I got sunburned today! 
Jessica, you make me so tired:teehee: But Iām glad you are enjoying the gardening and projects. Maybe the rain will stop soon.
Well this thread has inspired me again! My neighbors got to enjoy my sweaty fat *** yesterday while I totally weeded my front mailbox garden. It had been completely overrun. I wish the plants I buy would grow half as well as weeds do in my gardens. I was super excited to see that some annuals I planted last year came back. I just couldnāt see them through all the weeds! It has a few perennials but for the most part it is empty now. Tomorrow I am going to pick up some more flowers for it. I canāt wait to see what the garden center has.
There is an English lady who lives down the street from me that has the most beautiful gardens. I wish I was outgoing enough to go knock on her door and talk gardening with her. I would love to see what she would suggest for my gardens.
Herre are some photos of the huge hosta plants I mentioned before. They are both from divisions of the variegated hosta, but one didnāt come true. I took 3 divisions (large clumps) a few weeks ago, but you canāt tell.
Wow! That hosta is beautiful. My poor hostas look pitiful this year.
Hahaha, I know how you feel! My in-laws are visiting and they make me tired! Theyāll work outside all day and still do stuff inside before going to bed. I had to physically stop my mom in-law from emptying the dishwasher at 11 last night!!!
Finally took a pic of the new deck! :woot:
Looks great!
Hey, the new deck looks wonderful!!! I can hear the wheels turning for landscapingā¦ :teehee:
Lovely deck. Whenās the party?
Guys- I need gardening advice. We have a backyard with nothing in it. The grass is a little sad and full of moss and weeds and there are no plants. The main problem I have is that we have almost no sun exposure in our yard. Itās a small yard and itās part of a condo, so itās open and partially shared. Any thoughts? Iād like to clean it up and have some plants, but I donāt know where to start.
The moss suggests you have enough moisture retained in the soil that ferns would do well there. Columbine is a flowering plant that does OK in shady corners. There is Rose of Sharon growing wild in a very shady creekbed near my house as wellāflowers every year too, so itās obviously a very shade tolerant plant. Violets, which have nice heart shaped leaves even when not blooming, grow in shady conditions too. And of course Hostas, which come in several sizes and can be blue or lime green or variegated green and white or green and yellow (some are smallādiam. of a basketball, some are more like a yard/meter across).
The ROS gets 10ā tall, the violets stay small, the rest are about knee high.
Hostas! Love them 
Thanks guys! I knew about hostas, but I wasnāt sure what else. I love flowers and I know I wonāt be able to have tons of them, but Iād like a few.
Also, what about tomatoes or other veggies? Do I need a lot of sun for them?
Most do need full sun, but peas and leaf lettuce can take some shade in summer. (Leaf lettuce comes in green, green with red speckles or red edges, or mostly redā¦not to mention smooth or ruffled edges).
Chives are an herb that does fine in shade too.
I wanted to share a photo of the robinās eggs that were in a nest in the red honeysuckle bush beside our deck. I was afraid that I scared the momma bird too often and interrupted her setting on them, but they have just hatched yesterday. Iāve taken a photo of them, but havenāt loaded them from the camera to the computer yet. Also, Iām working with a different camera and am not sure that Iāve figured out the zoom features yet. Anyway, here are the eggs - look close just below the red berries. The photo was taken about a week ago. The photo looks smaller than whatās on my computer. Guess Iāll have to relearn.
Iām also experimenting with attaching photos from resized photos from Photbucket in order to be sure that Iām using the right file size for KH.
Also, had a wonderful crop of sour cherries this year. It is the 1st year that there were enough to make a few jars of jam. Usually the birds and insects have gotten most of them. I only planted 2 trees, but discovered that itās a lot of work to pit enough cherries for a pie.
Knitgal, you might consider some wine cups such as these.
They are growing in shade beneath the lower branches of one of my cherry trees. They donāt spread too thickly or too quickly. I got these ones from the Jung seed catalog.
Japanese anemones grow well in shade also. However, they are very invasive, but they need very little care except for thinning.
Well my husband and I were supposed to work on the shed today but thereās a wind advisory out. Iām not going to be on top of a shed trying to nail down shingles in 30-45 mph winds! So, yeah, little miffed about that.
And also we had a storm blow thru a few nights ago that knocked over my gazing globe and shattered it. I just bought a new one yesterday. sigh The projects are never ending! 