Besides quilting I spend a lot of time every year on my gardens. I have mainly shade gardens as I have a lot of shade in my yard. This year I have a tiny vegetable patch and have some veggies mixed in with my flowers. I have a project this summer of finishing a flower bed that I started 3 or 4 years ago — been so long I have forgotten when I started it. I have more than my share of rocks in my yard and woods and spent a lot of time with a wheelbarrow and shovel collecting them. I use those for the borders. I think they look nice and I don’t pay for them so I make use of them. Anything for free as far as landscaping is concerned is a plus in my book. For 3 years I collected fall leaves and pine needles and put them in the rocked in area and let it rot. Last year we had a lot to put in it as we had finally got a bag for the lawnmower to collect them in and it became easier. This summer it was time for me to add more dirt to get it to the level that I want it at so I can get plants planted in it this fall. Today I started on it and almost immediately had to back off until I make a run to the store tomorrow to get some snake repellant — yes I know there is at least one snake mixed in all those leaf cuttings – a small copperhead — and I don’t want to mess with that or anymore if they are there. I was turning over some of the mixture and a small copperhead came crawling out of the mess — well I backed off very carefully looking around to see if there was anymore — none, got out of there safely – called my daughter to have her ask my son-law what to do to make sure I have no more in there – he is in pest control so I figured he would have an idea of what to do — MOTH BALLS — we will see what happens. I figure seeing as I will be putting them in and around the flower bed I am working on I will also put some around the house also — this is at least the second if not third snake I have seen this month.
Here are some photo’s of the gardens: This first one is the part of the front of the house and the shade beds in front of it.
newest garden project that the snake was in:
another angle of the snake garden so you can fully appreciate the size of it 
I had tossed some lilies in it last year that I didn’t think were any good - they surprised me and grew and had flowers this year, I will leave them in the bed as that kind of lily does well in the shade. As you can see I have some cleaning up to do around it, I still have piles of rocks to move and I need to fix the border a little in some places. The rocks are dry stacked, I do not mess with masonry :
My swing and garden – I have some veggies planted in this one too -
One more – my little veggie patch – that is a make shift trellis for pole beans in the background and the bags hold upside down tomatoes.
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