Showing posts with label wildflower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wildflower. Show all posts

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Journal Notes...Dig a Hole and Put a Plant in It.

I would have posted this earlier but I was so excited about my rose blooming...that I had created (well truly by nature).   Anyway, I am very good with computers...you may not think this is relevant but I am only an expert at one thing.......tax.   That does not mean that I know everything about taxation (because that would be a fearsome creature to behold).   But the reason why I mention computers...and as my ex-husband used to say....   I throw a bunch of sh** on the wall and see what sticks....   I never cared for his off-color language.  In any event, that is what I am attempting to do with my garden.  With 15 acres and my ebbs and flows of motivation, if I want a property full of flowers I have opted to use wildflowers...and lilies.  My wonderful Aunt Agnes gave me many, many lilies.  She even labeled them.  As we were unloading hers and was loading my container plants to her and my Mom, we got in the discussion of flowers.  Finally I said, " I think all flowers are beautiful."  She concurred and agreed.....she said "even weeds."  Sometimes I post about weeds and people take it the wrong way.   When I mean weed, I ASSURE you I do not mean anything other than plants that I did not plant.  (I HATE illicit drugs)...it annoys me to no end when people think I mean otherwise.  In any event, I finally was able to plant my most gracious Aunt's gifts.
I planted them with the others.  I, initially, planted these in mow-able blocks...but I found this to be a bit cumbersome.  I do not know if these are day lilies but I suspect not.  So given that they have a limited bloom time I planted things in between.

My Aunt Agnes' yard must be magnificent. I posted it in an earlier post.  I will go visit her gardens in full bloom so I can how beautiful they are in person.

Last fall, I went to Dollar General and bought up all the seeds that they put on sale.  I think I paid anywhere from 5 to 10 cents a pack.  What I do is dig a bunch of hole and put a few packs in.  What lives, lives, what doesn't I lost a nickel.

The arches I meant to actually be a wall.  So I bought a bunch of morning glory seed.  What I think I am going to do is mow here, plant a ton of packs of the morning glory seeds I have.  Run wire between the arches have morning glory fill it up...remember, I am clearly an amateur who had more ambition than motivation and knowledge.

My husband has bought some peat moss which I hope is the same as spanghum moss.  I am going to screen the bottom.  Put in a filler.   Finish screening the peacock and tack the jasmine.  Did I mention it's my 40th birthday on Sunday?

The jasmine is blooming.  I am thinking of putting english ivy on the trunk.  It will give a bicolor but I think that will be okay.



The pool cleared up a bit.

The roses are ablooming






Saturday, December 7, 2013

Journal Notes...Breaks, Weddings & Freezes

I have had an enormously buy week for unusual reasons.  Thanksgiving, license renewal, museum, freeze, burnout to name a few.  But I have learned to love winter break....I will be ramping up for a new garden season.  After three frost back to back, it has been in the 70's of course..with lots rain.  The fall trees are now revealing their colors.  I have been well..it's has been rejuvenating to think of other things.  Last winter, I was much worse...which implies a strong spring fever.


The Bradford Pear trees are as colorful as the red maples.


Ornamental trees in the front field


The cosmos finally burned I will probably cut them own shortly.
Red Maple is a beauty

Another wildflower be that has burned.

Will probably mow but not remove them.

Gallardia seeds

Loquat

No fruit though.

Climbing Blaze rose is faring very well... I think it likes the cold. 
Creek needs to be manicured.

Knockouts love the temps


Finally, I mentioned a wedding. I have a previous on the subject.  Click HERE. It appears my rose may host not only a wedding reception but provide the flowers.  This will be in the Fall....I am certain I'll mention it again. Lots to get going for next year...& next year will be the year of the Peacock... I'll be scarce  a bit then I will be full force like normal...... 

Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Colors Of Halloween

I think fall is late.  We have temps in the 80s and lows in the 60s.  Some signs of fall are showing.  When the days are short, I get very lethargic.  I use full spectrum lighting on my desk & the greenhouse to offset it.  But the flowers are showing no sign of stopping.  This is my second Halloween gardening.  But I have come to mark it as the end of the growing season (unofficially).  I am not going to put a lot of verbage in this post but I wanted to mark it...one day my gardens will be called, The Gardens of October so I want to know what's blooming on Halloween.
 
 I shot a ton of pics trying to catch these guys
 Cosmos
Lantana


Sumac turning


Marigolds fared very well

The next set of pictures are me chasing monarch butterflies.
















Zinnia




Loquat

 There is supposed be a bad storm coming in...so whether she likes it or not...Laura Cat has to come inside

 Alabama Beauty Camellias

 My future haunted looking tree...you should it grown....It's call Bill's Blue Deodra Cedar
Encores

Endless Summer Hydras

Memphis Music




Joseph's Coat

Pinata

Bottlebrush







 Cassia finally bloomed



I was not expecting these to bloom until spring....