Spiraled Right Out of Control

It's spring, for better or worse. This means that it rains every other day (if not every day) and my floors are covered in dog prints and mud. It means that snow is fairly common, although definitely not welcome. It means that we get a warm and sunny day on rare occasions, and on those days I get the urge to garden and do all manner of outdoor activities.

We had one of those fun and warm days this week, and I took advantage during the 2 hours I had that evening after a full day of running. I started the stone fireplace that I was dreaming of.



Just hush about that whole big  stone stove design being reduced to the simple and easy. Sometimes one has to realize their limitations, and it's better up front than a year into a project. But when I ran out of wonderfully perfect rocks at my fingertips (without having to actually go look for them in the hedgeline and woods) I decided to move on.

I have gardening ADHD.

You know those fun spiral shaped shrubs? Love them.



Beautiful, no? And just look at it - it's gotta be simple, right? I mean, you just trim branches from the trunk in a spiral shape the whole way up the to the top. I had the perfect shrub to spiralize, and it was in need of a trim anyway. Behold, my masterpiece:



It's spring, for better or worse. The time of year when it rains almost daily, and the days it doesn't rain I find a plant to humiliate. That poor shrub is now the laughing stock of the neighborhood. I actually pity it. And considering that it's still April and there's a lot of season left in Spring, it could be a very bad year for the plants at my place.