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April looked like spring bulbs putting on a glorious show. And in case you missed it, I did a whole deep dive in the daffodils that I planted last fall if you’d like to geek out with me.
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April looked like the landscape coming alive, both in my yard and in the neighborhood. Yes…hello color.
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April looked like spending our evenings and weekends tending to projects around the yard. This year we (and when I say “we” I mean Tripp) had to replace a bunch of sprinkler lines in our backyard (which #firstworldprobs obviously). But in case you were curious, I now know the exact aisle at Home Depot where all of the sprinkler system stuff is sold, as well as the difference between a barbed elbow and barbed swing pipe tee. Plus I also learned how to work the controller and program the system.
No, I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express or watch a YouTube video – I read the manual thank you very much.
Sidenote #1: This whole project sparked a conversation between my beloved and myself about our different learning styles. I tend to learn by reading and then by doing, and Tripp learns by watching then doing. I could probably do a whole blog post about the things we’ve learned how to do from watching YouTube videos, but that’s another post for another day. But it was interesting nonetheless.
Anyway…
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April looked like a lot of flowerbed rehab. The last couple of years have been really hard on shit – I lost all of my original David Austin roses that planted back in 2017. So this year I added three new ones to a different part of the yard where we had removed a bunch of dead nandinas.
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April also looked like some ranunculus rescue. I noticed that something had been eating the foliage off the tubers I planted a month ago or so. At first I thought it might have been bunnies (omg….so. many. bunnies), but when I asked the internet, it said that ranunculus are usually critter resistant. Otherwise they look so healthy, so I decided to dig up the tubers and put them in pots on my back porch. I have no idea if they’ll bloom at all, but at least they’ll have a fighting chance now.
Sidenote #2: I share a lot of photos of pretty garden flowers in this space so it’s important to me that you know that I deal with my share of garden challenges too.
April looked like planting my summer annuals out front and in the pots in my backyard.
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I am currently going bonkers for the begonias that I found at my local Ace Hardware.
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April looked like some much needed rain.
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April looked like dirty hands and garden therapy.
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April looked like the promise of good things to come.
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As always, thank you for letting me share my photos and my stories with you.
Love, Kelly
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