continue with a heat wave in October. Instead of the norms of highs in the 70s... we have highs in the high 80s... and another hot one tomorrow. I'm really concerned with out newly planted trees as well as our smaller trees (they are showing signs of stress). We have been carrying water form the rain barrels up until today. The barrels are empty and it's still hot. This evening we got out the hose for only the second time this growing season. They say that it will cool off to normal on Tuesday and then it will be cooler than normal... geesh. I just want a few weeks in the 70s.

Joseph and Spruces

Joseph and Spruces
Originally uploaded by pjslomer

TREES!!!

We have two new trees. Both of them are Colorado (blue) Spruce. They were delivered yesterday and it was well worth the extra money to have them delivered and plopped in to the holes dug prior to their arrival. Joseph and I worked for a solid two hours back filling the dirt, carrying water and carrying mulch to give these two a proper welcome. They don't block the offensive lights... yet. But in the meantime, they provide a visual block that is helpful to the psyche.