Thursday, 6 August 2026

Cleaned up Crumbly Acres Garden

We had a lovely chat with Jordan in Kingston. He is working part-time at a grocery store. Things are going well. He is choosing courses for next term, major in astrophysics, and a minor in geology. He advocated for himself with course conflicts and schedules. I am so happy for him! 

Caitlin was in whipper snipper mode on the weekend! 


Aster watched a video in their solarium! 

Aug., 2022

The grandies helped me trim the Catalpa tree in 2022. That was fun! 




I was sad, in a way, to have the Catalpa removed, but it had to go down. You can see the bugs that were eating away at it. I now have to rethink this garden.

  

 Gardens evolve. I removed this evergreen, as it had begun to dominate the garden. Last week we had the nearly dead Catalpa tree removed. [Crumbly Acres Clean up on Aisle 7]




It really opens up the house.





A decent-sized millipede on the steps. A little cobweb on its head.


Also spotted, at least by ear and Merlin App, an Eastern Wood-pewee. I was surprised. I thought mating season over for them. Mind you, goldfinches have late broods. They are like a mini-flycatcher. 

 


6 comments:

Jeanie said...

I'm sorry about the catalpa. I know what it's like to have a "special tree" wrapped up in memories.

RedPat said...

You have a large garden to take care of.

Red said...

It's more fun working with others when they're family.

Anvilcloud said...

As light changes, so do our gardens. I removed some echinacea to provide more light for a rudbeckia. We shall see.

Val Ewing said...

Clean up on Aisle 7! Yes, I love that. Reminds me of the clean up did after the historic storms of August 2007. It took us over a year.

Somewhere back in my 2007 blogs I probably have photos of the messes.

I do love Catalpa Trees and used to have a yard of them when I lived in southern Wisconsin.

Mary Kirkland said...

I always like seeing pictures of the outside of your place. You get to see so much there.