Monday, 19-Nov-12

South Forty

Yesterday we bought six bare-root fruit trees on sale. Today we planted them in two rows of three (for easier mowing), spaced about four meters apart, between Ben and the big junipers. There are two pears, two apples, two plums, working left to right as you face the bottom of the South Forty.

2	4	6
1	3	5

It was a bit hard to tell exactly where the soil line was, but we did our best.

1. Pear Williams, aka Bartlett apparently. A bit of root broke off this guy, so we hope it turns out OK.
2. Pear Conference, the regular long-necked pear.
3. Apple Reine des Reinettes.
4. Apple Belle de Boskoop. A Dutch apple, of course.
5. Plum Reine Claude d'Oullins (although the flyer says Oullens), a yellow plum.
6. Plum Quetsch, a purple plum.

Saturday, 17-Nov-12

Yard

• Ed's laid the walk out in front of the shed and rehung the shed doors so that they clear the walk.

South Forty

• I planted Victor's bulbs in the parental grove. Planted the 10 Leucojum aestivum in a group near Dottie Dogwood. I mixed the 50 Chionodoxa lucilae and 100 Allium neapolitanum and planted them in groups of ten, more or less, throughout the area. The last bunch, I planted in the tops of molehills. Have a jolly big broken blister on my right palm where I pressed on the trowel to make holes.
  • Leucojum aestivum (summer snowflake, nievéole d'été): Plant  Sep-Dec, bloom Apr-May (white), height 25cm. Will naturalize.
  • Chinodoxa lucilae (glory of the snow): Plant Sep-Dec, bloom Feb-May (purple), height 15cm
  • Allium neapolitanum (daffodil garlic): Plant Sep-Dec, bloom Apr-May (white), height 25cm

Wednesday, 14-Nov-12

Yard

• The woodshed as been "painted" and is almost ready for the wood. Now need to think about how the garden around the umbrella tree should be arranged.

South Forty

• Planted Papa's pecan tree. (That's a chestnut tree with very yellow leaves on the left; the sun is going down behind the ridge near the center.)
  
  
  
  
  
• Here's Martha Sweetgum:
  
  
  
• Here's Gingko Ben:
  
  
  
  
• Here's Dottie Dogwood:
  
  
  

Potager

• Most things gone. Wild strawberry blooming.

Entry

• Have bought a pergola to go where the fioul tank was. Stones for rest of walk by the woodshed have been moved to the backyard, so the space is ready to go.