Late Summer Snapshots

by Katie

 Some snapshots from my garden as summer has progressed.

 

 

  

 

  

  

   

  

   

 

Summer in Madison

I love Madison in the summer. There are gardens everywhere, whimsical sidewalk paintings, bizarre and ambiguous posters that invite you to basement discussions of various ideological positions of the far left. Thought I'd share some photos of my (daily) walking journey through the city.

My New Front Yard

by Katie

The spring weather, coupled with a lot of business over the past two weeks, has made me a bad blogger. But I have something to show for it! Here's what I started with in my front yard a couple weeks ago. (Keep your eyes on the tree in the corner.)

 

Let me backtrack for a second.

It took me a LONG time to dig up all the sod that was growing up under the tree like an awkward poodle skirt. So I did that for a while.

Last weekend was Mother's Day. The Friday before, I had worked in a frenzy to start planting under the tree. Then on Saturday, my mom (the amazing gardener/designer) came into town, and we went to the Olbrich Gardens plant sale and bought a LOT of plants. We drove around town afterwards and dropped in on other plant sales, picking up a few more lovely specimens. Then my mom left, and I worked like a crazy person to get them all in the ground that day. Here's how it went.

 

 

   

  

So that's what I've been doing! I've added a couple things since taking these pictures, but this is basically where the project is right now. I can't wait to see how it will look when the plants fill in!!