Day 143 - Garden Update - PICTURES!!! - Climbing Rose

So... I may have gone a mite crazy with the pictures. I've become one of those people that immediately pull out a wallet full of baby pictures. But whatever. I'm pleased with my garden and I really wanted to have a some sort of a record of my progress this time around

Anyway, yesterday I posted a picture of my climbing rose. Here now are several pictures in a row that I hope will capture the awesomeness of the beast.

Day 143 - Garden Update - PICTURES!!! - Living Room Window

This first picture is a long range view of what's just under my living room window.



And then up close and personal we have from left to right, Peony, which I think will start blooming in a couple of days, another rose bush, which has a few buds but nothing like the climbing rose, the group of plants to the left of the rose that got cut off is some kind of giant daisies.



To the right of the rose bush, is Comfrey. Don't know if I'd make tea out of it. Apparently, these plants are HIGHLY invasive. To give you some idea, I didn't plant them and my neighbours don't have any. I just went out one day and it was there. Being smug. Fortunately, it has pretty bell shaped flowers so it can stay, but I'll be keeping my eye on it. It propagates by sending out shoots on its roots. It's a bit like a hydra. If you dig up the root and don't dispose of it properly, you'll end up with several more plants depending on how many roots pieces you broke the parent root into.

In the shade of the Comfrey plant are a couple of hen and chicks. The last picture is an up close shot of them. The soil in that area is quite bad so they like it there.

Day 143 - PICTURES!!! - Bedroom Window

This is a long view of the stuff under my bedroom window. The spiky plant in the back is a yucca. You can't really tell because it's just green right now but in the foreground is a lilac and directly behind it is a hydrangea. The rest of the green stuff on the ground are weeds I have yet to dig out. You can see where I've been weeding in the foreground. The holes being where the bigger dandelion plants were.



In this picture is the barely top of the lilac, the top of the hydrangea and climbing the wall is... some kinda climbing vine :D I don't think it's a wisteria or a clematis. It might be a honey suckle but really, I have no idea. I may end up digging it out as its a mystery plant that doesn't have any flowers. Yet. Lastly, off to the right is my neighbour's pine tree. At least I think it's a pine of some description.



To the left is a picture of the edging stones I mentioned in an earlier post. You can see the start of the double row I was talking about. To the right is a picture of a giant frog :)



Directly behind the frog is a bird bath. It won't stay there as it's too close to the house for the birds to feel comfortable using it. The fact that it's neon blue may also perturb them. I know it perturbs me. I have no idea what my boss was thinking.

Day 143 - PICTURES!!! - Big Patch Across From the Living Room Window

So, when I talk about the big patch, this is the area I'm talking about. Four pictures, three of which show the width and some of the depth of the lot and the last one is a shot of my maple tree. It's about five times the size as it was last year. You can see how much weeding I did in the three hours on Saturday. I think probably another week end should do it.