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Quick post today,Remember when I said, I never uncover my flower beds early? In fact I have had a war with perennials, piling leaves on them, and then having them poke their naked selves out anyway.
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| Midwest Gardening April 15, 2020 |
This photo is Saturday, our last cool but nice day. I took some quick photos just to document Easter.
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| Midwest Gardening: April 15,2020 |
A few of the garden ornaments were placed out. The leaves keep blowing away. We transplanted a few herbs, and some day lilies.
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| Midwest Gardening: April 15, 2020 |
This is all I did in the front of the yard for Easter, I guess my heart wasn't in decorating. And, these are hardly thoughtfully designed. We have so much wind here, planting an entire bush is the only way to go. Hubby removed the bench that was here, and put up a shelf. We need to repaint the front (southern exposure) of the garage this Spring.
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| Midwest Gardening:April 15,2020 |
Our front porch tin pail has some faux forsythia in it for color, and our sparkly bunny sits in my wreath from last year...the pillows have faded to a nice spring shade. I have covers ready for later. This porch is so sunny and always windy.
THEN, after freezing temperatures for three nights we woke up to SNOW! 1-3inches across Chicagoland, the ground was white everywhere, this photo was taken at 11:30 am, after 4 hours of sunshine.
Fifty-four cars piled up on the Kennedy this morning at 5:45 this morning due to heavy snow falling and unseen black ice. Many cars were totaled, it look like a bumper cars gone wrong...luckily no one was seriously injured.
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| Midwest Gardening: April 15, 2020 |
THIS IS WHY...YOU DON'T REMOVE FLOWER BED DEBRIS IN THE UPPER MIDWEST!
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| Midwest Gardening: April 15, 2020 |
Honestly...you can't rule out having freezing temps, it is 32 at noon with a 25 degree windchill. UGH! The greenhouse was 44 degrees at 6 am. Thats with full 1500 watts going at high. At 12:30 pm today it is hovering at 70, with the heater going. I think wind is a big factor, we realize we still have leaks.
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| Midwest Gardening: April 15, 2020 |
Back to our vigorous perennials, I know I mounded these up on Monday---our Hollyhocks, some daylilies, and something else. to the right. Hopefully the leaves helped a little. But they grew more and pushed them off. I wonder how many bees and helpful insects are burrowed under all that?
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| Midwest Gardening: April 15, 2020 |
Day Lilies are pretty tough, the Daffodils to the right haven't bloomed yet.
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| Midwest Gardening: April 15, 2020 |
Just for FUN, we have one bird feeder on the front porch, and the birds throw seed everywhere, but we enjoy watching them. Squirrels aren't shy here, at all... I rapped on the window to get him to turn around.
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| Midwest Gardening: April 15, 2020 |
He was too busy visiting my sisal squirrel, which apparently likes to pop out of the tub of faux flowers. Or maybe he is feasting on the seeds, too.
LOL, Happy Spring?!
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