
Eh bien le temps d'arriver à tout cela, avec les filles qui me tournaient autour et n'arrêtaient pas de parler, il était déjà presque midi et j'arrosais la terre de ma sueur. Et juste avant de rentrer, surprise de Laure : elle a joué avec le gravier qui servait de paillis dans une de mes potées, et elle l'a répandu alentours. Grrr...



Les campanules sont magnifiques, l'année dernière une limace a failli avoir raison de l'une d'elles et elle était restée toute rabougrie.
Pareil pour ce petit géranium qui fait sa première fleur, le binage de printemps a été fait sans tenir compte de sa présence, heureusement il n'en a pas souffert !
Et derrière la jungle de mauvaises herbes qui disparaîtra bientôt, en prolongement de la butte, j'ai ce petit massif plein sud avec des plantes costauds qui supportent la sécheresse - il faut que je finisse le paillage avec le gravier - comme ces délosperma et cette népéta. J'ai acheté 1 délosperma l'année dernière pensant que c'était annuel, et comme l'hiver n'a pas été très rigoureux et que je ne l'avais pas déterré, il a perduré. Je l'ai changé de place et j'ai tout réorganisé ; j'en ai aussi un dans un de mes murs en bacs à fleurs, et il se porte à merveille.
This is the "before" shot, with all the weeds that settled back ; but the "after" will take some time, since I started gardening with a plan this morning : have my morning walk to the fountain with my two 5-liter-bottles, put away all the stuff like empty pots that's been laying around behind the house, plant all the things still in their pots and that I keep moving around, plant out things like daisies, portula, polemonium or nasturtium that reseeded themselves before it was too hot, hoe and rake the bedding in front of the house (I'll take pics when everything is in bloom), cut out the faded sweet williams... and by the time I finished all this, it was almost noon, my sweat was dripping on the ground and the girls had been all around me all morning, talking away ; just before I went back in, I found a surprise from Laure : she had scattered all the gravel I use as mulch in one of my big pots, all around !! Grrr... Tomorrow it's exam supervision, on Friday it's English teachers' meeting, all day each time, so no gardening.
A little nap after lunch to get back on track ? With great pleasure ! I set my timer on 20 minutes - the timer is a habit I took recently after visiting this site : http://www.flylady.net/ I highly recommend it to all those of you who have been striving for years to be organised - to fall into sound sleep and wake up fresh as a daisy ; well, right in the middle of my nap I feel someone tickling my arm : Elise, ugh ! I groan and turn around, and of course when the timer goes off I don't feel I have rested properly. And when I wake up at 4, I feel I've wasted my afternoon, I have a headache, I'm still tired because the girls have been playing together and Elise can't just speak - she's loud and she talks a lot ! Well, I feel that I'm dragging myself, so to make me feel better I grab my camera and go out in the garden :
- Campanula (something) that got badly damaged by slugs last year, and now wonderfully blooming.
- same thing for that geranium psilostemon, that got hoed in spring because I had forgotten about him, fortunately no harm done.
- from the flower bedding behind our weed jungle, under the little mound and the wall, sturdy, sun and draught resistant plants such as this nepeta and delosperma. I had bought the delosperma last year not knowing it was perrenial, and it survived the rather mild winter we had this year ; I transplanted it, and there's another one in our big "flower pot wall" and it looks just fine.
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