Happy Summer !

So it’s summer again, and Carole and i are still here at 273 Kent Lodge Road. i have some pictures i wanted to share with you and i’ll do my best to explain what we are doing with our lot. i am trying to emulate David Smith and what he does with his Save a Native Plant Nursery in Fredericton. But i can see i have a long way to go to be in the same league as David.

here are some pictures of the house – she’s

still standing ! in front of the house in the

picture below you can see virginia roses,

that picture was taken Canada Day, 2022,

so they are not in bloom yet

this is what they look like when they

are in bloom, with an added picture

of my beautiful wife, Carole Asselin

carpathian bellflower blue and white clips

they are not flowering yet, but this is what they look

like when they are flowering

this is a japanese anemone we got from David

this is a quick fire panicle hydrangea we got from Kent

last summer because Michelle and Bronson had one

and Carole wanted one – it’s just about to flower

i think this is evening primrose

and i think this is swamp primrose,

but i could have the two mixed up

this is an oak sapling – we have four

that were were started from acorns that

were gathered from Michelle and Bronson’s

the year Xavier was born

this is a lylac bush that gives white flowers

but it didn’t flower much this year – we got it

from mom and dad

this is alfalfa – there are two bunches

this is a crabapple bush we also got from David

this is a hosta garden and Carole’s

home for a gnome

this is spilled wine weigela in

the triangle garden

this is more hostas

this is a cherry tree

it’s not in bloom now

these are asiatic pot lilies

they are just about to bloom

this is a spyrea bush growing on the rock

these are some lupins i planted two years

ago – they didn’t do anything until this

year but they’re doing great now

here is some glow girl birch leaf

spyrea – i got them on special –

half price – at Kent – and they

didn’t do well for the first two

years but look at them now !

here is another picture of the virginia roses

man ! that bush is getting big – they smell great !

here is an emerald cedar that we had to

move away from beside the house when

they redid the weeping tiles – good thing

too ’cause that thing is huge !

speaking of huge, this is a scotch pine

that was just a tiny thing when we moved

here in 1987 – now it’s 60 feet tall !

here are some pictures of the back yard

here are some pictures of noisette bushes

we have three of them and some new ones

also when they redid the weeping tiles,

we had to tear down the old deck.

the guy who did the excavating left the

footings and i puzzled over how to get rid

of them. finally, i had a brain fart : why not

make benches with them ? it wasn’t easy but

we set them up – i call them our Stonehenges

the red clover is so tall – i was thinking of

using it for a ground cover but maybe not

even more hostas

no idea what this is

i was thinking of calling this place

The Birches, but it looks like i

should call it Hosta Heaven !

The End

Well, i guess that’s it for this time. i will try to repost when things are in bloom – especially the virginia roses ! Too bad i can’t send smell over the ‘net, cause those virginia roses have the best smell of anything i have ever smelled (except maybe mom’s homemade bread) ! If you are lucky enough to be here in mid july, you will smell what i mean. So, get away from your computer and put down your phone and get out in your garden already ! That’s where i’m headed !