Continuing my isolation photos as I wander around the garden.
When we had our retaining wall replaced we have to move quite a few of our plants. Some survived and some didn't due to the drought at the time but this dahlia seemed to pick up after it was transplanted and we have a single bloom.
This isolation game is so good for our garden, David and I have spent all day in the garden. He has been clearing out an area behind our shed that was in a terrible state and I have been chopping small logs for kindling.
By the time this covid thing is over we are going to be super fit.
Beautiful flower. After many years I have planted 6 dahlias this Spring. Hoping to have some beautiful flowers this Summer. And I will be home to look after them because Covid 19 seems to be taking a long time for us to go out in safety.
I think a lot more of us are going to have lovely gardens by the time all this is over - but we will all be so desperate to get out that perhaps we will not stick around to enjoy the best of them? Glad yours is keeping you fit too. Lovely specimin of flower Babs. shown in its prime.
@ludwigsdiana The jobs in our garden are ones we have been shutting our eyes about for ages because we have been so busy socially. ha ha
@pusspup I will buy some more too in the future, we lost so many plants when we had to replace the retaining wall and then with the drought they weren't replaced.
@sangwann Hope your dahlias survive, they are such gorgeous flowers.
@robz I am going to have muscles like Samson by the time this is finished. I am used to getting plenty of exercise normally with the walking group, tai chi and keep fit classes but nothing like this heavy duty stuff.
We have about 20 trees in our garden and they are trimmed regularly so the branches etc get put on the log pile to use as kindling for our wood burner fire. The only problem is the pile never gets reduced much until now. ha ha
This flower is a real stand out! I think a lot of gardens are getting a good tending to over here as well. At least I've been hearing a lot of leaf blowers lately. Good shot!
@golftragic I know, taking photos of flowers, I think this isolation lark must be getting to me. Time to go back on the medication I reckon.
@taffy Thanks Taffy. I always have lots of things to do, so isolation isn't a problem for me.
One huge project I am doing is scanning old photos of myself when young, parents and grandparents etc and I will put them in a photobook when I have embellished them in Photoshop.
@olivetreeann Our gardening chores are keeping us busy along with lots of other projects too.
Love your dahlia.
As our garden has more trees than flower beds it is all the unusual stuff that needs doing in our garden like clearing out behind the shed and chopping the branches that appear in the log pile when we trim trees etc.
@ludwigsdiana The jobs in our garden are ones we have been shutting our eyes about for ages because we have been so busy socially. ha ha
@pusspup I will buy some more too in the future, we lost so many plants when we had to replace the retaining wall and then with the drought they weren't replaced.
@dide Progress indeed, much needed too.
@sangwann Hope your dahlias survive, they are such gorgeous flowers.
@robz I am going to have muscles like Samson by the time this is finished. I am used to getting plenty of exercise normally with the walking group, tai chi and keep fit classes but nothing like this heavy duty stuff.
We have about 20 trees in our garden and they are trimmed regularly so the branches etc get put on the log pile to use as kindling for our wood burner fire. The only problem is the pile never gets reduced much until now. ha ha
@taffy Thanks Taffy. I always have lots of things to do, so isolation isn't a problem for me.
One huge project I am doing is scanning old photos of myself when young, parents and grandparents etc and I will put them in a photobook when I have embellished them in Photoshop.
@olivetreeann Our gardening chores are keeping us busy along with lots of other projects too.