Sunday, May 10, 2015

The Marvelous Garden Wasn't Built In a Day

Marvelous Garden 2.0 is in its nascent stage. Like Augustus with Rome, I have found an overgrown yard but will leave behind a garden of marvelousness. 

My back yard is quite overgrown, and most of my early efforts have been devoted to Paul Bunyan-like tree felling. At last, I have largely cleared one side, as seen below.




Where before there were 5 or 6 cedar trees and numerous weeds and vines, now there is a clear area, save for a few stumps that are not long for this world.


The view from the newly cleared area looking back toward the Residence of Reilly.


The lone tree I plan to spare back here is this gloriously large Rhododendron at right.



The view of the new clearing from behind the Rhododendron.


The stately lilacs that line the east side of my property line.


My front entrance in the very early stages of its inevitable marvelosity.


A superb hydrangea I just added to the front yard.


Sunday, April 5, 2015

2.0

It begiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnsssssssssss!





Sunday, May 18, 2014

Surely Something Marvelous Is At Hand

What marvelous beast slouches toward Bethlehem? Why it is this colossus, my spectacular climbing hydrangea. 








Wednesday, June 5, 2013

It May Be We Shall Touch the Marvelous Garden

Like Tennyson's Ulysses, I too will be able to one day claim to have strode with gods; but in this case, the gods will have been the mighty plants in the Marvelous Garden. Come my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a more Marvelous Garden
















My friends, now you too can claim to have known the mighty Achilles. Behold, the hero in his full splendor.