Landscape Update & Garden Center News

Look at this-A blog two days in a row.  I wanted to share some changes here in the Village.  If you read one of our posts last year about the landscaping in front of our condo-click on this link for a reminder http://jchuber.blogspot.com/2010/11/landscaping-update.html, I thought I would show you how the plants are maturing.

Here’s the front of the condo with the roses in bloom.

On the side yard we have added a lime tree and some additional plants to fill in the slope area.  The water tends to run off the slope when the sprinklers run, so it’s hard to get anything to grow.

The big news is that our friends Bob & Ronnie have share their garden plot in the garden center with us for the Winter.  The Village has two areas for community gardens, but there’s a waiting list to be assigned one.  We’ve been on the list for two years, but we still don’t have a space.  Here’s a view of the garden center where we’re growing some Winter veggies.

Here’s our planting area.  We’re planting strawberries, lettuce, spinach, peas, carrots, and beets.

We’re having a lot of fun planting.  As long as we’ve been married, we both have enjoyed working in the garden.  Especially Linda.  And this gives us space to play.  I’ll let you know in the Spring how everything grew, and if you live close we’ll share some of the bounty. 

Landscaping Update

If you remember last June I wrote in a post titled “Under the Weather” I talked about some of the landscaping change we’re making around the condo.  Well we’re finally making progress.

The roses are planted.

We did some transplanting and added a Meyer Lemon tree to the slope on the side of the house.

It already has some blooms on it.  We should have lemons by next spring.  Perfect timing.  We moved some plants to create a pathway to the water facet.

There was a beautiful evergreen plant that produced blue flowers. We still don’t know the official name of the plant.  However, every time it started to bloom, the gardeners would trim it back.  So moving it so it will spill down the slope will allow the flower to bloom completely.  It’s just behind the hanging plants.

So now I all need is some pavers to the get cleanly to the facet, and build a trellis to the left of the roses behind the Heavenly Bamboo.  A good post holiday project.  I’ll keep you informed of our progress.