Further DIY Adventures of Tedious and Tinkle in the Mule Barn

Spring just opened right on up while we were in the throes of watching the Mule Barn get built. Now we are inside trying to make it the fun place I dreamed of.

When we're done there will be more than 47 running feet of 2 foot shelving around most of 3 sides at desk top level. Meanwhile there are plants of interest in the greenhouse.

While I was hardly paying attention to the greenhouse, Benfica bloomed.

Nymph

Exotica

Appleblossom

None of these are new this year. As a matter of fact, Exotica spent a couple of years outdoors and I dug it up last summer. 

Tomatoes are still ripening back there and new 'maters  coming on.

I did manage to take time to root four new tomato plants from suckers and they've already been potted up to bigger pots. Despite all the excitement and activity I tried to keep the watering done and once in a while something got planted or repotted or at least maintained.

Persian Shield and Purple Heart,

Lemon Grass and Bromeliads.

 

Begonias and friends, a clump of Echinacea and some Rhipsalis still blooming.

One more look into the Mule Barn where I brought in a piece of garden equipment to see how it is going to fit. 

... and I finally located a pic of the Mule (and Buffy). 

Daffodil season has almost flown by without notice except when I go to the mailbox. Today I noticed that Minnow jonquillas have decided to bloom for the first time in years. 

There's lots to see and do in the garden while I am caught up with work with Tedious and dealing with making sure water drains away from the building properly.

We talked today about how Spring seems to have arrived and the always present possibility that a late killing frost will happen on April 15. 

Mule Barn Construction

The building is finished as far as being erected.

To Follow: coating the cement floor, building shelves and other finish work on the inside and outside improvements to better direct water away from the foundation.

Mule -- not. Kubota.

Update: that is not my Mule, but close. But you get the idea. We don't have live mules. At the clinic in Tallahassee today, we talked with a couple who used to buy and sell horses. Lots and lots of work, keeping animals. Little vehicles you just put in gasoline or in the one above diesel fuel and off you go. 

Top Hit Hyacinth and Mule Barn Update

This is a hyacinth that I have grown for more than fifteen years. This bulb may be that old.

Hyacinthus 'Top Hit'

They are described as shades of lilac and lavender. This is one that I never forced.  

Mule Barn

It's too early to show pictures but the Mule Barn needs a little more 'skin' on the front and a roof. The doors are in place. Once the steel is all in place, we are on our own for the inside.

The color is some sort of Sand. Sand color buildings here look as if they rose out of the ground rather than settling here from elsewhere if they were pure white or some darker or brighter color.

It won't shade the greenhouse as much as I feared.

Unable to stand not being able to 'help' I went out front and in the upper garden and divided Muhly grass and Vetiver and replanted. Pieces of Muhly that were too small to replant I put into 4 little pots to grow into a clump.  I divided some Echinacea as well. Some of it lost roots, so those pieces are potted up to grow roots.

I went out and stood in the Mule Barn a while ago. Blue sky with white fluffy clouds overhead looked good. I mentally measured where shelves will go and where garden equipment will park. Maybe a rocking chair out there?