…..we all have one. A dirty little secret. Mine is dirty. But it won’t be a secret much longer cuz I am sharin’ it with y’all. Here it is:
My dirty little secret
This is my holding nursery. Hahahaha! In reality, its all the stuff that hasn’t been planted or found a home. There’s a half of a flat of thyme leftover from the June photo shoot at Jeff’s. There are some $1 echinaceas from (gulp) last fall. I did pot up some of the 4 inch salvias and a couple agastaches into 1 gal. pots to give them a fighting chance. Call me benevolent why doncha?
Alrighty then. I feel better having come clean about that. I feel so much better we will move on to the next project at hand:
Here’s my front door. Can’t for the life of me get the stooopid black-eyed susan vine to bloom. Giving me a black eye as a gardener.
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Front door vignette
So, here comes the project:
Here it comes! Come to mama!
Here it is!
One palette of wonderful grade AAA gorgeous indigenous sandstone, cut from the Table Rock quarry, where they have been digging stone for over 120 years. All for me. For my new retaining wall. Hold me back, baby. It’s a good day to be indigenous. *
Favorite line from a favorite movie: Smoke Signals. Written by Sherman Alexie.
My dirty little secret isn’t as little as yours. I’m so ashamed. Your sandstone retaining wall project sounds exciting. I love real stone.
Oohh..nice! Can’t wait to see the finished product!
For shame! Before you build that retaining wall, take care of those plants. Then the retaining wall can be your reward.
Which reminds me, there are a few plants around here that are making me look “bad”, too. I need to get ‘em into shape!
I’m salivating over that stone. I love stone almost as much as I love plants because they look so beautiful together and give a sense of permanence to the garden.
Mary Ann, come see me soon, I’ll be posting our little interview in the next few weeks. I’ll give you the heads up- doing lots of editing right now.
Shirley
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