So FINALLY I had a productive day yesterday!! 
I've potted up new daylilies!
....and right now all I have left are the 11 Blue Ridge DL's to pot up, but they're so huge, I need to get 3 gallon pots for every single one of them!! 
It's a good thing though. 
So I'm hoping the local mom and pop store, where I get commercial pots from, will be open today, being that tommorow is Memorial Day. 
This morning, I feel way less overwhelmed than I have been, for the last several weeks, and I feel so accomplished!! 🤗🤗
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Well, Thursday, I had planned, and was looking forward to, pot up new daylilies ( I didn't get around to it on Wednesday bc I was too depressed ) and just when I put Ryker out, Jerkwaad pulled in to his drive with his (very nice) dog. He does not keep that dog on a leash, though, and after his dog jumped out of the truck, he came over to "visit" Ryker, and if it hadn't been for our kennel fence that separated them, it would have turned in to a bloodbath! Both dogs were in "fighting" form, growling and showing their teeth at each other. 
After Jerkwaad called his dog over, I took the risk that he might turn around and get in my face, and I angrily yelled over the fence to him, "You know that there's leash laws!!!" and I brought Ryker inside. (Surprisingly, Jerkwaad did not come over and he said nothing back over the fence either 
) I was so angry at Jerkwaad I was spitting nails, and I was shaking from fear (of the dogs wanting to go after each other) and my anger at Jerkwaad! It just wasn't easy to collect myself. 
Well, that incident triggered my depression and anxiety to such a level that I no longer had the desire to work out there any more. I sat inside trying to motivate and force myself outside (bc I have A LOT of piled up work to do! ) but I was unsuccessful. #&%!@#&%!#&%! 
I would not wish this condition on anyone! 
After frantically searching my brain to find something from my to do list, anything at all waiting in the wings to turn my mood around, I wound up sitting down to continue painting some garden art that I'm making from repurposed items, and that did calm me down. Whew!! One more painting session and a couple coats of sealant, and they'll be done! Hoping to put them outside soon!
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Went to mini "Stuff Mart" (aka, Marc's) this evening and I scored these 5 dollar cypress saplings from there!! They had only two left, which is exactly how many I need for the forbidden garden!!
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It's been cold and windy the last several days. Although the good news is I've had time to really get down to business with designing the forbidden garden. It's quite the process for me. With limited space in the city, it's really difficult to make a "border" garden not look like a bunch of soldiers lined up in a row! Random, natural, effect is difficult for my OCD personality. Symmetry is my game. Asymmetrical design is a challenge and extremely frustrating for me. I get designer's block! It has pushed my boundaries, and now, I've come up with symmetrical asymmetry for that garden. I have most of the kinks worked out, and all that's left is placing daylilies on paper and recording what goes where! I do have some anchor plants to move, and some to buy, though. Thank heavens for Evergreen Plant Nusery, on the web! We all know how it goes, though, the saying that a Gardener's garden is never done!! Things will move, I'm sure, but not the anchor plantings unless absolutely necessary. Our youngest daughter has contributed to my design with a Mother's Day gift of a young Lilac bush!! 
On a different note, I've painted myself in to a corner (no pun intended.....just read on ) with my garden label stakes! When I got my P-Touch labeler, in early April, I didn't want to let the label stakes, already in use in the gardens, to go to the dump, so I used a black paint pen to cover my hand writing that would show past the tape label around the edges (sometimes with two coats ), and I printed labels on opaque white tape. It looks really nice, but I told myself that I won't paint any of the fresh, new markers, and, despite my OCD, I was determined to live with grey markers with white labels. Well, after discovering how nice the black with white labels look and stand out (although not obnoxiously so) in the gardens, I just have to have black stakes with white labels for all of my gardens!! Soooo, I've decided to make the quickest work of it as possible (yeah right! ) and spray paint the new stakes! 
My goal is to be an AHS approved display garden, so I feel it must be done for the purposes of continuity. 
What's frustrating is the weather has not been cooperating for me to paint them! Well, today they're finally getting painted!!! ......and I finally can make progress in the gardens!! ....and tomorrow will be nice too! 
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The weather is not cooperating in the slightest for gardening, here. The temperatures have been on an insane rollercoaster! Yesterday reached the low 50's. It was windy, but I got a lot done It was supposed to reach 60 today, and there's been high winds with gusts all day. I couldn't get out there bc I went with Mom for her eye appointment and had to drive her home. I'm not gonna lie.....once she told me about today's appointment, on Tuesday, there was some b******g going on bc I knew today would be mild temps. Some things have to come before gardening, and I'm sure she's had just as frustrating days raising me and the bros. (Especially the youngest bro. ) Currently it's 63 degrees with W winds around 23 mph and gusts up to around 36 mph. Tomorrow, rain and a high of 46 and 28 for the overnight low!! Snow is in the forecast for Saturday and 44 degrees!!! This is getting freaking old!! The good news is that the snow won't stick!!
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