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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2019 13:53:42 GMT
I find that peonies are a tricky plant. The depth of the rootbase seems to be critical as to whether it survives, and, if it survives, how well it blooms. I never did well with them and yet they grow just fine around here. I suspect it is my poor 'touch' with peonies.
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Post by kingedmund on Jun 19, 2019 16:55:10 GMT
I had to move mine from one house to another. That did it in. Now it grows but at only 12 inches tall every year then dies out. Every year since.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2019 17:27:13 GMT
For me, that is par for the course.
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Post by Kye on Jun 19, 2019 17:53:00 GMT
There are lots of peonies in the Rectory garden. They come up every year with no fuss or bother and bloom their heads off.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2019 19:53:22 GMT
Yes, yes...we have places like that here, too. But still, my luck with peonies is absent. As, it seems, it is with raspberries and bell peppers.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 24, 2019 23:28:28 GMT
I cleared the mosaic of its weeds and finally got back behind the fenceline iris bed to rid myself of the concentration of stinky bob volunteers. Water, water, water. News is that I won't need to next week. But, hey, it's been dry. It looks as though the melons have taken hold, while the aubergine are malingering. I'm not sure why. The yellow is showing at the edges, with patches of alstromeria popping up everywhere, and the daylilies making their tentative early blooms. Soon...the rudies will dominate. All will be assimilated; resistance will be futile. The alstromeria (aka 'Peruvian lily') has taken refuge under the azalea and, now that the hot pink azalea blooms are gone, it becomes a support for the long leggy stems of the alstromeria. One of my pink day lilies. And, one of my butter yellow day lilies.
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Post by kingedmund on Jun 26, 2019 5:39:15 GMT
Hello WG! Those look fantastic. I love the colors? The peach ones my favorite! How are you?
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Post by Moose on Jun 29, 2019 21:20:40 GMT
They're lovely Kelly
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 4, 2019 20:45:35 GMT
New daylily... My favorite rose, 'Double Delight', soon to be overtaken by crowding rudies.... My 'fairy rose', aka 'sweetheart rose' (a polyantha). The top of the fence is six feet, so the top of the bloom is about twelve feet up there.... I'm going to have to break out the pole pruner just to deadhead it. The grapes are graping. The view from the porch of the garden shed.... Ahhhhh....Now, isn't that much better than pix of old men with bad haircuts?
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 9, 2019 21:32:51 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 10, 2019 19:35:56 GMT
Between the expanding Rudies, catnip, and weeds, my pathways are disappearing in to the foliage mass.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 20, 2019 16:39:28 GMT
A lovely morning, so I bibbed up and ventured out to do battle with the weeds. It was like hacking my way through the jungle. It's thick in places. Much of it will require 'on knees' work. **deep sigh** I think I need to find a youngster with a high sense of discernment amidst significant ambiguity to hire for weeding. From the backdoor: It's in bright sun, so all the screaming yellow rudbeckia are not as distinct as when it there is less intense lighting. Still, I kinda get this "yellow brick road to the emerald city" vibe off of it....
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Post by JoeP on Jul 21, 2019 15:18:50 GMT
I think I need to find a youngster with a high sense of discernment amidst significant ambiguity to hire for weeding. Or, just tie bits of wool to the plants that are not weeds
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Post by Sarah W. on Jul 25, 2019 17:54:02 GMT
Wow. That two-colored rose you posted on July 4th is stunning!
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 25, 2019 18:23:55 GMT
Even more so in real life. It is my most fragrant rose....swoon. 'Double Delight'
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 26, 2019 15:35:49 GMT
From the back door this morning: I am at near peak on the rudbeckia....I'd say August 1 will probably be max screaming yella.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 29, 2019 3:30:47 GMT
One of my cannabis plants is blooming. This is very early. Harvest is not until, like, mid-October.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 3, 2019 16:17:51 GMT
The Full Rudy. As of August 2. Next year, there will be more.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 15, 2019 0:56:16 GMT
I took out the alien invader today. It was obviously not anywhere close to what I had fantasized it might be...just another noxious volunteer. I had to lift a stepping stone to extract it, though. It had a root that was commensurate with its six foot height.
In other news, a second cannabis is blooming. The other 'gifted' stock. It's blooms are gold, rather than the purple/red of the first one, so I'm now fairly sure that they are not the same variety, as the giftor thought.
And, the grapes will be ripening in the next week.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 27, 2019 18:02:04 GMT
'Tis harvest day. The first of several, I suspect. My first cannabis plant is being harvested and the results trimmed and hung to dry. Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, we will go rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves! Spark one up!
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 1, 2019 13:32:39 GMT
The latest round of deadheading the roses pretty much marks the end of the second bloom.
Now, we'll see how the roses do at pushing out a third bloom against the fading light and the crowding rudies.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 1, 2019 15:15:38 GMT
Visitors this morning included a pair of flickers (sizeable woodpeckers). I'd seen a fairly regular annual visit by one flicker, but this is the first I've seen of a mated pair. It looks like our original has been hanging out in flicker fern bars and hooked up...
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 17, 2019 12:25:27 GMT
That sounds nice. Woodpeckers are fun. I love blue jays. Do you get those?
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 17, 2019 13:12:08 GMT
Yes. We have a pair the raids the blueberry bushes in my back neighbor's garden. They tend to clash with the crows, which reign in this 'hood.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 23, 2019 14:28:48 GMT
A week of wet and the rest of my cannabis crop, four whole plants, are in the grips of mold....They had started blooming, but were not far enough along to harvest.
Now, I doubt I'll get much from them at all unless we get a flash heat wave...which I don't see on the horizon.
Damn. I'm glad I had two early bloomers, or I'd have lost the whole shebang.
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 26, 2019 3:15:51 GMT
Happened to look at your flowers on the way to the bottom of this but I have to say. You have beautiful roses! I love those.
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 27, 2019 0:31:32 GMT
The crop is in.
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 27, 2019 1:46:21 GMT
All of it? How much crop is there?
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Post by whollygoats on Sept 27, 2019 12:45:26 GMT
The legal limit.
You have a reading comprehension problem, don't you, eddie?
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 27, 2019 13:38:13 GMT
Sure thing! You mentioned earlier you had it drying on the floor or hanging or whatever. Don’t remember really.. If you cut the rest did it spill over into the rest of the house? What kind of soil do you use or is it something you special make to make the plant act different or grow different? Down here they grow very well but I’ve heard that different light and different soils give different outcomes.
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