My Garden

I've noticed over my life time I've developed a sort of dreamscape catalogue. The most recent dreamscape I've noticed in my thematic dreams is the garden setting.

I had another "garden" dream recently.

This one was rather funny, I found myself in a young garden, walking along a gardeners path. I was searching for suitable bare spots between the young plant and bush foliage to scatter the seeds I was carrying. The action felt surreptitious somehow. A memory throwback perhaps to my childish joy of raiding neighbouring gardens. I realized I was planting pot seeds of all things, and woke.

As I woke I remembered a few gardening duties I needed to complete and put them at the top of my to do list.

I spent time in the garden yesterday, a bright crisp day. There was a call for freezing temperatures and I was concerned about my young shoots. They are doing fine. Tall tulip stalks are rising five and six inches from the ground. I expect blooms by the end of next month. My crocus and hyacinth have begun to bloom. I've got a bed of mulch down to protect the bulbs and young plants from freezing. It's been dry the last few days so there is less liklihood for the ground freezing. I think they should be fine. Gee placed some beautiful white river rock all around the lawn level flower beds. This will help with drainage, hopefully will be less attractive to dogs than the previous wooden stakes we used and it looks gorgeous with the flowers.

Now I'm preparing my idea's for the spring planting season.

I'm going to introduce an English ivy ground cover in the shady parts of the lawn where bare patches are prevalent.

Last year we built a rock containing wall around the building and am looking to add a rambling rose vine and a mixture of jasmine for colour and scent to flow over it and into the ivy.

Eventually I would like to replace the entire problematic lawn with ground cover such as vines, low flowering bushes and some more rock displays.

I'm going to introduce the idea to the owner slowly, as I unveil my gardening vision season by season. Another boon to living in Vancouver, a 12 month gardening season!