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Post by whollygoats on Oct 15, 2022 23:13:15 GMT
The snowdrops and portion of the miniature daffodils have been planted in the parking strip west of the step-through.
I've been hauling buckets of composted barnyard manure down as soil amendment and topping. So, I'm spreading more bullshit. No surprise, there, I suppose.
Next up is spreading seed. No wild oats. Mostly forget-me-nots, with a couple of patches for johnnie-jump-ups and Alaska columbine. All in the parking strip.
Still more than 75 miniature daffodil bulbs to plug into the ground.
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 21, 2022 5:06:54 GMT
I gave some of my miniature daffodil bulbs to the neighbors, before placed the remainder into the ground, mostly in the back garden.
I found a packet of sweetpea seed, so I added them to the mulched vines along the garden shed.
More forget-me-nots scattered.
Hoping for rain.
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Post by Mari on Oct 23, 2022 8:26:38 GMT
Sounds like you've prepared for a lovely Spring
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 1, 2022 19:03:01 GMT
I am doing my best to improve my coming spring.
I note that today I have a few fuschia blooms and a few rudbeckia blooms, but not much else. The katsura tree at the street is all yellow now, with the top leaves all blown. My back neighbor has a mature vine maple in her front yard, of which I can see the peripheral crown. I'm going to have hustle my bustle during one of the daytime dry sessions and walk around and get a good look at it in full color. Most of the remainder of the deciduous trees are still green. Well, wan green.
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Post by Mari on Nov 2, 2022 18:08:33 GMT
Here the reds are already starting to fade. It's all turning brown now, or falling down.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 2, 2022 19:23:39 GMT
We're just ramping up.
I took a short drive today and the reds are now making themselves known.
Today, I had a group of goldfinches gleaning the rudies in my back garden.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 3, 2022 17:55:14 GMT
Is cold and wet. The rot has set in.
I stopped deadheading roses back on October 1 and I'm now getting the opening buds of the third, and usually final, bloom of the roses. Of course, with all the rain, the blooms just opening are succumbing to bud blast and rotting in place. But for 'Sweet Surrender'. I had pruned back much of its third bloom when I stopped deadheading and it has produced a new stem with multiple early buds. A fourth bloom. We'll see...
The cessation of deadheading is to allow the bush itself to go dormant for the winter by allowing the bloom to develop into fruit, 'hips', and stop trying to engage in sexual reproductive behavior (bloom). Removing the spent bloom before it hips out (deadheading) encourages the bush to produce new growth for flowers.
The city tree inspector came yesterday to examine my street tree in regards to my request for a permit to remove and a permit to not replace. It was not a positive experience.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 10, 2022 17:59:34 GMT
So...Election Day, the sun came out. That night, we had First Frost.
The day after, yesterday, was again sunny and the ground was a mite more solid. So, I uprooted the tomato.
Today, it is sunny, again.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 11, 2022 1:36:35 GMT
The katsura is defoliated. All the leaves are gone and the butchery of the line clearance crew is made clear to the world. It is a veritable demonstration of 'stub cutting'.
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Post by Mari on Nov 22, 2022 12:15:18 GMT
I forgot to plant my daffodils and now their packages are soaked. I think I can forgot about it now.
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 22, 2022 21:31:25 GMT
The kousa in the front garden has gone bronze. The styrax along the Ho Chi Minh Trail is going bald fast.
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Post by whollygoats on Dec 12, 2022 14:54:55 GMT
The kousa in the front garden is the last tree with leaves. It is very ragged and the next storm will remove the remainder, for sure.
Autumn has finally fallen, and here it is nearly midwinter.
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Post by whollygoats on Jan 16, 2023 2:13:41 GMT
I got a chance to step out on the balcony between storms. My appearance startled all the ground-feeding birds into the surrounding refuges. But, my reworking the hummingbird feeder proved out, as there was a hummer at the feeder tanking up. I'll have to keep a closer eye on the feeder than I have been and keep it leveled up for the hardy few.
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Post by whollygoats on Jan 17, 2023 19:16:00 GMT
Slow drains urged a run to the hardware store and, while there, I noticed that they'd put pansy starts on their roll-out displays outside their front door. Signs of spring, for sure.
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Post by kingedmund on Jan 18, 2023 15:22:04 GMT
I love orange and yellow pansies. I’m not sure if that’s spelled correctly.
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Post by Mari on Feb 3, 2023 19:00:53 GMT
I bought blooming pansies to add to the garden, 'cause I need the house to look cheerful. We're going to sell. I've got several bluebells and daffodils peeping through the soil, but they won't bloom soon enough for the pics.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 3, 2023 19:44:22 GMT
I met with my therapist gardener. She'll prolly start in with ferns and prunings come late February.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 9, 2023 1:44:31 GMT
My first day puttering in the garden. It was a lovely day with mostly sunny skies. I didn't accomplish much, but at least I started. Mostly, it was picking up various plant pots and Irish vagrants and putting my clematis trellis aright.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 19, 2023 15:10:45 GMT
Okay...It has been relatively decent climate-wise and I have iris reticulata abloom. This weekend is 'President's Day', Monday being the actual national holiday, but it is effectively a 'bank holiday' to make a three day weekend for all the mail carriers. Because of its placement in the wheel of the year and it having the benefit of three days off work (pre-retirement) meant that it became the traditional unofficial start of the gardening year here in Ravenswood.
Let the pruning begin.
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 19, 2023 15:15:52 GMT
I must check the trays at the hardware store the next time I venture out. I need pansies. I have just the place, ready and waiting.
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Post by kingedmund on Feb 27, 2023 16:11:34 GMT
It is that time of the year.
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Post by Mari on Feb 28, 2023 18:50:48 GMT
Pansies are lovely and versatile.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 7, 2023 0:16:41 GMT
Croci abloom. Rhubarb has emerged.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 11, 2023 20:16:55 GMT
I have seed waiting to go down once we've passed that "final frost of the season".
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 14, 2023 19:31:26 GMT
Violets abloom!
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 15, 2023 22:19:30 GMT
I have tete-a-tete abloom! Genuine miniature narcissus. Tiny daffodils.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 16, 2023 0:53:02 GMT
Okay...A line of ants to and from the hummingbird feeder. Time to act to trial ant-proofing the western marches along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 22, 2023 20:33:46 GMT
More than a month later...
What a miserable month of yucky weather. I have been hunkered down indoors for too long.
The hyacinth are abloom. The miniature daffodils are blown and the forget-me-nots are beginning to bloom, along with the tulips.
Lilacs are due any time and the tree outside the kitchen sink window is leafing out.
A lion hunt is distinctly in order.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 22, 2023 20:39:34 GMT
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Post by Mari on Apr 25, 2023 7:02:30 GMT
my daffs are all gone, but I have a few wallflowers doing their thing and I have tulips from somewhere. I didn't plant them and they weren't there the previous years, so this is a bit of a surprise. My pansies are still going strong.
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