Watching my garden grow

It's been about six weeks since I started to work on the garden, and I'm happy to report that there is some progress. After a sudden drop in temperature in late March, the sun has been out and shining brightly. Everything seems to be doing well except for the tulips, which have all died. They were doing fine, I was getting excited but then they suddenly died. I have to do some research to figure out what went wrong there.




One of my neighbours said I can transplant some of her impatiens, they do well in shade and humidity, which is the main state of our little patch. That will be my project for this week. I also found the sunflower seeds and those are starting to come up now. I'm really looking forward to when everything flowers. The Oxalis and Lily of the Valley have already started!

Turning the earth

I spent a pleasant hour outside this afternoon working on our little piece of earth. My sweet friend Lucy gave me the cutest set of gardening tools, and I could finally put them to good use. I raked, I dug, I clipped, I planted. Now I just need to wait to see if anything will grow!

There is already what I think is a narcissus that the previous tenants planted, very sweet smelling and taking center stage right now. I hope that soon it will be surrounded by tulips, gladioli, lily of the valley and roses. Oh and sunflowers, if I ever find where I put the packet of seeds. I'd also love to have a small corner of cat grass for the kitties, in the hopes that they will leave the other plants alone (wishful thinking right?).

While digging I came across this beauty, I had seen some of its smaller relatives earlier, but he (or she) gave me quite a start! But having earthworms is a good thing, so even though I am pretty squeamish I was happy to see that our garden is alive!