Patio Garden Head Start

Everything on and in the tiny patio garden looks scruffy. After twelve years, we finally found some foot rests that go with the existing furniture. So yesterday we decided to unpack them to see how they looked. Because it was unusually lovely yesterday, I started to attack the scruffy stuff in the garden - having no mercy on the clematis vine that was taking over the fence. Between that and the ivy that was crawling everywhere, the trim was long past due. The only things I hesitated to cut were the hydrangea bushes. I did that one year and didn’t have one bloom all season. So now we can really see the spring bulb greens emerging among the garden statues and birdbath. Once we were done the sparrows were searching for scraps for their nests, the squirrels were checking for lost treasure, and all of them were hoping we would set up the watering hole. It does look much neater and it is the only patio garden in our condo complex. It really is a secret garden in this very urban neighborhood and we are looking forward to using it again. But I have to remember it’s only February.