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Post by whollygoats on May 18, 2020 16:57:33 GMT
Since it is a dreary, drippy day, I thought I'd bring you up to speed on what has bloomed... My first iris bloom of the year....'Early Dawn'. 19.4 My first asparagus shoot in the new 'raised bed'. 21.4 The full set of 'Early Dawn'. 27.4 My heirloom unknown purple self. 3.5 A second stem of 'First Interstate', located in a different corner. 6.5 And, the first of the set of 'Graphic Arts'. 6.5 And, the same day, the first of the set of 'City Lights'. 6.5 'Bubble Bubble'....not good focus. A first time bloomer in my garden. 8.5 The iris bed at the eastern fenceline at the end of the first week of May. 8.5 By then, it was evident that the new asparagus raised beds were off to an acceptable start...
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Post by whollygoats on May 18, 2020 21:52:29 GMT
But WAIT! There's MORE! So...After the potpot shuttle, I ended up having an unused full pot in the middle of the old 'Mater Patch. I didn't want to move it. And...I had some errant strolling raspberry canes. So, I plugged two new shoots in there, added some gladiolus corms and a sprinkling of pansies and, voila, I've a centerpiece. We'll see how it works. A cluster of 'Graphic Arts' blooms. A cluster of 'City Lights' blooms. 'Doll Face'. One of my favorites, 'Dusky Challenger'. My favorite 'red' iris, 'Lenten Prayer'. A pastel purple of unknown variety. 'Throb'. Need I say more? A Siberian iris. An unknown variety of a pastel fuschia self.
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Post by whollygoats on May 18, 2020 22:06:35 GMT
And, STILL more! The season's best performer, 'City Lights', with eight stems, and each stem putting forth at least five blossoms per stem. 'Celebration Song'. 'Tulip Festival' Unknown variety of a deep red iris. More unknown fuschia self. 16.5 More 'Doll Face'. 'Ladyfriend'. 16.5 'Gold Galore' Four stems of 'Dusky Challenger' and one stem of 'Gold Galore'....a planned arrangement that actually worked out, even though 'Gold Galore' looks like it is photobombing.
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Post by whollygoats on May 18, 2020 22:21:37 GMT
And, still MORE.... 'Val de Loire'. Seconds on 'Bubble Bubble'. Seconds on 'Celebration Song', with that 'dewy look'. A stand of four stems of light pastel purple selfs....not necessarily all the same variety. Our unknown deep red self returns. The view from the back door on May 16. I entitled this one, "Lenten Prayer after a workout at the gym." And...'Ladyfriend' must have joined 'Lenten Prayer' at the gym. The stand of 'Val de Loire' as seen through the Spanish poppies and frilly pink columbine. The black tub to the left is the 'rhubarb at the crossroads'. The stand of 'Val de Loire' yesterday, when it was sunny. I'm still waiting for three varieties to bloom, including my one and only Japanese iris. But, iris season is past peak. The roses shall reign next.
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Post by whollygoats on May 19, 2020 1:49:11 GMT
The view to the eastern fence from the center of the back garden. The big black pot on the right is the rhubarb tub. The open area between the rhubarb tub and the terra cotta pots is 'the crossroads'. The large shrub to the left, standing against the fence is 'Cecile Brunner' a polyantha rose (aka fairy rose) in climber form. Then, there is the monster on the fence. That is the dead, or dying, honeysuckle. With a live, blooming clematis in its midst. The pots are the cannabis pots; there are six. Plantings have begun.
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Post by kingedmund on May 19, 2020 3:48:33 GMT
I just love these in you garden. You’ve done an amazing job. I liked Iris’s so much that I have my grandmother depression glass called Iris and Herringbone pattern. The crystal colored sets and not the carnival glass colored sets.
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Post by whollygoats on May 19, 2020 5:41:48 GMT
Well, I've been messing with iris since I was a new shaver. And, funnily, I think I just realized that I've been my own worst enemy.
Mind you, this year's crop of blooms is disappointing. A number of varieties are down in count and blacks, whites, and ordinary pinks made no show.
I just learned that for one's iris to bloom well, they need to have their rhizomes get lots of nice exposure to the sun. This is probably part and parcel of the ritual of pruning back their own foliage after they've finished blooming....which I shirked last summer.
Me? I've been encouraging interplanting of rudbeckia, which starts leafing in May and blooms in August and September, with the foliage shading the iris rhizomes.
I guess I need to work to keep them separate. Ranked, rather than interplanted.
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Post by whollygoats on May 20, 2020 23:37:57 GMT
Today, the foxglove started blooming.
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Post by whollygoats on May 24, 2020 3:08:00 GMT
Whoa....Back with the 'Val de Loire' iris and the tubs of unidentified iris is quite a cluster of daylilies about to burst.....
Likewise with almost all the roses....all out buds.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 2, 2020 1:41:42 GMT
Well, the roses are now all in full first bloom. The rose festival has arrived.
But...geez. I guess nobody here is interested in fleur pix.
I planted my zucchini and four melons. I had intended upon obtaining cantaloupe, but instead, in my hurry, I grabbed watermelons. So, I guess I'm trialing watermelon this year.
I'm going to have to dedicate time and energy to assure that my iris bloom better next year. I shall have to shuffle with the rudies.
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Post by Mari on Jun 2, 2020 11:24:33 GMT
Watermelon is good with a pinch of salt.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 11, 2020 22:29:08 GMT
Sigh...
A fortnight of relentless rains. Right at the first bloom of the roses.
Yesterday, our first day of any sun or warmth for some time, was so stultifyingly humid that I was driven back indoors after only twenty minutes in the garden. Dreadful.
I just finished deadheading about half of the first bloom, most of which had rotted on the stem with 'bud blast' induced by too much water. The beautiful bloom of the red 'Olympiad' looked like it had the pox...all the blooms had spotting.
Other plants, like the rhubarb, and almost all the weeds, are reveling in all the excess water. The roses, not so much.
In other news, my first daylily bloomed today. It's pastel orange; kinda the color of a mango lassi.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 12, 2020 4:21:34 GMT
The jasmine has begun blooming.
I harvested my first raspberries today. Before even my first strawberry.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 17, 2020 20:12:52 GMT
Finally!
A dryish day. Well, it's not raining and the street and walk are dry, but the moisture lingers. It's a good day to weed.
Maybe this was what the double rainbow yesterday was promising....and, with one end on the next block, too.
The bloom on the cornus kousa is starting to take on a pink tinge to the points of the white bracts....the beginning of the fade of the bloom.
Cecile Brunner, my fairy rose, has produced its first few blooms and it is heavy with more to come.
The daylilies have started in earnest, with a light yellow opening not too far from the pastel orange. Once the bleeding hearts fade back, the spread of daylilies now hidden will be revealed....I didn't plan that, but I like that it turned out that way.
Raspberries to snack on. The slugs are beating me to the strawberries. (My back neighbor, who grows blueberries, has had to erect bird netting against the bluejays. Her netting went up last weekend.) The rhubarb is flourshing.
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Post by Mari on Jun 18, 2020 6:20:03 GMT
My raspberries are not threatened fortunately but my strawberries are... fortunately it's overproducing so I won't miss the ones I have to throw out, but still.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 25, 2020 2:02:31 GMT
The bloom on the kousa flutters down from the tree. Faded.
In the back, the Rose of Sharon blooms.
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Post by Moose on Jun 25, 2020 3:58:45 GMT
None of your piccies show for me .. not sure if it's just me.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 26, 2020 4:08:20 GMT
Yesterday was our warmest so far this year. Today started overcast, but cleared just as I decided to go out in to the garden (about noon), so I retreated back to the computer and an afternoon nap. This evening, the bliss was sitting on the balcony as the sun faded in the west breathing in the languid fragrance of the blooming jasmine. I disabled my smoke alarm in the library so I could throw the doors open and let the fragrance inside.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 26, 2020 4:11:53 GMT
None of your piccies show for me .. not sure if it's just me. No, it's me, too. So, I assume it is for everybody. I repost from FB using FB as a platform for my pix. When somebody (Facebook, ProBoard, whoever the fuck else who might be involved) changes protocols between the various services, all the pix I uploaded here get wiped off. "Upgrades", y'know? It's just not worth it for me to bother posting pix here. So, screw it.
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Post by Moose on Jun 26, 2020 4:13:03 GMT
I'll ask Col if there's anything he can do about it (or Steve, or anyone technically minded). I could see them a few days ago
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Post by Moose on Jun 26, 2020 4:13:27 GMT
I can see them on facebook.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 26, 2020 15:41:07 GMT
Yes, you can.
So, if anybody here wants to see my pix, they can just go to F******k!
Of course, with Zuck playing footsies with Dumbshit Donny, I'm disinclined to promote F******k. I'm looking for ways out, actually.
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Post by Moose on Jun 26, 2020 21:51:26 GMT
How is he playing footsies with Donny? (genuine question)
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Post by JoeP on Jun 27, 2020 9:59:54 GMT
Mark Suckerberg refuses to moderate or remove anything that Honest Don says - claims it is in the public interest to allow his lies to be shared widely. What he really means is it creates more "engagement" and advertising revenue for Farcebook.
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Post by Kye on Jun 27, 2020 10:44:22 GMT
I have no garden, but I do have a garden question: Is it wrong to get so much pleasure deadheading my petunias? I'm feeling weirdly guilty...
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Post by Moose on Jun 27, 2020 23:43:33 GMT
Look on it as sending them to a better place?
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Post by Kye on Jun 27, 2020 23:48:09 GMT
What better place can there be than my balcony flower box?
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Post by Moose on Jun 28, 2020 1:11:51 GMT
Petunia Heaven!
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Post by kingedmund on Jun 30, 2020 17:11:07 GMT
Yes.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 1, 2020 22:39:53 GMT
Well, I thought I had lost all the miniature hollyhock mallow I'd accumulated from the single gift my neighbor had given. But, lo, what do I find but a couple of far flung scions. Maybe they will proliferate from there....
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