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Post by JoeP on Apr 26, 2023 9:49:27 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. Tulips? In the Netherlands?
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 26, 2023 16:22:15 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. Tulips? In the Netherlands? Who has heard of such a thing?
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Post by Mari on Apr 26, 2023 18:56:18 GMT
Haha, yeah, but generally you do have to plant the bulbs first you know?
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 28, 2023 22:41:00 GMT
The katsura is entirely leafed out. The snowbell and the kousa are in the process of leafing out. The maples lag at least a week behind the others.
The woodland hyacinth are beginning their bloom. Soon, my garden will be awash in light blue and pastel violet, with the forget-me-nots and the woodland hyacinth.
Lion hunting has been productive.
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Post by whollygoats on May 3, 2023 17:34:16 GMT
The grape is finally pruned. The garden is all groomed and ready for the rillyrilly big show. I've already got iris buds forming.
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Post by whollygoats on May 4, 2023 2:47:11 GMT
A glorious day all day long, followed by a gentle rain just as the sun sets....a perfect gardener's day.
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Post by whollygoats on May 4, 2023 15:35:49 GMT
Now awaiting the first iris bloom of the season...
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Post by whollygoats on May 7, 2023 21:17:55 GMT
The azalea bloomed. It must be nearly Mother's Day.
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Post by whollygoats on May 9, 2023 1:08:24 GMT
First iris bloom of the year...
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Post by whollygoats on May 13, 2023 2:46:37 GMT
The weigela is abloom.
The street trees finally finished leafing out, so the houses across the street are now not visible.
The iris buds are proliferating, but a second bloom has yet to show.
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Post by whollygoats on May 14, 2023 10:14:45 GMT
First iris of 2023: Second iris of 2023: Many more to come.
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Post by whollygoats on May 14, 2023 10:17:07 GMT
New bunting for sunscreens on the back balcony... Bloomstorm abrewin'...
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Post by Mari on May 16, 2023 7:25:45 GMT
Lovely! The first blooming iris is gorgeous.
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Post by whollygoats on May 20, 2023 2:30:55 GMT
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Post by Mari on May 23, 2023 13:05:02 GMT
I can still see it.
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Post by whollygoats on May 24, 2023 2:27:23 GMT
IRIS STEM COUNT - 2023 (still in process)
Deep purple self - 7 'City Lights' - 0 Palladia - 9 'Graphic Arts' - 21 'World Premier' - 2 'Wintry Skies' - 2 'Tour de France' - 2 'Picasso Moon' - 2 'Rite of Passage' - 1 'Blueberry Bliss' - 0 unknown plicata - 1 'Men in Black' - 1 'Syrian Hills' - 3 + 1 Prussian blue self - 3 + 4 light purple pastel - 2 'Poem of Ecstasy' - 3 + 2 'Val de Loire' - 5 'Tulip Festival' - 1 Apricot dwarf - 1 'Double Ringer' - 2 'Sudden Impact' - 2 'First Interstate' - 0 'Garden Time' - 1 'Gold Galore' - 2 'Dusky Challenger' - 6 'Rhinelander' - 1 'Pink Attraction' - 0 'Midnight Oil - 3 'Lenten Prayer' - 3 'Sultan's Palace'- 1 'Pirate Ahoy' - 4 'Starring' - 1 'Jimmy G' - 1 'Starwoman' - 1 'Immortality' - 2 'Be My Honey' - 0 'Picasso Moon' - 3 'Salzburg Echo' - 1 'Black Suited' - 0 'Double Ringer' - 1 'Lark Ascending' - 0 'Butterlicious' - 0 Blue Siberian - 5 Orchid Japanese -3 White Chinese - 7 + 6 Pseudocorus - 24 'Tulip Festival' - 1 'Off the Shoulder' - 1 'Lady Friend' - 0 'Vibrant' - 0 'Anything Goes' - 0
Notable missing varieties are "Lady Friend', 'Vibrant', & 'Anything Goes', all of which had their beds disturbed as they were lifted and separated. But then, so was the variety 'Val de Loire', which was rescued from behind the rhubarb tub and moved ten feet to the front corner of the garden shed.
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Post by whollygoats on May 24, 2023 21:42:00 GMT
Okay...Here we go. Siberian iris. Japanese iris. "Starring", a tall bearded iris, aka iris germanica. Looking out my back door, a few days back: "Lenten Prayer" Multiple "Sultry Challenger". Another charming pair of "Sultry Challenger". The first "Val de Loire". A huge bud of rosa grandiflora "Sweet Surrender".
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Post by whollygoats on May 24, 2023 22:24:12 GMT
I can't put too many pix per post, so here's more: "Gold Galore" still unfolding. "Tulip Festival". View of the balcony from the Chook Chalet. Looking out the back door, again: Three stems on the Japanese iris this year! A 'black' iris. "Song of Ecstasy", a very robust variety. 'World Premier' Little apricot dwarf hiding in the sage.
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Post by whollygoats on May 24, 2023 22:38:20 GMT
And more... I think you saw the initial bloom of this variety, Syrian Hills. My first "Pirate Ahoy". 'Red' (suspected to be "Sultan's Palace") in the foreground with "Lenten Prayer" in the distance, and "Pirate Ahoy" between them. From "Lenten Prayer" perspective. Newcomer "Picasso Moon" against a background of the heritage deep purple selfs. Multiple stems of "Dusky Challenger". The interspersed white, yellow, and pink varieties have yet to bounce back from the maidenforming. Maybe next year. The Chorus, along the eastern fenceline. Looking out my back door, again. This time just a couple days ago.
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Post by whollygoats on May 25, 2023 0:43:03 GMT
And still more... 'Red'...aka "Sultan's Palace". Multiple blooms on "Starring". "Immortality". "Salzburg Echo" with heritage deep purple selfs. "Picasso Moon". A stand of "Val de Loire" with topmost blooms unfurled. The old 'mater patch. View at the front walk. A grampus, for sure, the white beard gives it away. Iris pseudocornus, aka "Yellow Flag". It is unbearded and classified as an invasive plant pest.
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Post by whollygoats on May 25, 2023 1:26:20 GMT
This morning, looking out my back door... Frilly yellow is "Garden Time", the three less frilly yellows are "Gold Galore", and the red is "Lenten Prayer". "Picasso Moon". "Throb" with the iris equivalent of bed head. It is still unfurling the bloom. Hybrid tea rose "Pascali". The chorus with new front blooms. "Midnight Oil" which got relocated at the last moment last fall to a location out front. "Sudden Impact". "Double Ringer". Not just one "Pirate Ahoy".
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Post by whollygoats on May 25, 2023 4:32:02 GMT
The iris along the southern end of the eastern fenceline, back near where the lilac snag is malingering, are being inundated by the alstroemeria I had misguidedly transplanted back there more than twenty years ago. Back before Ivy died.
My option is the move the iris to better locations and/or depredate the alstroemeria. I started the migration by moving the back two sets (six rhizomes) last fall. I still want some of the iris where they are presently (at the end of the walk out to the fenceline) and will attack the alstroemeria there, while lifting and moving those further south, closer to the back of the garage with the Wall of Fifty Plumbers. This will be getting more foot traffic this summer with the replacement of the lilac and the removal of the snag.
I have the lilac in hand, awaiting ensoilment....ahem, planting.
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Post by whollygoats on May 27, 2023 2:29:11 GMT
And thus I passed yet another anniversary of Ivy's birth. Alone.
I wept.
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Post by Kye on May 27, 2023 20:54:07 GMT
So sorry, Goat. It's such sorrow to lose a soulmate. *hugs*
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Post by Moose on May 29, 2023 5:15:12 GMT
I am sorry Kelly. Which sounds lame but ...I am.
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Post by whollygoats on May 30, 2023 4:06:56 GMT
A new introduction this year, 'Tour de France'... This is 'Rite of Passage'... The chorus of 'Graphic Arts' blooms is now mostly gone, now naught but bare ruined choirs... But, behind all those alluring iris, like this 'Sudden Impact', lurk the pretenders of the next regime... Roses... This is just the beginning. There are more, like...
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Post by whollygoats on May 30, 2023 20:14:23 GMT
I went to the nursery today and I came home with new recruits.
I got a nice big sweet bell pepper to go in the pot where the rosemary bought the farm. It'll allow me to clear and top up the pot; it has settled quite a bit since the rosemary was planted.
I came home with six 'Black Bell' eggplant starts. Those are for my spring bulb pots, which I'll have to clear of rudbeckia.
I got a couple of red fleurs for the huge pots in the asparagus collective.
And, more Irish and Scotch mosses for the pathways.
Lastly, two potted roses. One, 'Ch-ching' is a yellow grandiflora slated to replace 'Iceberg' in the main bed in the back. 'Iceberg' suffered some trauma several years back and has not bounced back. Plus, I have enough white roses and not enough yellow, plus the new rose is fragrant, while 'Iceberg' is not. The other rose is a climber and is slated to go along the south end of the eastern fence, climbing out along the fence, rather than up. It is 'Joseph's Coat', and multicolored (ROY). I'm looking for a bit more color along that now drab fence.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 3, 2023 2:53:12 GMT
Another wonderous day for puttering in the garden.
The red fleurs obtained in the last foray to the nursery were viburnum.
I have been prepping back next to the chook chalet to prepare for the coming of the rudbeckia cleared from around the crossroads, in preparation there for more iris (to be moved from the eastern fenceline) and more Irish moss...to enlarge the crossroads. I pulled up one of the composting towers along the Ho Chi Minh Trail and am preparing to move the contents exposed to the strawberry bed next to the chook chalet. Then, I'll plant the tomato start I obtained on the results. I see that I also have at least one volunteer tomato from last year's scattering of excess fruit. Dunno what I'm going to do with that.
I'll still have to refurbish the tub that the rosemary was in to accept the bell pepper, but it will be a temporary measure, in any case.
I will also have to prepare the spaces for the two roses. One space already has a rose which will need to be replaced. The other needs the old lilac snag mostly removed. Later this month; I'll have to keep an eye on the containered roses to make sure they get watered.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 12, 2023 17:08:54 GMT
As the last iris bloom fades on its stem, the roses are at full out and deadheading has begun.
The clematis is blooming prolifically and the wall of jasmine has opened its blossoms. A warm day like today should set its aromatic tendencies off.
The sweet pepper plant is nestled in, as are all six of the eggplant starts. I harvested and ate both a raspberry and several strawberries on this morning's tour.
I gotta get me a decent flat of strawberries (like, at a farmer's market) so I can harvest my rhubarb and make rhubarb strawberry pie. Yeah!
The daylily buds are getting ready to pop.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 14, 2023 22:12:40 GMT
First daylily blooms have appeared.
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