Working
This weekend we did weed…and weed and weed! We also drove to Primex and bought salt hay. I like salt hay in my herb garden – it looks more casual. We do need to mulch as it, 1. helps keep the weeds down and, 2. holds the moisture during our hot dry summers. We use regular mulch in the rest of the yard but I like the salt hay here.
I bought two flax plants. The blue flowers are so wonderful and having a garden with dye plants and other textile plants I need flax. I had some before but they died out. One year I bought some and another I planted from seed. (The bought ones were wonderful but the seed ones were wimpy.)
Bob also bought a Spanish Jasmine and an metal obelisk for it to grow on. We plan to put it in a planter so we can take it inside in the winter. Jasmine reminds us of the Hotel San Giorgio in Lenno on Lake Como in Italy.
Sitting in their garden; being served white wine, prosciutto with melon; looking across the lake; smelling the jasmine growing up the walls…….. we’re asking a lot from this little plant and its new obelisk!