MARCH in Seattle!
...started out pretty warm and now it's roaring through like a lion! We've had two days of nights in the thirties. It actually snowed two days ago. I know the plants can take it but I'm not sure I can. I'm preparing containers for a fundraiser on March 20th for the Interfaith Family Shelter in Everett, WA. It's at 2820 Oakes Avenue from 1-5PM if you'd like to come. Lot's of gorgeous native and perennial plants in pots for sale! Check out www.interfaithwa.org for more information about the shelter.
And, I continue to work on a pretty significant renovation of a garden on Mercer Island. We are pulling 10 years worth of blackberry and ivy out of an area that also has a beautiful old dogwood tree, lots of forsythia, a couple of rhodies and lots of narcissus. We will find the inner garden shortly (about 14 hours of work so far) and make it into a beauty! The photo of last week's work shows the old tires and and old riding lawn mower we also found under all the undergrowth. Treasures for sure! The bottom photo shows the 'before' and the top photo shows the 'after' of this renovation. It took me about 30 hours of work by myself to clear this area out enough to hire someone to come in with heavy equipment to take out a dangerous oak tree (over 50' tall!) and then push the soil around to smooth it all out and get out about 60 blackberry bushes. Now it gets sun! We are going to plant native plants only in this area.
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