The yard will take all you can throw at it and then some; it usually takes three days' work to do a proper job of getting everything done, especially in the Spring when everything is growing like crazy.
There was an interesting dispute between Big Brother and his mother this morning: he wanted to read a book while outside; she thought that wouldn't be a good idea. I explained that bookish lads like Big Brother are just that way. He got to take his book out there; he didn't read it a terribly long time.
New plants this year: broccoli, cauliflower, kale, pumpkins, black-eyed susans, lavender, creeping phlox, more roses, more azaleas, gladiolus, forsythia. A couple of the azaleas need to be transplanted, as do the peonies, and the hostas desperately need dividing. Still doing the impatiens out front; more volunteers this year than ever.
Yardening can be liberating in the focus & exertion it demands.
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