Apparently I've become an old man before my time, because I've become obsessed with gardening around my townhouse in Glastonbury, CT. When I moved into this place in April 2006, the backyard to my building was a pile of dirt. Since that time, I've done a lot of work incrementally improving the backyard into something presentable - and as I've done so, I've inexorably become obsessed with my plants. This year, as part of my growing obsession, I decided to start taking pictures of my plantations in order to document their progress. Having taken these pictures, I now find that it isn't enough to have them, but that I want to use them to create some kind of journal. Viola, this blog is born, seeing that a blog is the most sensible format for creating a multimedia journal.
So without further ado, here is my first set of pictures. I took these back on April 11th when my plants were just beginning to emerge.
This bad boy here is my climbing hydrangea plant. Back when I had no clue what I was doing, I bought this plant for my mom's house for the north side where she doesn't get much sun. It didn't do anything for a couple of years, so I transplanted it here in the hopes that it would do better (little did I know at the time that climbing hydrangeas don't do anything the first couple of years they are in the ground). The plant is thriving in my place and I look forward to training it to grow along the lattice at the top of my fence.
Next to the hydrangea you can also see some shasta daisies that I planted last year.
This is my bleeding heart plant (technically, I guess, it belongs to my fiance Kathy since she picked it out) it grows in a shady bed in the corner and is actually the perfect plant for that spot since I don't think anything else would survive with so little sun.
This is an astilbe that I got for a few bucks at Ocean State Job Lot this year. I planted it on the north side of my place in a spot that only gets a few hours of sun a day). I had a azelea there, since they are supposed to be good in the shade too, but it was doing pretty poorly so I transplanted it. I'm really looking forward to seeing what color this astilbe winds up being. I hope its a white one because I already have red and pink in other places.
One last picture for the day. This is a chive plant that I've had for about 6 years - it was the first plant I ever put any effort in to growing. This is the third container I've had the plant in, each bigger than the last. It's a spectacular plant that taste's superb and continues to do well year after year. I'm absurdly emotionally invested in this plant. We have an annual Super Bowl party at my place, and one year I almost strangled someone when I saw them putting their cigarette butt out in the pot.
I took a new set of picture showing more of my yard yesterday, I'll try and get them up in the next few day. Until then I'll be staying marvelous, you try and do the same.
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