Garden Open Today

In 1962, a famous garden book of the above title was published, chronicling the author's work in getting his garden ready to be open for a garden tour.

In a fit of insanity, we agreed to open our garden for Our City's Garden Day, on May 3.

Here is a very small part of my current to do list, in no particular order:

1. Clean fish pond and replace broken pump
2. Build new bird pen since birds are moving to other side of house
3. Take down old bird pen
4. Move donated shed for new bird house into position (involves finding person with forklift)
5. Move old birdhouse into woods for firewood storage (also needs forklift)
6. Build new garden bed where three big trees were removed
7. Install new kitchen path
8. Pave driveway
9. Finish massive clearing project along edge of woods
10. Transplant plants from outside vegetable garden and seed for lawn
11. Transplant 8 large boxwoods and 3 hollies
12. Eliminate large bed along front walk and transplant all plants
13. Install new front walk
14. Paint beehives
15. Spread organic crabgrass preventer on new lawn
16. Take down fence by fishpond and install new garden bed and lawn
17. Hang curtains in house (did I mention the house will be open too?)
18. Hire mover to move 12 ft long dining room table from Nana's to our house
19. Select and buy some new rugs
20. Install new lighting (OK actually just "lighting" not actually "new" lighting) in dining and living rooms
21. Frame and hang bird prints on empty walls
22. Finish building stone walls, add topsoil, seed as necessary
23. Plant vegetable garden
24. Mulch and weed existing beds
25. Bring up water plants from basement for pond and terrace containers

Good news:

Our fabulous occasional handyman is here this week and next and is hard at work.

Better news:

My fabulous mother "Nana" and my two local brothers Lineman and Rocketman are coming to help me all day Sunday.  D of L is overseeing all inside-the-house matters. There is nothing like family.

Prediction:

It won't all get done by May 3, but enough of it will. 

Promise:

I will try to post more often.  Still recovering my mojo from my Dad's death, and - as you can see from the list above, which doesn't include the items already done, I've been a tad busy.  Not counting, of course, 4 children and a full-time law practice.

Comments

[pondlady]

Sounds like a good weekend project to me.
When you decide to do something, you don't fool around do you?
I am building a garden path started last fall and only now getting soil in, so creeping plants can be planted in between rocks. And we have no winter down here in the sunny South.

[Songbird]

I'm glad you're blogging again and look forward to seeing pictures of your progress!

[Verde]

I'd love to hear how it's all coming along. I've been bugging Ruby to tell me about the bees.

[Liz Gordon]

Well how much did you get done?