Gardening, anyone?
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I missed a page,... and gorgeous photo Jackbirdie. I would have said those are hydrangeas. Are they viburnum? Gorgeous bouquet, whatever we decide.
No I think you are correct. The leaves are not hydrangea.
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Balthus.. HaHa.. all the males will be driving around trying to see exactly who's doing their gardening 😃😱
Devine.. Your garden looks great.!
Katy. I love your bouquet :-)
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JAZZY – beautiful irises, and what pretty colors on those
flowers I’ve never heard of!TWOHOBBIES – love the color of that ground cover… Phlox, you
say?DMM – See? You can “Introduce” your Creeping Phlox! Love,
love, love your azaleas!JBEANS – I love the fragrance of flowers, but of course, DH
is allergic to everything…SCOTTIE – Brown Fig Trees… I’ll have to look that up. I
think there are LOTS of changes in everyones’ gardens this year due to the wild
weather fluctuations we’ve had… Tree roots are an issue for us, too. I think I
am done planting… at least without a power auger. Or dynamite.BALTHUS– gorgeous yard… so sorry to hear about DH; perhaps
he spent some time recuperating in your relaxing yard? Uh, World Naked
Gardening Day? I don’t think so! I already get bit by critters in places that
annoy me…WREN – that really was a “grab bag”…. Lucky for you! My only
daffodils came from a tiny pot I got at Trader Joes, and on a whim, put them in
the ground. They bloom every year! As for container gardens, last year we
planted Encore Azaleas. My Landscape Designer said it was no use putting them
in the ground, as we could not control the environment (serious hardpan, clay,
alkaline soil) so I used giant cobalt pots, and amended the soil to what they
needed. Got a wonderful bloom this year!JACKBIRDIE – such pretty bouquets! I used to make bouquets
from anything I had growing in my yard, so that we could take them to my MIL in
the nursing home every Sunday. Her favorites were my Lisianthus. I felt so happy knowing that everything came from my yard. You have an eye for beautiful arrangements!~ ~ ~ ~
Well, we waited all day for the rain today, but it weenied out and
went around us. We sure could have used the water. We’re already on
restriction. Should be in the 90s by next week.Last week we moved the azaleas to under the big corner redwood tree
(since the neighbor destroyed my shade garden) and since I have two extra
cobalt pots, I think I might try some African daisies in one. The drip hose is
still there… It will give the look of “Wave Petunias” that DH likes, but they
are perennials, so no replanting every year.The neighbor is taking forever to gut his house and
yard, and I finally realized I won’t be able to plant MY trees til next fall.
So now we have to go out and paint all the trunks of our Japanese Maples with
something called “Tree Trunk White” to prevent them from burning. We are also
going to hang frost cloth from way high up in the branches to protect them from
damage. It will look really funky from the neighbor’s yard, but hey – he’s the
one that caused this problem in the first place.And – we had all our Japanese Maples professionally pruned
for the first time in 8 years. They look great!Will post pics soon, now that I’m using my iPhone and storing
them in the Cloud, instead of on stupid Windows 10.Hope all of you in the dreadful weather’s path stay safe!!!
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I am loving being able to share spring with all of you. Finally. We have waited so long. The pics are allgreat and always inspire me.
Under the heading of excuses to dead head flowers for indoor arrangements, my Rhodies are ancient and appear to never have been properly attended to. The Japanese maples needed shaping.
The vase is thoroughly inappropriate (but the right size) but somehow it works.
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JACKBIRDIE - love the addition of maples to your arrangement!
Whenever I had a shortage of flowers in my garden to make up a vase for MIL in the nursing home, I would stick whatever greenery I could find in there. Most often it was leather fern, but many times it was lavender, or even rosemary. I think I might have even used some Redwood trimmings once or twice!
Use what ya got!
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Teka- sorry for your snow glories, but what a dramatic photo it makes. Just striking!
Here's a perfect little bloom that no critters got to before my pruners did. Smells really nice. Happy weekend everyone! Hope you can manage to get outside for a deep breath of fresh air.
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Still early here in New England. Snow on the mountain the other morning. Sub zero temps at the beginning of april killed the forsythia, magnolia and apple blossoms :-(0 -
Lovely Bouquet Jackie. . .bought two more goof sized hydrangeas at Sam's Club today. They get them every mother's day and I have Dh buy them in lieu of overpriced roses that won't last. So we have 4 hydrangeas to plant next weekend along with my hostas and other haul from this coming Saturday's Master Gardner's sale.
Scottie
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TEKA - snow glories!
JACKBIRDIE - a bloom without critters.... that would be great.... (lovely color)
FLAVIAROSE - that landscape looks almost "Sound of Music"-y. Pretty!
SCOTTIE - love my hydrangeas.... only wish they were that bright "Nikko Blue" color year round. Not even that granular stuff keeps them blue. Oh well. I hear they are pretty easy to propagate... I have two large bushes in the front, and one large one in the back. My Landscape Designer finally told me how to prune them correctly this winter, and now they are so full! Just waiting for the buds to bloom.
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Well, DH and I got out and painted our trees today. Seriously. Thanks to the neighbor's cutting down all the huge redwoods along our fenceline, our Arborist said we would definitely lose all our gorgeous Japanese Maples along the south fence if we didn't take some drastic action. So today we painted on "Tree Trunk White"... and tomorrow, up go the giant sheets of frost cloth as protective curtains. That should be interesting..... they are 50' x 5'. I will be stapling several together. The neighbor behind us will get an interesting view. Too bad, so sad.
AND - I just noticed that when his concrete guys put up the concrete block wall fence, they blew some kind of mortar all over our fence, our gazebo, our maples, our redwood, AND.... my encore azaleas!
It washed off, but wasn't the way I wanted to spend the rest of the afternoon.
I didn't say anything. Still trying to be the nice neighbor.
Should be in the high 80's all week, then three days of rain all next weekend!
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Surprise, surprise! After dinner, I looked outside, and it was raining! Doing the happy dance!
Also, I hope this shows up... it's dinner time at the bird feeder. All the little house finches are greedily jockeying for a good position, until a rather large visitor (a dove) showed up.
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Blessings- you are a patient woman. I'm glad you're able to save the Japanese Maples. Sounds like a lot of work, but worth it.
Flaviarose- what a lovely, serene landscape!
Scottiemom- I love hydrangeas too. And there are so many different kinds. How luxurious to have so many you can enjoy cut flowers, dried flowers, and still enjoy some in your garden
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Anyone's vegetable gardens getting going? I have been harvesting asparagus, broccoli, kale, spinach and lettuce. Lots of seeds sprouting.
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Monis, your veggies are beautiful. Things here are much slower. Had 1 asparagus. Several others are starting to poke out. A bunny or something has eaten a lot of the kale and lettuce! Lots of seeds starting to sprout - the snow peas are 2 inches tall. We still have danger of frost until memorial day, so things like tomatoes and peppers will wait until then.
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Monis.. Great job with your veggies.. I'm envious :-)
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Monis- what a beautiful arrangement! The veggies look wonderful and I would frame that !!!! Still life- worthy. Love the simplicity of the color scheme.
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Sure looks good, Monis. All I see is chives here! I've been thinking about planting some lettuce varieties in a pot. I think it looks so pretty and I could keep it close to the house where the bunnies won't eat it.
I've also been thinking about putting a hydrangea in a pot too. I have three in the back that don't get enough sun. So my first thought is I could put one in a pot and move it where needed. But then I had the notion to buya blue one at the store for Mother's day and put in a container in hopes I may keep it blue. We do not have acid soil here so they turn pink but can I buy an acid soil for a container? Scottie could you send me some dirt? I know that good Georgia dirt would keep it beautiful blue. So that's one of my projects upcoming.
My cherry tree is near full bloom. If I get a good day I'll take a picture. We've had a lot of rain, clouds and cold.
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TwoHobbies- I decided to try lettuce in pots so I could keep an eye on the slugs! So far they are doing well. I also rescued a tarragon from last year. It's green but doesn't seem to be growing. I have some carrots in another pot. Slow going.
Those are the few little carrot seedlings. Something might have gotten to them, or perhaps the seed wasn't viable. Despite being watched over by my tin watch dog.
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We grow lettuce in the big clay saucers. We pick it pretty young and they have really shallow roots. I buy the mixed seeds.
Two Hobbies, They have special fertilizer for acid loving plants (blueberries for instance) and there's something you can dig into the soil to keep them blue. A garden nursery would know what.
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how lovely! what are those purple flowers
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I've heard that for some hydrangeas you can put pennies in the soil to make them turn blue, and iron nails in the soil to make them turn pink.
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Hi there- it is called a Blue Sennetti. I got it from my favorite nursery this week, never seen one before but love the color of the deep blue/purple flowers against the lime green leaves. It is stunning!
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it's lovely! is it a perennial
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Jazzy.. It's extremely striking..it looks terrific.!!
Katy.. Love your tin watch dog :-)
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Thanks for the hint, Wren. I've been looking for something to start lettuce, and everything is so deep! I'd thought the saucers would be too shallow, but if they work for you, I'm sure they'll work for me. Yay!
Flaviarose, do you have "regular" forsythia or the special cold weather variety? I have the latter, and, historically, the part that is under the snow blossoms and the top goes directly to leaf. This year, I had about six blossoms altogether, while other shrubs in the area are covered with gorgeous yellow. I don't want to pull it out because it screens the road, but face disappointment every blinking spring. Maybe covering it with burlap or something? Anyone ever see that?
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Juniper- it is an annual. I grabbed it quick at the nursery on my way home from the client site, as they were closing within 15 minutes. I usually get annuals for my pots anyways. I keep all the little plastic identifiers so I remember what I like and works and then can ask the next year for them. This one nursery has things I never see anywhere else. Maybe you can order some seeds and make your own if you cannot find any locally? Again, never seen one of these before and I have spent a lot of time in the green houses here!
Tomorrow I am going to the local herb festival with a fellow gardening friend. Will get some mint and other goodies for my herb pots! Always cool stuff there too!
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Well, I finally went out and looked at my forsythia. All those normally-blooming branches are dead! The leafing-out branches look fine. Are yours doing the same, FlaviaRose?
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thanks for the update jazzygirl! please keep posting photos. I'm battling an invasion of a horrible weed called "Bishop's Weed." It's everywhere and I'm having trouble getting rid of it. I don't use any pesticides or chemicals. I'll take a photo of it and will post it later (I'm off to get my first DEXA scan)
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Photo of the day- I bought this mexican primrose at the herb festival last year, and it established nicely over the summer. This year, is taking over! It is beautiful and filling around the zen garden areas in my back yard.
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Jazzy the Mexican Primrose looks great.!! it makes such a pretty splash of colour.! :-)
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