A list of accomplishments

Lots and lots of changes in the garden ... Fence is up. (Still need to build the gate, which J is going to make from redwood.) Veggie seeds and seedlings are in. (Next year I'm going to try to do more raised-bed building, but making do with conventional rows this year.) Four new fruit trees (apple, two pears, and a plum) are doing well. Next year we hope to add a dwarf apricot.

Blueberry bushes, even though we planted (or transplanted) them this year, are loaded with berries that we should be picking by next weekend. Finishing up putting in the herb garden and seeding the annual cutting flower garden. Asiatic and day lilies are blooming, along with wild daisies.

Outside the main garden, we put roses along the house's wraparound porch: a New Dawn climbing rose (shell pink), two Candy Oh** landscape (shrub) roses (already blooming in a pretty red color) and transplanted a Zephirine Drouhin climbing rose from my old garden. The new roses are doing great -- I see noticeable new growth daily. ZD is struggling, which I predicted. (She wasn't a healthy rose when we moved her, as she'd been hidden in deep shade behind an overgrown viburnum for several years.) The ZDs are among my favorite roses (lovely Old Garden rose, incredible scent, almost thornless and a beautiful pink color.) This rose was super healthy for me for about 8 years, under normal conditions. If she doesn't do well, I'm buying another next year.

Now, to just find the time to organize and post photos and our garden plan.

**Disclaimer: I received the Candy Oh roses through White Flower Farm in Litchfield, Connecticut as part of a Garden Writers Proven Winners plant trial program. I'll be giving them a tryout for the next year (and writing about it occasionally.)

Comments

[Kate]

Sounds like you've got quite a full garden your hands! I just stumbled upon your blog randomly, and saw in an earlier post you got your trees from Adams Fairacre! As a fellow Hudson Valley gardener, its good to find people who know what an awesome place it is! (Although if you go on a Saturday afternoon there's always about a couple hundred people who know how awesome it is, too) Best of luck with everything - here's hoping for a nice season this year, not like the three months of monsoons from last year!