Too nice to work...

But I did, at least a little, and then went down to make a late breakfast. After breakfast I stood in my minuscule backyard, enjoying the blue sky and thinking it would be so nice to be able to hand out my sheets....

....except that my whole yard is 17 x 17, we've been feeding the sparrows for months, and my sheets would be covered with bird poop in about 20 seconds.

Another good reason to move!

On the other hand, there's a volunteer opp to work on a little public garden outside the Hort Soc headquarters tonight at 5:30. That's an easy bike ride and I'm sure if I turned up with my trowel land my entrenching tool they wouldn't turn me away.

( EDITED TO ADD: Garden Notes )

Free to a good home...

Looking at the way these common blue flag iris are packed into the whiskey barrel in front of our house, I am guesstimating that even after thinning and planting some of the overflow out back I'm likely to have several fans left.

Would anybody like any of the Community Garden Rescue Iris? As I said, they're nothing special. But they're cheerful, they're sturdy, they tolerate incredible abuse, and they will multiply like guppies. I know that several folks on my f-list already have these, and I think they're doing okay as far north as Minneapolis.

I probably won't thin them until late May or early June, which is earlier than I should but the barrel is rotting right before my eyes.

( the iris in the community garden nine years ago )