Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
It doesn’t look like it, but this is some serious green thumb-ing going on here! E is making me a cold frame for my birthday! I’m helping by holding lumber while it is being cut, and then priming and painting the cut wood before E puts the frame together.
This is going to be an awesome cold frame for all of my new flowers and vegetable seeds from the Washington Gardener Seed Swap!
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Under two feet of snow
Flower bed on the right, lawn on the left. Right now, just snow. 
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Such beautiful, sunny Chrysanthemums on a rainy day in DC.
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An Alaska Mix Nasturtium. Taken today, edited slightly to sharpen up the iPhone blur.
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A bit of what DC used to be like before it became DC… with some non-native additions. You can see my entire set of pictures from the day’s excursion here.
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I aspire to my mother’s garden.
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Azalea ‘Ben Morrison’
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We had a lot of cardboard boxes and newsprint left over from our recent move, many of which are on their third use and can’t be used again for storage/moving. Instead of recycling the boxes (which may or may not mean they actually get recycled), I opened them up and I’m using them as the second layer of the base for the new flower beds. (Layer one was the newsprint which you can see in some areas that aren’t covered by the boxes.)
(detail available on Flickr.)
The next layer will be composted mulch from Fairfax County’s solid waste program.
I took this picture while on a walk a few days ago. There is something so hopeful about seeing bulbs coming up after the winter.
It looks like there are also some shrubs poking through the soil in this picture as well. I didn’t notice them while I was looking at the tulips. Funny how the picture shows more than real life did.
