orange and a color similar to purple

Out yard is so much less dreary than than back in March. We planted day lillies, hostas, and ghost ferns this weekend, and started painting the shed.

The shed is starting to look a little crazy, happy fantastic crazy, like there should be gnomes under or around it somewhere. I think that the opossum might actually be living in that corner, though.

The day lillies, also known as gutter lillies; I keep thinking of them as ghetto lillies… I used to work with a woman that was fascinated by the delineation of things or services as ghetto, like the ghetto dogs that roam around the neighborhood or the ghetto dentist. These flowers aren’t really like that, except that they seem to be everywhere around here once you start looking for them.

Ronni found a new favorite place to get plants, Carolyns Gardens in Mechanicsville, with the ghost ferns being the a great unplanned acquisition. The ghost fern has a local pedigree, having been been created somewhere close by (not close enough to be a ghetto fern, though.

Looking back 4 months, we’ve taken care of most of what we’d set ourselves up to do over the spring. And, while there is the marked tendency of houseblogs to over time devolve into garden or baby blogs, it is almost time to get back on the ladder and pick up where we left off last summer.