First off, to winterize your garden, you need to dig up the anenome bulbs some idiot planted. Also, make certain the arnica is properly buried beneath the soil and the weed guard pulled out from under the bark mulch.
.Also make certain that the roots to the lavender are exposed. Dig up the anenome bulbs that were planted here, also. That’s a hole if you can’t tell.
It is best for the peonies if you pull the weed guard back and shake all the bark mulch off of it. This is how to properly leave the weed guard.
Winston is a plastic crocodile that just appeared in the yard one warm summer’s night when Levi was about 16. Levi claims he found Winston in the middle of the street and merely rescued him. Winston has two claws on each of his front legs (all the others have broken off), forming the classic “V for Victory” sign of his namesake, Winston Churchill. In this last photo of the garden, the Gardener has made certain that Winston the crocodile would be warm for the winter. I suppose I should be grateful for that. Winston has been properly mulched and buried beneath the loam in case we have a deep freeze.
Here is the Gardener during one of his rare moments inside his own dog run where he can’t get his paws dirty in the garden. Of course, being a gardener at heart, he must be able to run free in the yard at large and is here with his Boss:
Wait! Do I see something else that needs to be done in Mom’s Garden? I do! I do! I must go dig more holes for Mom!
(Disclaimer: while we do not know if Murphy has eaten the anenome bulbs, we cannot find them in the dirt he dug up. We only hope that they are not poisonous to dogs…)
Ahhh, Bullitt’s soul brother. I feel your pain, I really do.