I worked in my garden a little yesterday. It was glorious! I cleaned up my bushes that had been damaged by Hurricane Irene. The landscaping company that works for the bank next door had come through and clipped many of the branches overhanging the fence already. I was embarrassed by my failure to do it myself. At least they didn’t leave me an ugly note or something. The butterfly bushes were particularly bad. Their branches are pretty brittle, and they had broken in many places. By the time I was done, the bushes were very thin looking, and I had a huge pile of cut branches. Too bad I can’t just burn the clippings. They are going to be a pain to take to the dump.
While I was in the garden, I noticed the impatien clipping I brought from Seward this summer is finally blooming. It’s so pretty. I am definitely bringing this to overwinter inside.
All the Seward impatiens say ‘hi’ to their sherbet-colored sibling.
What do you mean you wish you could burn those clippings? Is it because they’re too green now or nobody would use them for a ‘cooking fire’?
I mean I want to burn them all at once. But that would make a huge bonfire, and I’m sure the Baltimore City Department of Bonfires would write me a citation with a fine or require me to pay a several hundred dollar fee for the privilege of burning something on my own property. Stupid government…
Beautiful impatien! The impatien in my office bloomeths not. 🙁 But it’s still alive…I guess. It still green and the stems are all upright.
(Hey, could you just keep the pile of clippings…like a wood pile & burn them a bit at a time in your firepit?)