Bulbs away!

Thumb: "Uh, honey? Umm... I may have overdone it with the mail order flower bulbs."

Mr Thumb: "<sigh>"

Thumb: "Just a bit."

Mr Thumb: "Overdone? You? I can't believe it."

Thumb: "Again with the sarcasm..."

I got maybe a third of them planted: some scillas (and let's see how those turn out...), crocuses, and tulips large and small. I'd post pictures but firstly, it was dark by the time I finished, and secondly, even if it wasn't, there'd be nothing to see but soil.

Pot luck tulips.

Early autumn pictures

In late summer I had a few weeks where I ran out of ammo to take care of the garden. Everything seemed to be going along nicely, so I just poured water on where plants seemed dry and Mr Thumb mowed the lawn. I couldn't fit any more plants in there and was running out of money anyway. It also seemed like autumn storms must hit Any Minute Now.

I'm still there just a bit, waiting for autumn that doesn't seem inclined to show up. I have no idea when autumn planting should be done - probably now, but I'm even more out of money now. I also feel like if I go to the garden centre I'll just come back with another clueless selection of random plants, which is what the garden now seems to be. We haven't used the garden as much as I thought we would, and I'm the only one in the family who actually enjoyes an outdoor barbicue, so that's a bit wrought.

Anyway, here's a few pictures from a nice weekend morning in the garden.

Little fly warming up on the spiraea.

Prelude to autumn.

When you get the light right, the picture's out of focus...

... and when it's on focus, the light is boring. 

Reaching up