tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49685195230992097022024-02-06T19:43:44.310-08:00The Writing ClosetWriting, gardening, critturs, periodically stalled by CFS.Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.comBlogger224125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-16365423451931936782020-08-01T00:43:00.000-07:002020-08-01T00:43:44.769-07:00Hello, August!<br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>1. Empress update.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">32 whopping inches! After averaging 6" growth each month since April, the Empress tree grew 8" this month.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>2. Creeping Jenny.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In our other gardens, Jenny elegantly draped the full height of her cracked blue pot. Our new back garden proved too sunny, her scraggly self not even filling the pot's top. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A coupla weeks ago, I moved her to partial shade. She's now begun her creep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a close up of her flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>3. Pumpkins.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With a bee photo bomb.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>4. Mirabalis.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://fredgardenerblog.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Fred</a> kindly sent me seeds for these & I've 3 very fine plants as a result. Some in bud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some in bloom.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>5. Hops flowers.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The buds've finally opened. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This isn't the flower I've seen on other hops, so hopefully there's more to follow, at least in terms of scent.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>6. Thalictrum Black Stocking.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a very slow start, the Black Stockings've bloom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ever so lovely from the back as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's all for this week. Thanks for stopping by.</span><br />
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<br />Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-7329896959236012962020-07-25T01:11:00.000-07:002020-07-25T01:11:18.915-07:00Week 30<br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1. Honeysuckle.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Aphids savaged the honeysuckle earlier this year, ruining all the blooms. With them gone, the honeysuckle's returned in pink & yellow vengeance.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">2. Heucherella.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">3. Crooked Veronica.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Step back.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">4. Valiant S&S fight.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of the methods tried, the most effective protection from S&S has been covering young plants at night until they're too big to be delicious. It's a twice daily pain that I'm always glad to see the end of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week, I came across some roof felt trimmings & cut them to size. They work like a dream at keeping slimy things off.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">5. Teddy Bear sunflowers.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even full grown, these are S&S favourites. As they're only 12" tall, I grew them in planters & found that those in metal containers stayed fairly untouched. Perhaps copper isn't the only deterrent to S&S marauders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The photo above is how they're advertised to look. There are, however, variations, some rather alarming.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">6. Unknown pest.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't quite figure out what's made its home in the curry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It doesn't appear to feed off the plants & admittedly, is rather cute, so I'm letting it stay for the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's it for this week. Thanks for stopping by.</span>Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-37362269522245214342020-07-18T00:14:00.000-07:002020-07-18T00:14:14.996-07:00Too Many to Love<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1. Salvia Strawberries & Cream.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've become a real salvia fan. The small flower details are so gorgeous.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">2. Thalictrum Black Stocking.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Earlier in the summer, when I bemoaned everyone else's thalictrum being in bloom, someone suggested perhaps the dry summer was the cause. Many waterings later, we've got buds.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">3. Rain lily.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another flower that's watered regularly. Never get tired of these guys.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">4. Surprise lily.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This tiny little guy sprouted next to the rain lily. I stopped growing these a few years ago because of red beetles. I do, however, recycle pot compost onto the flowerbeds, so perhaps an old lily came to life, thanks to care given the rain lily.</span><br />
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<b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">5. Woodwardia.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In most instances for me, a fern is a fern is a fern. Woodi's a little different, although I can't say why. I never get enough of his new growth. Saying that, his mature fronds are also gorgeous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This next photo was taken immediately after the first. The new fronds really play with the light, changing colour ever so slightly.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">6. Zinnia Queenie Lime.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I planted different varieties of zinnia in various spots in the garden. Universally, they've not done well this year, whereas last year, they were wild thangs. Even so, just look at this face as it wakes up. There's even a small heart at 10 o'clock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that's all for now. Thanks for stopping by.</span><br />
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Ever take a photo that turns out as something different but you like it better? Here's half a dozen examples.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Goldenrod & day lily.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Fuchsia.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">3. Fuchsia & allium.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">4. Achillea falling across daisy.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Border bouquet - hollyhock falling into achillea, sides of sea holly, lamb's ears, & sedum.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">6. Balloon vine escaping its cage.</span></b><br />
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<br />Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-1119772023732597492020-07-04T01:55:00.001-07:002020-07-04T01:55:16.479-07:00Onward, July!<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1. Chocolate Daisy.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both the flower & scent of this plant are reason enough to grow it, not to mention its sage coloured foliage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And wouldn't you know, it's got a lovely seed head as well. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>2. Rhodochiton Vine.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First year in our garden, & I didn't think the purply pink bells could delight me more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Until they did this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Rhodochiton's a tough little vine that's survived the high winds & drought. Best of all, the slugs aren't a bit interested in it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>3. O, Veronica.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't think Veronica did this last year, so'm not sure why she'd doing it now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A yellow achillea hangs 12" or more above it, but surely doesn't warrant such an extreme recoil. Interpretive dance, maybe.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>4. Russian sage.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just starting to flower. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The particular green of its foliage . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">. . . sets off well, the pink dianthus next to it</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>5. Verbena hastata.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The v. hastata's coming into bloom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All grown from seed off the original plant that didn't survive our wet winter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Any suggestions about getting keeping it alive this year?</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>6. Wild plum.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Usually, the wildlife's stripped off all the plums at this stage of the summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This lone plum's size surprises me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's it for this week. Thanks for stopping by.</span>Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-47503587251440108462020-06-27T00:40:00.000-07:002020-06-27T00:40:46.141-07:00End of June<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Hard to believe we're nearly halfway through the year, but here we are.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1. Monthly measure.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The empress tree was 12" when planted on 27 April.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So we're averaging 6"/ month.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">2. Bee stalking.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since I first noticed bees excavating my pots, I've been stalking them for videos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week, I finally caught one carrying its bit of leaf to the hole.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>3. Cornflower.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The lack of rain during No Mow May kept the mower in the shed until this week. Our singular gem from all that not-mowing, one trampled cornflower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This self seeded from last year's edible flower box, which we didn't repeat this year. I stuck a plant support around it for protection, gave it extra water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's still a bit of a shorty, but it does look happier. </span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>4. Poor canna.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Something less successful are my canna lilies. As an experiment, I left them in the ground over winter, heavily mulched.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They've all struggled with my abuse only to become S&S snacks despite my best garlic spray. This is the smallest at only a few inches, although I'm happy to see it, having assumed it to be dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This autumn, all the survivors'll get lifted & lovingly cossetted over the winter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>5. Pretty weed surprise.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last week, I featured a self seeder that'd captured my heart. This week, there was a little pink surprise at its base.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year, this trough contained rain lilies, which I thought I'd moved to the flower beds.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><b>1. Doodle Pool, Part I.</b></span><br />
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The pool is essential kit for Mlle DoodleFace, but it's not the most attractive thing you can have in the garden. Last year, I decided to tart it up with water plants. Bit of a crazy idea, even by my standards, but it's turned out well.<br />
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This is Season 2, The Doodle Pool.<br />
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The split bamboo has always been in it as a life raft for passing wildlife.<br />
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I'd seen a photo of Creeping Jenny in a floating planter, the fronds spreading on top of the water. Mine've always sunk, but this year, they're invading the bullrushes to the right.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Doodle Pool, Part II.</span></b><br />
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Water lily on the left.<br />
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Water lily on the right.<br />
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Both lilies've produced more leaves & flowers this year, so must be happy.<br />
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The honey garlic's formed turrets of seed heads.<br />
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The flowers are striking but the seed heads are out of a fairy tale.<br />
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These've self seeded all over my garden, so I let one show its stuff.<br />
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I quite like it, although it seems like something that could soon take over.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Tale of 2 roses.</span></b><br />
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I missed pruning some new growth from the (presumably) dog rose rootstock of our yellow rose.<br />
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The dog rose stems & foliage are very different, so not sure how I missed it . . .<br />
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Our 2nd summer here, I've found our first toad, this one being in the open front garden. Where it came from is hard to say, as there isn't open water nearby. Maybe someone raised tadpoles then released them.<br />
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As the back garden is walled in, I'd thought of collecting tadpoles for the Doodle Pool, but was concerned about being over run by inbred toads. Any thoughts?<br />
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And with that image, I leave you for this week. Thanks for stopping by.<br />
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<br />Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-79427609994287219102020-06-12T23:54:00.001-07:002020-06-12T23:54:11.874-07:00Keeping It Interesting<br />
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For your edification, 6 things in the garden that were new or unexpected.<br />
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Last week, I posted a video of a bee excavating one of my pots. When I later planted the pot's seedling, 2 leaf cylinders dropped out.<br />
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These, I very gently buried in the loose dirt next to the seedling, in hopes that I haven't killed the bees inside.<br />
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Several weeks ago, I moved a hebe from a pot into the ground. I hadn't thought transplant shock was a worry when taking plants from a pot, but before long, the hebe looked truly dead.<br />
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Just in case it was playing 'possum, I left it there & set some small pots around it to hide the ugly.<br />
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I featured this some weeks ago because it'd produced buds for the first time, & man, there were a lot of them.<br />
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While the bush itself looks healthy, the buds subsequently shrivelled up.<br />
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The reading I've done indicates smoke bush don't like to be too well fed, so here may be the problem. Hopefully I'll remember that next year. Still a beauty, but I'd love it to flower.<br />
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These were grown from seed last year in hopes of adding a new scent to the garden. Although they were supposed to be 18" tall, they only reached about 6" The flowers being so close to the ground made it difficult for me to get a good sense of their smell.<br />
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This year, the same plants are about 12" tall & a bit bushier . . .<br />
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. . . with more of these fascinating flowers on them.<br />
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Now I detect a subtle chocolate scent, overridden by a strong honey smell, which makes a really nice combination. It'll be interesting to see how they perform next year.<br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><b>5. Columbine Different Drummer.</b></span><br />
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The yellow & white columbine've been blooming for weeks, the flowers about 3"x4" in size. Then this lone fella appeared on one of them, a cuckoo in the nest.<br />
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When this odd ball flowering happened to one of my peles, the nursery said that sometimes a single flower will revert back to the plant's forebearer. I didn't ask why this happens, so'm not sure if it's passed to the seed. I've marked this bloom just in case, though I'm not convinced I like it.<br />
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Only planted last autumn, so first time seeing it bloom. Here's the bud just getting some colour to it . . .<br />
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. . . and here's a flower about halfway opened. Quirkly looking little thing.<br />
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<br />Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-57361874990560798592020-06-05T23:37:00.000-07:002020-06-06T00:49:40.000-07:00Renewal<br />
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A wet winter & our clay soil cost me a few plants this year, so I've been glad of the ones that've renewed our friendship.<br />
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But let's start with the renewal of a garden species rather than a single plant.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Miner bee (video).</span></b><br />
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I presume I can plant this seedling without disturbing the nest, but if someone thinks not, please let me know.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Fuchsia.</span></b><br />
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I'm amazed this grows in the Doodle Pool. Shows how easily you can have elegance.<br />
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These were grown from seed 3 summers ago. <br />
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I thought they were biennials, but apparently not, as they also bloomed last year. Not that I'm complaining.<br />
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From the amount of buds, it's going to be a glorious display.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Runaway Bride.</span></b><br />
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Last year, I got 2 very young hydrangea Runaway Brides. While they didn't bloom, they did grow. This spring, I put them in larger pots . . .<br />
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I hoped against hope that Woodie'd survived the winter, but the fiddleheads stopped growing at about 2" tall.<br />
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The metallic new growth'll turn green like last year's fronds in the background.<br />
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Our witchy calendar says May is the month to dress your well. As dry as this month has been, I'm very glad we aren't dependent on a well, dressed or otherwise.<br />
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While there's no rain forecast for the next fortnight, the garden this week has reminded me of hope. Things which I'd given up on, have redeemed themselves.<br />
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So perhaps, too, we shall see rain.<br />
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Now let's do this thang.<br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><b>1. Dog Rose.</b></span><br />
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This self seeded in a flower bed around 7 years ago but'd never flowered. I'd decided if it didn't produce this year, it was going to be guerilla gardened out of my life.<br />
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Apparently threats work with roses.<br />
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I'd expected white but am delighted that it's pink.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Bramble buds.</span></b><br />
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Last year, the bramble from next door was left to cover the fence & provide support for the new hops until said hops matured. This the bramble did, but it didn't produce a single flower.<br />
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With last year's bramble growth still in place, that was all the hops support necessary, so I determined if there were no berries on the bramble this year, I cut it at the base, leaving the dead wands in place as a hops trellis.<br />
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We've at least got flower buds - lots of them - so hopefully berries to follow. Another plant that responds to threats.<br />
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When El Punko's guitar died, it couldn't be fixed & no one wanted it for parts. This week, he decided he was tired of it taking up room in his office. I offhandedly said that it'd make an interesting trellis.<br />
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Later that same day, he-who-never-gardens surprised me.<br />
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There are rhodochiton, thunbergia, & Japanese anemone planted at the base of this wall, which he assures me won't clash with the brilliant red of that guitar. We shall see.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">4. Deutzia purchased as raspberry sundae, but an image search says, no.</span></b><br />
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Not that many weeks ago, I shared the unthinkable on Twitter - that I'd fallen out of love with my deutzia. The flowers were pale & lacklustre at the time. Most unfortunate, as it wasn't the deutzia's inner self I loved.<br />
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But the flowers darkened, so now my zest is back.<br />
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I don't remember it doing that last year. Let's hope I remember it next year.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Ricinus.</span></b><br />
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I've lost count, the number of castor seeds I've planted this year with no results. Even as we speak, there's a warm tray of them in the dark, thinking about whether to make an appearance.<br />
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Imagine my delight when I found this self-seeder growing next to one of last year's ricinus stumps.<br />
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The late ricinus had been shorter than others planted across the garden, so I decided to move this seedling to a better spot. However, I couldn't extricate it, so lifted the ricinus corpse for better access.<br />
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The seedling came with it & seemed attached to its dead ancestor. Even though these leaves don't look like new growth on an old plant, I decided to relocate them together rather than risk damaging the seedling's roots.<br />
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There shall be weird ricinus flowers in our garden this year.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">6. Honey garlic.</span></b><br />
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I'll close with the honey garlic, that speaks for itself. (The videos loads faster if you full screen it.)<br />
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It's been a week of high temperatures & rough winds, neither of which've done away with the need for nightly S&S patrols.<br />
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While I water & shade & rid the world of slimy things, the garden gets on with it.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Wild chamomile.</span></b><br />
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Nigella self seeds around the place, so when a delicate foliage started up in the appletini pot, I didn't give it much notice at first. Then its structure began to say, this ain't nigella.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Plants in cages.</span></b><br />
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I inherited these 2 cages, so haven't a clue what they originally oppressed. They're just the right size for orange juice containers. As the cages have no bottoms, the boxes are held in place with plastic chopsticks (the red bits underneath).<br />
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They're planted with thunbergia which hopefully will cover the juice boxes, although actually, I don't mind the coloured panels that much.<br />
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One grows up its little stick while the other's trying to get through the bars.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">3. Germination woes</span></b><br />
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It's been a rough year for getting some seeds to grow, I think because I'm still learning how to manage the intense heat in the garden. Some plants stop after throwing out a root, or they send up a sliver of green leaf that dies if I turn my back for an instant. Some do nothing at all. <br />
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I've done 2nd, 3rd, 4th plantings & usually got something in the end, but the mimosa refused to play ball. <br />
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This week, the third mimosa planting produced 2 little guys. If they get to 2nd leaves, then they'll probably make it.<br />
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My sweet peas went bust this year. The edible peas have a huge gap in their row & are only about 15" tall.<br />
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But my word, they're covered in flowers.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Scabiosa cousin.</span></b><br />
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When I inherited cephalaria gigantea in a garden several years ago, I hadn't a clue what it was called. It became known as the scabiosa cousin, even after we were properly introduced. <br />
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My current one is in bud.<br />
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The cirsium's been blooming for nearly 2 months now, so well worth its spot in the garden.<br />
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But the seed head is especially beautiful. I quite like this plant.<br />
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With the temps falling out of the 20s today, it's time to pick up the dog clippers & take on the 2 woolly mammoths who've moved in during lock down. There shall be many treats & great escapes in my day's work.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Verbena hastata.</span></b><br />
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I fell hard when I saw my first v. hastata in other SoS gardens last year, so of course, got one. I didn't know if it'd survive winter outside, so collected seeds, not all that sure they'd germinate.<br />
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The parent plant did die over winter but the seeds germinated too well, & not only by my efforts. They self seeded the flowerbed as well.<br />
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So I've now got a kazillion baby hastata plants. Handsome little dudes, aren't they?<br />
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The round first leaves really impressed me with their vigour, but the pointed second leaves knocked my socks off. Pretty striking seedlings, to be sure.<br />
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For a more conventional beauty, here's this gorgeous thang. I haven't a clue what it is, but every year, it takes my breath away.<br />
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Although there's 4-5 plants in the bed now, I've only ever had 1 flower stalk a year. Some irises bloom once, then produce a new plant that'll bloom the next year, so perhaps this is one of those type irises. I hope that at some stage, there'll be enough babies having babies that we get more than one flower stalk. <br />
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Here's a close up of the flower. Just love those colours together.<br />
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The appletini trees are still producing their beautiful russet new growth, while the mature leaves've turned green.<br />
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From a distance, the little appletinis themselves look black, creating a wonderful contrast with the leaves. Here, they look like unripened blueberries, but they're actually a very dark brown. Handsome indeed.<br />
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And Mr BigNoseDog ain't that bad looking, either.<br />
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At the other end of the life cycle, the dying c. Carnaby blossom.<br />
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Miss Havisham's got nothing on this fading beauty.<br />
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An established Empress tree can grow 2.5 metres in a year. When I planted this one on 27 April, she was 12" tall.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you next time.Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-4988421197453183822020-05-08T23:09:00.000-07:002020-05-08T23:09:56.969-07:00Blooms, Buds, & a Buddy<div>
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Pot mates Lord Bute & Aztec are both blooming.</div>
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This year, no miscanthus seedlings either, but an ivy-leaf toadflax did appear in one of the cells. When it bloomed, it earned a pot of its own, now called Gill's pot.</div>
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Way back in January while suffering an incapacitating case of rhodo envy, I discovered the first ever bud on my young Scarlet Wonder. It has 10 now, one of which started its grand opening this week.</div>
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Last week, I mentioned some dead sticks that'd once been a lovely fuchsia. I lifted it for a gardening friend who got ill, so I replanted it, after which all the leaves dropped off.</div>
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With no hose attachment during April's dry spell, the water level fell in the Doodle pool, exposing more of the bamboo life raft. Birds began to prefer the pool to the bee water bowls set around the garden, perhaps feeling safer off the ground & having more plant cover. The segmented bamboo also provided a nice little bath tub.</div>
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Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-83294507404533176732020-05-02T01:04:00.001-07:002020-05-02T01:04:50.385-07:00Giving In, Getting Curried, Blessed Rain<b><i><span style="color: cyan;">Six on Saturday is a weekly diary hosted by The Propagator & contributed to by gardeners all over the world. For links to other SoS blogs, check out Mr P's <a href="https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/02/six-on-saturday-02-05-2020/" target="_blank">comments</a> & the Twitter hashtag, #SixOnSaturday.</span></i></b><br />
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The tap connector broke off inside the hose during our recent dry spell.<br />
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Obviously, I can't walk into a store with the broken bit & get it replaced.<br />
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We measured in imperial & metric, emailed photos & got back false assurances that THIS connector would fit. Repeatedly.<br />
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It rained during the wait for Connector #5 to arrive. I was a little bit happy.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Good morning!</span></b><br />
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Ah, that familiar morning greeting at this time of year . . .<br />
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. . . followed by the twice daily shuffle to facilitate hardening off.<br />
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I love, love, love bear's breeches, but as our shady borders are so dark, chose a variegated one destined to have pink flowers - White Water, perhaps?<br />
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It didn't bloom last year & Mr P warned that his never did. Love the foliage anyway, as it does brighten up that dark little corner. Hopefully it gets taller, even if it doesn't bloom.<br />
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Last summer, our first here, the back garden got so hot, the house doors wouldn't close. Plants sizzled that should never sizzle in the UK. We planted climbers over every possible surface, but a nice tree was needed.<br />
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I resisted that idea because we rent, but already the back garden feels like the US south. The best place for a tree is where the beehive composter sat, giving some shade while leaving the majority of the garden to sunbathe.<br />
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I planted an Empress Tree, one of 4 grown from seed collected in a local park. They're the fastest growing hardwood tree there is, which tipped me in its favour. At the moment, it's 12" tall, & shall be measured frequently to see if it grows as fast as they say.<br />
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You may've noticed the curry plants next to the beehive's original spot. I've spent days smelling of curry, thanks to the cardigan I wore during the move. It's been fabulous.<br />
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The beehive is used for storing trugs & plastic bottles of stuff, thus easily relocated. The dead sticks in front are a fuchsia dug up for a gardening friend who got the virus (she recovered). The fuchsia's yet to let me know if it survived being replanted.<br />
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Behind, grows the 'Fox Meadow' - essentially 3 very tall plants in a very small area.<br />
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Back in March, I knew I'd remember which seed got planted in the little square pot & which in the little round pot. Being the cognitive giant that I am, I did not.<br />
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Only one germinated. So if you please, is it Datura or Rude Becky? Here's the top of the leaves . . .<br />
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This little fella really surprised me by blooming. Not a one of his friends looks close to opening yet.<br />
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These plants give more than they expect back. Stick 'em in the ground & they just get on with it, in colours to knock your socks off. My kinda plant. If only they lasted longer!<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. To its own devices.</span></b><br />
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This bed hasn't been touched since last autumn & it's doing fine without me. Keep in mind, this was lawn when I started last spring, which shows what plants'll do if left to it.<br />
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There's self seeded forget-me-nots in the back, a swath of yellow calendula to the left, self seeded from a few starters last year. The foliage in front of them is allium getting ready to open, with the spirea to their right. Along the bottom, a coupla dark orange calendula, again self seeded, & one red tulip photobomb. That dot of pink among the bamboo sticks is the beginnings of the sweet stock. Lastly, an achillea in front of the sweet stock & some type of iris below that.<br />
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Not garden show quality, but very nice to work next to while I'm . . .<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Fire pit bed.</span></b><br />
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. . . edging the fire pit bed.<br />
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Amazing how much the brickwork grows over in one season when you don't trim after each mow.<br />
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The acers've been similarly low maintenance, beyond getting fed. Here's the red one . . .<br />
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. . . and here's the whatever colour you might call this. Neon fire, perhaps.<br />
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These were the 2 for £5 some of us got last autumn. Really pleased with them.<br />
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P. Aztec has begun its bloom cycle.<br />
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When re-potting the pellies a coupla weeks ago, I decided to put Aztec in with Lord Bute, as they bloomed at the same time last year.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Queen of the mattress spring trellis.</span></b><br />
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The most exciting thing about getting a new mattress is being able to dissect the old one for the springs. It stymied me slightly to learn that 10 years ago, mattress springs were individually packaged.<br />
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Un-pocketing them is nice mindless work that ultimately keeps the mattress out of the landfill AND provides trellis material for the berry wands.<br />
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I wasn't quite sure how to connect them, so made it a project to do between other more pressing things, trying out this idea, that idea. Then the wands shot up & quick action was needed, so I've been trellising like mad. The best trellis making method is as yet undiscovered.<br />
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Mlle DoodleFace's pool has always sported a bamboo rescue ramp for critturs that might fall in. Last year, I planted Creeping Jenny & London Pride in it . . .<br />
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. . . both of which are looking healthy & colourful at the moment. The basket is filled with miniature bullrushes.<br />
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Here's a close up of the little fuzzy cat tails, about the size of my pinky finger nail.<br />
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Hope this finds everyone well & able to source compost.<br />
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It's been a week of good things in the garden, including a propagation boom.<br />
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The tulips keep flowering like mad. A carer brings clients on their daily walk to see the ones in our front garden. I clutch my rosary & throw holy water at them from the upstairs window. Thanks to me, we're all still healthy.<br />
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This fig tree has always been cantankerous. It grew crooked, produced scant foliage & seemed disinterested in the delicacies fed to it. It'd always given wonderful figs though, until the last 2 years when it didn't even do that.<br />
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Putting up with its snit has paid off.<br />
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Surprisingly, we had another romanesco harvest this week, from a few straggler plants that last time I reported, hadn't produced anything. The heads were smaller, but just as healthy as the earlier ones.<br />
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These were planted mid-summer last year, &'ve given us veg all winter. We'll not be planting any this year, as there's plenty still in the freezer.<br />
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Well worth trying as a winter crop.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">3. O, those lavenders.</span></b><br />
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Some of you were surprised when I moaned about a free gift of 8 lavender plants. The problem for me is that at this stage of the game, I have very little upper body strength. Wherever they went would require digging - a project that would easily take a week or more for me. A lot of work for 8 plants at a time when there's tons to do in the garden.<br />
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Then I happened upon a Twitter convo where Charles Dowding said even grass didn't need to be dug up. I remembered that every bed in my garden was lawn only a year & several layers of cardboard ago.<br />
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So here's the lavender site before I started (with one last Romanesco amongst the garlic in the closest bed).<br />
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I mowed on the lowest setting in front of both raised beds, leaving the yarrow, as I like how it looked last year in front of the containers. This done in full knowledge the yarrow may get unruly, after which I may decide I'm an idiot.<br />
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Next, 8 little holes made with the edging tool.<br />
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A coupla layers of fleece sheets from our weekly food box . . .<br />
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. . . which was then covered with home made compost. They'll be slightly ugly for this summer but, based on how the other beds've developed, will look as if they've always been here by next year.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">4. Lucky dip clematis #2.</span></b><br />
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Last week's lucky dip <a href="https://lorahughes.blogspot.com/2020/04/chocolate-weekend.html" target="_blank">clematis</a> had been accurately predicted by Thorncroft to be c. Tae. This week's was meant to be c. Carnaby. I do believe that educated guess is also correct.<br />
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It's not as spectacular as c. Tae, but still very pretty & best of all, covered in buds & blooms. They start out dark, like the ones on the right, then gradually become more white stripped as they open. The first one to open is 2nd from the left.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Fritillaria.</span></b><br />
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My shrub planter flooded during the winter, & I was pleased when a few of the bulbs survived.<br />
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I'd expected a slithering of snake heads, but half a dozen motley survivors will do.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">6. Surprise!</span></b><br />
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The bed that's only a few yards from the shrub planter doesn't seem to've minded the wet winter. I've got 2 large groupings of these things. From their head shape, I guess them to allium. From their location, a type able to grow in partial shade.<br />
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I remember buying such an allium, but don't remember what they look like. The answer lies in my receipt box, but I'd rather not spoil the surprise. Possibly, we'll see them next week.<br />
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And that's a few of the happy events in my garden for this week.<br />
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So glad you stopped by.<br />
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Stay healthy. Avoid humans - they're the worst. Wash your hands & moisturise.<br />
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See you next time!Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-55609959688723538392020-04-11T01:46:00.000-07:002020-04-11T01:46:19.696-07:00Chocolate Weekend<b><i><span style="color: cyan;">Six on Saturday is a weekly diary hosted by The Propagator & contributed to by gardeners all over the world. For links to other SoS blogs, check out Mr P's <a href="https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/six-on-saturday-11-04-2020/" target="_blank">COMMENTS</a> & the Twitter hashtag, #SixOnSaturday.</span></i></b><br />
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I quite like the art in our family calendar with its monthly witchy themes.<br />
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April, it alleges, is meant to overwhelm us with seasonal change.<br />
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Rather than being overwhelmed, I'm gleefully catching up on projects meant for last autumn.<br />
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So let's do this SoS thang.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Clematis reveal.</span></b><br />
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Last week left you on the edge of your seats, wondering what the first of the Thorncroft Lucky Dip clematis would be. Rumour has it, some of you've been driven to drink by suspense.<br />
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Clematis Tae, it is. Sadly, it has only 1 flower. Next year. Next year. Can you imagine the impact it'll have?<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Brunnera Jack Frost.</span></b><br />
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This guy has been blooming for weeks, but keeps getting pushed to the back of the SoS queue because my camera washes out the blue. In this snap, some flowers around the edges show true.<br />
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I've got 2 of these in the garden. Since coming to us 3 summers ago, they bloom like crazy every year.<br />
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For anyone not familiar with Jack, his leaves get much larger once he's done blooming. He's great for shade, & looks fabulous under-planting shrubs.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">3. Salix helvetica (aka Swiss willow).</span></b><br />
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This old friend is bursting with new foliage & catkins.<br />
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The leaves are fuzzy at the moment, but'll turn a silvery green.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">4. Edging the walk.</span></b><br />
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One of those chores not done last autumn.<br />
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While I'm not overly keen on straight lines, I do like a tidy path.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Weigela neglect.</span></b><br />
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When cleaning up a flower bed, I found this poor little guy. He's got beautiful foliage & dark purple flowers when they come, so you'd think he'd've been better treated.<br />
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And indeed, he'd gotten planted in a nice, prominent place when we first moved in last year. As the summer progressed & his blooms spent, my attention strayed to flashier, taller plants. The bed got extended to accommodate them. Next thing you know, weigela'd been forgotten at the back.<br />
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To prevent this happening again, I've lifted him until a more suitable spot is found.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">6. Scavenging.</span></b><br />
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Despite snatching a picnic basket out of the bin man's hands a few weeks ago, I don't usually sort through my neighbour's rubbish. However, when I saw this poor fellow on the kerb, I stepped in.<br />
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It'd be easy to come up with a sorrowful tale about a Christmas tree in April, especially during a pandemic. I'm going to believe this was left after a student flat got cleaned out. In addition to the bulbs & that thin wire of lights, the tree's covered in gold glitter. A bit blinding when the sun hits it.<br />
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The needles are incredibly fine & soft. New growth is visible in the first photo, but the tree's also covered in little brown cones. Perfect.<br />
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Here it is, re-potted in a spare bucket. <br />
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So that's my week.<br />
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My spidey sense tells me there's chocolate hidden somewhere in this house. Wonder if I'll have to wait until tomorrow for it?<br />
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Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope to see you again real soon.<br />
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We're all still healthy & waiting for the wildlife to take over our neighbourhood.<br />
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In addition to enjoying the reek of fox musk each morning, we heard an owl the other night, a first since we've moved here.<br />
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Unfortunately, no sightings of goats or deer or wild boar. A few bolshie cats, but of the domestic kind.<br />
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However, there have been other delights in the garden this week.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Pear update.</span></b><br />
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The Louis Bonne buds've opened.<br />
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His pollination mate, Invincible, is just in leaf bud.<br />
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Last year, Louis managed 3 pears on his own, so hopefully we'll see fruit without help from Invincible.<br />
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As to Invincible himself, I assumed one of his 2 bloom flushes would coincide with Louis for pollination purposes. Since Invincible was bare root a short 6 months ago, perhaps that's behind his lack of flowers.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Appletini.</span></b><br />
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Supporting this theory are the appletinis who came to us 2 winters ago. They spent last year healthy enough but produced no flowers. At the moment, they're both covered in buds.<br />
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Flowers've even opened on one of them at a place where the sun first hits it. O, my heart.<br />
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The bronze foliage should turn green as summer progresses.<br />
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Some time ago, I got 3 Thorncroft lucky dip clematis - clematis that'd lost their labels so were reduced in price. Two of the three were in bud & one of those has begun to open.<br />
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Thorncroft suggested this might be early bloomer c. Tae. You can see a tiny bit of pink inside, so they could be right! Quite beautiful at the moment, whoever she is.<br />
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For reasons known only to herself, Mlle DoodleFace has changed her entry point into the Doodle pool. Her new route takes her over the only Queen of the Prairie patch in the garden.<br />
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I replaced the Queen with bricks - they had to go in at an angle, due to the aster roots on either side. The plan is that the mass of day lilies on the right & some bamboo sticks soon to be on the left will keep Doodle paws on bricks.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Queen of resilience.</span></b><br />
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I moved the flattened Queen to a small meadow area near the compost bin where no Doodle ever strays.<br />
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Two days later, she looked almost normal again, except for the bit at 11:00.<br />
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I was chuffed at being able to get those boxes into their brackets. Delighted to find the missing thalia growing in them. And now . . .<br />
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. . . the tulips are up!<br />
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So there they are, 5 garden delights & one Doodle remedy.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you're all healthy & coping. Cake helps. Drink, too, I suppose. Our neighbours smoke a lot of dope, & I've begin to wonder if we aren't high all the time, as well.<br />
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At any hoot, see you again soon.Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-46048488870308749512020-03-28T02:03:00.001-07:002020-03-28T02:03:52.672-07:00Good Mow-ntal Health<b><i><span style="color: cyan;">Six on Saturday is a weekly diary hosted by The Propagator & contributed to by gardeners all over the world. For links to other SoS blogs, check out Mr P's <a href="https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/28/six-on-saturday-28-03-2020/" target="_blank">comments</a> & the Twitter hashtag, #SixOnSaturday.</span></i></b><br />
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First off, we're all healthy.<br />
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We went into self-isolation before the lock down (a friend got sick), so're old pros at this stage. The streets are quiet, pets are delighted, & our spirits are mostly good.<br />
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Yesterday, though, that one sad story too many came up in my Twitter feed.<br />
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<i>Get thee behind me, Social Media</i>, & out the door I went to find the lawn had been mowed by some kind family member. They even circumvented the crocus foliage.<br />
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Better'n Valium.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Birthday rose.</span></b><br />
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Before our self-isolation, I had yet another birthday. I've had so many already, but can't give them up as I do love cake. So came the rose in a tiny zebra planter - 2 blooms, 1 bud. (Unmown grass apparent in background.)<br />
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This week, it got a bigger pot.<br />
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Both flowers've gone & the bud's starting to open. (And lawn nicely mowed.)<br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><b>2. Great expectations.</b></span><br />
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This dead stick cost £1.79, but I've got high hopes for it.<br />
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Two years ago, there I was, an old blow-in who'd never heard of a Tamarix tree. Then this beautiful pink thing started flirting with me over the fence & ye SoSers willingly provided the requisite introduction. Just goes to show, you're never too old for love. Or perhaps obsession.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">3. Lavender. </span></b><br />
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I got a couple of other things in the Tamarix sale, so the nursery offered me a choice of begonia or lavender as a free gift. Begonias are coming out of my ears, so . . .<br />
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. . . what the hell am I going to do with 8 lavender plants?<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">4. O my mahonia.</span></b><br />
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Last autumn, I found 2 mahonia seedlings when I cleaned up the pumpkin patch. After getting potted up, one took off like a barn on fire. The other looked like this. Ok, it's dead, but I didn't want to pull it up & officially murder it.<br />
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So I brought it inside, sowed nicotina seeds in the pot (seen above). If you look very closely, you'll also see . . .<br />
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. . . there's new growth coming up from the mahonia's middle stem.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Volunteer clematis.</span></b><br />
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This clematis self seeded in one of my tree pots a couple of years ago. Last year, it graduated to its own pot & had 2-3 flowers on it. I was ridiculously excited about it.<br />
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This year, a lot more buds. I am giddy for the show.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">6. Anemone coronaria The Bride.</span></b><br />
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I stole Sarah Raven's suggested planting of a. coronaria The Bride with a. blanda White Splendour . . .<br />
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. . . but added grape hyacinth to the mix. Unfortunately, only about half The Brides came up, none of White Splendour. The grape hyacinth are knocking it out of the park, though.<br />
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So, please imagine, if you will, all those empty spaces filled with large & small white anemone blooms.<br />
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That's it for this week. I hope all of you stay well & haven't had to kill off any housemates as yet. May they do nice things for you in the garden instead.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you again soon.<br />
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Our calendar declares March the month of promise - spring will come.<br />
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Here are Six promises from my garden.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Big black planter.</span></b><br />
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Over winter, the small shrub planter flooded, causing worry for everything living there. This week, I've got a better picture of the damage.<br />
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At top left, the very healthy loropetalum. Moving right, only one epimedium survived, & several (but not all) of the fritillaria are pressing on. In the middle, hosta Big Daddy unfurls from the stick of his 2019 self. Near the dead leaf at the far end, those bits of straw are the gillenia who is hopefully only sulking.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Tulips.</span></b><br />
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They're all right on the edge of colour.<br />
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I expect we'll be seeing a lot of SoS tulips in the coming weeks.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">3. Moss.</span></b><br />
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A few weeks ago, someone explained moss propagation. Unfortunately, I don't remember whom to credit.<br />
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However, when the garden wall grew hair, I was so excited to know why. So whomever you are, a big thanks for adding to my garden knowledge. (Louis Bonne on the right, still full of promise.)<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">4. Empress.</span></b><br />
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Last year, pots got shuffled in our move & identities lost. I asked SoSers to ID the plant below which at the time, was only a clutch of leaves. No one knew, but I eventually remembered . . .<br />
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. . . it's an Empress tree seedling cum sapling. Ten were germinated from a seed pod collected in a public park a few years back when I didn't know they were invasive.<br />
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Four survived the Beast from the East, all of which are in dramatic reveals now. They've never bloomed, but perhaps this will be the year.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Hops.</span></b><br />
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This vine only came to live with us last year, so I didn't know what to expect in its spring awakening.<br />
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They look like languishing asparagus. This didn't bloom last year either, but I am ever so hopeful.<br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><b>6. My promise.</b></span><br />
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This poor owl got battered by one of the storms. I've promised to secure him more firmly but've only managed to set him upright as I walk by. Inevitably, he falls down again.<br />
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He looks to be inspecting the akebia which is now opening, so perhaps he isn't too unhappy.<br />
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That's all the promises I've got for the week. May this find everyone healthy & safe.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you again soon.<br />
<br />Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-44350165162754961552020-03-14T01:28:00.000-07:002020-03-14T01:28:05.417-07:00Discoveries!<b><i><span style="color: cyan;">Six on Saturday is a weekly diary hosted by The Propagator & contributed to by gardeners all over the world. For links to other SoS blogs, check out Mr P's <a href="https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/14/six-on-saturday-14-03-202/" target="_blank">comments</a> & the Twitter hashtag, #SixOnSaturday.</span></i></b><br />
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It's been a week of discoveries in the garden, including the misplaced Thalia<br />
<= possibly being located.<br />
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O, the intrigue a faulty memory provides.<br />
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On to this week, so!<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Daffs.</span></b><br />
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These popped up in the akebia planter where they've lived for 3 springs, now. They were a free gift for some plant order, along with a few other daff bulbs.<br />
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While I'm not sure the right one's good for pollinators, it's certainly a stunner. The left one does all the things a daffodil should do, & with great style.<br />
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The discovery here (for me) is that both these fellas look good from behind, too.<br />
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The white against the peach & yellow & green . . . it takes my breath.<br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><b>2. My newest crush.</b></span><br />
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Every morning, Mr BigNose & myself hand Mlle DoodleFace over to her walker, then sidle s-l-o-o-o-w-l-y back the way we came, taking the walk featured here last week. Though you can't tell from the snap below, the plum tree at the far left is still very much in bloom.<br />
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The discovery, however, has to do with the large variegated holly in the centre of the photo.<br />
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Earlier this week, I caught a sweet citrusy scent just as I came up to the holly, so stopped & saw a bit of colour.<br />
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A camellia covered in buds & blooms. Trust me, I'm coveting big time.<br />
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The folk living there are dog people we meet on the BigNose walk, so I might be able to beg cuttings.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">3. Appletini brown.</span></b><br />
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A pair of appletinis came to live with us two Christmases ago. They didn't bloom last year, but end of summer, they were duly promoted to larger pots & fed like they were going to slaughter.<br />
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There's no sign of flower buds, but the leaves've begun to unfurl in the most delicious colour. I didn't notice this last year, undoubtedly because we'd just moved & I had other things on my mind. Absolutely adore the russet brown of that leaf on the right.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">4. Loro (petalum).</span></b><br />
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In a large planter out front are 3 small shrubs including the famous Loropetalum which blooms twice a year for me (& anyone else who has one).<br />
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Usually, I zoom in on her flamingo-pink witch hazel flowers, but thought this time I'd show her structure & varied foliage. IRL, the red-purple leaves are slightly more intense in colour, a nice complement to the greeny-black leaves over the startling flecks of pink blossoms.<br />
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One of the neighbours put this old picnic basket out for the bin men this week.<br />
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Looks like a great place to grow annuals.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">6. Pear worries.</span></b><br />
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We've 2 cordoned pears in the garden => Invincible on left & Louis Bonne on right.<br />
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Louis produces green pears great for cooking but not my preference for eating raw. After 3 summers, I decided to leave him behind when we move, so planted him in the ground. Full of promise at the moment, he's marvelous in bloom, which is why he's not been given away to some allotment holder.<br />
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Invincible came to us last autumn as bare root & was planted in a pot until his fate is decided. His fruit will be blushed yellow, which I do prefer in a raw pear. He's also alleged to have 2 spring bloomings as a protection against late frost.<br />
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And those are our discoveries for the week.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you again soon.<br />
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<br />Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4968519523099209702.post-51541243511001289882020-03-07T00:24:00.001-08:002020-03-07T00:48:51.821-08:00The Big Nose Dog Walk<br />
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Our younger dog, Mlle DoodleFace, has always needed to run with the hounds. When she & her walker go off with the GSDs & Labs, Mr Big Nose & I do a more sedate sniff-&-lift kinda walk. The stuff of terriers.<br />
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We used to go to the woods, but over winter, he's slowed down markedly, restricting us to nearby communal green areas.<br />
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The council does a great job with these spaces, & the neighbours've taken ownership of them.<br />
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Since the gardening week's been all about chores, I thought I'd show you six of the many things we see on our walk.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Plum tree.</span></b><br />
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Directly across from the house is what I think's a plum tree, but tell me if I'm wrong.<br />
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The footpath underneath is littered in petals. Over winter, it was slick with leaves until 2 neighbour women gathered them up in bags about a fortnight ago.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Forsythia.</span></b><br />
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Even so, the forsythia do bring flecks of yellow to an otherwise dark spot. Mr BN is unimpressed.<br />
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The path leads into a green area with a lovely collection of shrubs & trees, including a magnolia . . .<br />
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. . . and a standard cotoneaster.<br />
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Although the bottom half of the cotoneaster is heavy in berries, the top half has been totally stripped.<br />
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There's a new bee box staked next to one of the trees.<br />
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Since it's inside the tree's fencing, I'd assume it'd been put up by the council. Then a precariously perched bird box appeared in another tree. Not sure it meets council safety codes.<br />
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The neighbours do add flowers to the council beds, so perhaps some non-council worker put up the boxes, too.<br />
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One of the nearby front gardens has a large hydrangea in it that hosts a bird nest.<br />
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Various bits of plastic are woven with the sticks & moss. The structure looks like it's had at least 2 seasons, so their system must work.<br />
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This flowering quince nearly covers the front of another house in the area. Its colour always stops me, even now when it's lost about half its blooms.<br />
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IRL, the colour isn't the burnt orange I'm familiar with, but more coral than the pink in this photo. I might have to overcome my misanthropy & ask for a cutting.<br />
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The old guy himself, Mr Big Nose Dog, curious to find me at eye level - be there treats? If I'd sat like this in front of the DoodleFace, she would've flattened me with Doodle kisses. Mr BN's reserve is greatly appreciated.<br />
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That's us for this week. Perhaps our chores will produce some SoS results for next time.<br />
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Until then, thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you again.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: cyan;">Six on Saturday is a weekly diary hosted by The Propagator & contributed to by gardeners all over the world. For links to other SoS blogs, check out Mr P's <a href="https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2020/02/29/six-on-saturday-29-02-2020/" target="_blank">comments</a> & the Twitter hashtag, #SixOnSaturday.</span></i></b><br />
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The rain & wind've been relentless, with more happening today.<br />
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The whole world's now a quagmire, meaning Mlle DoodleFace (aka Mud Puppy) needs a daily bath. Because of the weather, said bath happens indoors. 😱<br />
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The shed felt meant to replace the roofing lost pre-Ciara, sits by the back door. Plants I'd hoped to've hardened off, are still inside.<br />
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Myself, I went from cabin fever to cabin despair after the hyacinth saga took an unexpected turn.<br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><b>1. Alas, poor Memory, I knew her well.</b></span><br />
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Recap => mystery blooms appeared in my pots a coupla weeks ago, both white & blue. They looked like hyacinth, which I've never had in those colours. The narcissus Thalia in the same pots hadn't made a showing, so I concluded there'd been an order mix-up until Mr P said his Thalia weren't evident either.<br />
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Then the 'hyacinth' opened into Russian snowdrops . . .<br />
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. . . that had been purchased in the green & planted 3 short weeks ago. Granted, they were more yellow than green at the time, but considering there are only 3 types of plants in these pots, one would think I'd've remembered them.<br />
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It's rare for me to feel disheartened, but rather than seeing any humour in this, I felt like the world's dumbest SoS-er.<br />
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Today, I feel there are worse things than not being good at what you enjoy.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Peas, peas, peas.</span></b><br />
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I can't remember which storm thwarted my plans to harden off the sweet peas, but they've now grown into flimsy 8" stems, even after being nipped.<br />
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The edible peas'd been staggered to follow their sweet cousins in a week or so, but outgrew their tray instead.<br />
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Last week, <a href="https://30daysofwildparenting.wordpress.com/2020/02/22/six-on-saturday-22-2-20-a-week-of-practical-jobs/" target="_blank">Wild Parenting</a> talked about planting in tins, so the edible peas got transferred into our ubiquitous pet food cans. I juggled things in the potting shed, bringing in folding chairs for more surfaces, & now all peas, edible & sweet, are in the shed.<br />
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Please God, the storms'll give me a week or 2 to get the peas out.<br />
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<span style="color: cyan;"><b>3. Choco mint pellie blossom.</b></span><br />
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This pellie got featured here a fortnight ago when it came into bud for the first time ever.<br />
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My camera doesn't produce reds or pinks well w/o manual adjustments (which I haven't a clue how to do), but this bloom is bergenia pink. The benefit to the colour being washed out in this photo, however, is that the markings show up better. The pellie itself has become monstrous because I didn't cut it back last autumn. I need to get a plan for it eventually, but at the moment, it's covered in buds<br />
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The first grape hyacinth has arrived, only the one so far.<br />
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My neighbour's are guns a-blazing.<br />
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This planter stays in bloom nearly all year, self seeded nigella taking over next, then calendula in turn.<br />
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My chocolate vine is in bud, some of which are nearly open.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">6. Clamour of Clematis.</span></b><br />
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I'm on a mission to get climbers up all the brick walls in the garden, hoping to cool it down in the summer. <a href="https://ramblinginthegarden.wordpress.com/2020/02/22/six-on-saturday-musings/" target="_blank">Rambling in the Garden</a> mentioned last week that <a href="https://www.thorncroftclematis.co.uk/" target="_blank">Thorncroft Clematis</a> had a lucky dip deal on vines that've lost their labels. I got 3 for the price that one labelled clematis would've been. The nursery sent suggestions as to what they thought the vines might be - all pretty stunning.<br />
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Like Mlle DoodleFace, they must languish inside until the current storm passes over.<br />
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Our calendar warns that, caught between Winter & Spring, February is ripe for stagnation.<br />
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It goes on to say the cure for stagnation is the Beginner's Mind - having an attitude of exploration & discovery.<br />
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That's pretty much how gardening goes for me, so's probably why stagnation & myself aren't well acquainted.<br />
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<span style="color: cyan;">1. Hyacinth mystery continues.</span><br />
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To recap => last week, I found what looked like a blue hyacinth in a pot where no hyacinth dare tread. This week, I found both blue & white hyacinth growing in several pots. Then I realised the original hyacinth (supposedly growing in another part of the garden) were pink. Where did these blue & white hyacinth come from?<br />
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A quick record check shows that Narcissus Thalia are missing from the hyacinth pots, so the nursery must've sent the wrong bulbs. Since they cost nearly the same, I'm undecided about contacting the nursery - the hyacinth are doing great, but I did kinda want those Thalia.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">2. Hydrangea twins.</span></b><br />
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These were victims of the not-so-shady border last year. For those who don't remember, the angle of the sun in February when we moved in, was not the angle of the sun in mid-summer, making what we'd anticipated to be a shady border into the 3rd circle of Dante's Inferno.<br />
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A move to the shadier front garden followed by TLC, & look at them now. They're still young, but I'm hoping they bloom this year. I think they're Runaway Brides.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">3. Laburnum.</span></b><br />
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Another thing that's not bloomed for me is this laburnum sapling which, at the moment, is very ballerina hands.<br />
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This self seeded under a hedge & grew big enough to be seen. I rescued it around 5 years ago, so it's at least 6-7 years old? Maybe it'll never bloom as long as it's in a planter.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">4. Anemone coronaria Bordeaux</span></b><br />
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Their foliage has been up for a coupla weeks, but now it's teasing us with some colour.<br />
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These were so lovely last year, I got some white ones for the front garden.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Phlomis plus one.</span></b><br />
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A Freecycler brought me phlomis when she came for whatever plant it was I gave her. It rather surprised me to see some red at its base this week.<br />
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On closer inspection, apparently a primula'd hitched a ride with it.<br />
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It's a little ahead of my own (below) . . .<br />
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. . . which makes up for its lack of speed by having more buds.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">6. Dahlia Creme de Cassis.</span></b><br />
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I potted this up as soon as it arrived. Before long, it & all these other seedling came up.<br />
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I've waited for 2nd leaves to learn they're lots & lots of tomatoes, none of which I intend to use.<br />
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Guess my hot bin wasn't hot enough, eh?<br />
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Another weekend of high winds, yet the plants make it seem like we've turned the corner toward Spring.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">1. Post Ciara.</span></b><br />
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Ciara's winds got up to 70+mph, but we luckily had little damage. The shed's already loose tar paper flew to Kansas, while some of the climber supports were left a bit whopperjawed.<br />
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This planter surprised me, as I thought it was too heavy to topple - it's an old kitchen composter.<br />
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While it stayed upright, it did, however, dance around, chipping the paint off the pallet.<br />
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Last year, the allium I brought with us gave a poor showing, so good excuse to buy new bulbs.<br />
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Based on where these are planted, I suspect they're the bog standard purple-blue globe on a stick. There are other more varied ones in other parts of the garden.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">3. Cuckoo in the nest.</span></b><br />
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I noticed this coming up in the pot that was supposed to have daffs & tulips.<br />
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That looks like a hyacinth, to me. If so, what got featured last week (below photo) as growing in the very spot the hyacinth were planted?<br />
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I used to be quite good at labelling my bulbs. Obviously that doesn't hold true anymore.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">4. Wild plum buds.</span></b><br />
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This little darlin tickles me pink.<br />
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I bought this years ago in a village plant sale. Although it was marked as a wild cherry, <a href="https://gardenruminations.co.uk/" target="_blank">Jim</a> identified it as a plum. It's young yet & only produces a handful of fruit which go to the birds. When it blooms, it becomes a thing of glory.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">5. Choco mint pellie.</span></b><br />
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I got 3 fancy pellies last year, 2 of which bloomed their hearts out. The third, this choco mint, was forgiven for not blooming, as it has wonderful foliage with a nice scent. It was too beautiful to chop back for winter & has spent these cold, wet months in the potting shed.<br />
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Now it has buds, spurred on, no doubt, by the strawberries behind it that haven't stopped blooming since November.<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">6. Sweet peas.</span></b><br />
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After seeing Mr P's peas last week, I broke open my own packets.<br />
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In a week, they're already too tall for the propagator lid to stay on.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter aconite in the trough & crocus in the grass.</td></tr>
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Time now to wait for Storm Dennis to pass.<br />
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Thanks for stopping by. See you next time.Lora Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09172866617524279809noreply@blogger.com16