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.

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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.

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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:

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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.

8 comments:

Debbie @ Three Weddings said...

LOL! Edward Scissorhands you are not! Of course the only thing I ever seem to do with shrubs is cut them down. I hate the whole trimming thing and usually opt for removal.

Siobhan said...

Hahaha oops. Love it though, different is good, right? Right?

Becoming Mommy said...

LoL. This is why l try for the cottage garden look. Messy, crammed together plants l can do.

JennyH said...

Ha! looks great Karen! Maybe it'll grow back out so you can try again!!

Trisha said...

Personally, I think you did a fine job with the spiral attempt. It just needs a few more trims to get into perfect shape!

Michelle said...

Love it. And that's exactly why I'd never try to spiralize my plants. At least it's even! :) I'm still waiting for the over 40 degrees so I can go pull more weeds and work on my garden....

Karen Deborah said...

not bad for a first venture, what do you think other peoples first tries are like? Maybe there are how to videos on you tube or something. it really isn't bad.
you crack me up with the garden ADD--ditto only mine is ADHD. I think the stone work is awesome! I thought it was going to be a raised planter from looking at it. You seriously have those stones around for the taking? Awesome!

Kaycee said...

Your "spiraling" job is miles better than anything I can do, so color me impressed!!