Been busy outside!

I just have a bunch of pictures and explanations today! Hopefully all the beds will have mulch very soon.

This first picture is where my jelly melon bed.  The trellis is for the jelly melons and in front of them I have alyssums and off to the right a purslane. Also, the rain gauge.

Next, my around the tree bed.  Dusty miller, grape punch petunia, Lemon slice Calibrochoa, some awesome smelling bush I can't remember the name of, peppermint, another yellow purslane....and on the other side, candytuft, dusty miller, komachi balloon flowers

My ketchup and mustard rose.  I potted it and then put it into the ground because we have moles floating around and I don't want the roots to get eaten :(

Spinach on the left (not doing well), beets in the right.

The rest of that bed- Asiatic lilies, Citrus Blend Lantanas, my blue fringe daisy and the japanese barberry bush that is like a chameleon throughout the seasons.

hops!

radishes and carrots (need to thin the carrots some more)

peppers and tomatoes and sweet gherkins

peppers and tomatoes!

peppers and tomatoes!

and more peppers.  All this will move onto the deck when I finally get a chance to finish staining it! If the rain could hold off long enough, I'd be able to finish it!

My husband's pond (with our new lovely coral bark japanese maple on the left)

Some petunias and bells in the pot and what I like to call "the fairy shrub".  I can't remember its name either, ha!

Getting ready for the last frost!

So in between powerwashing and sanding my deck...I've been trying to get a few things planted.  Crossing my fingers we're done with snow. It's APRIL.  

My daughter got this plant (mum?) from her friend for her birthday.  It sneakily hid next to my media tower and by the time I remembered it was there, it was drying up fast.  So in the ground it goes with a salute and a "may the force be with you". 

My new grow bag finally arrived (cat confiscated the other one).  So in went the radishes!  Watermelon and Crimson Giant.

Rosemary stopped its fussiness.  Doing fantastic now.

Here's my big "oops" in the gardening world for the week.  It was doing so much better than when I bought it.  And then...the table got moved out from under the eave for my daughter's birthday party...and it got snowed on.  Six inches of snowed on. Whoops. Holding out hope...maybe? I can't bring myself to trash it.

And the spinach came outside finally!