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Post by whollygoats on Jun 16, 2023 3:44:28 GMT
Wow. Just wow. The scent of jasmine dominates the back garden and the open doors allows it to seep indoors.
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Post by Moose on Jun 16, 2023 4:22:09 GMT
Your older pics have disappeared (this seems to be an EF thing, as I guess you know) but I see that and it is beautiful
I went outside for the first time in a year a few days ago ... there were some flowers that looked like buttercups. Nothing as beautiful as you have but just seeing any flowers was awesome
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 16, 2023 15:26:04 GMT
Your older pics have disappeared (this seems to be an EF thing, as I guess you know) but I see that and it is beautiful I went outside for the first time in a year a few days ago ... there were some flowers that looked like buttercups. Nothing as beautiful as you have but just seeing any flowers was awesome They prolly were 'buttercups', aka ranunculus repens, which is a pest in these parts. If they are massed enough to make an impressive flower display, then you have already lost.
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Post by Moose on Jun 16, 2023 23:50:38 GMT
They were only one one strip beside the fence . I thought they were really pretty.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 18, 2023 23:26:33 GMT
They were only one one strip beside the fence . I thought they were really pretty. Hmmm...That sounds 'contained'. As if someone purposefully planted them and was tending to them. Were they tall (over six inches in height), or did they hug the ground (below six inches) and send up stalks with the flowers? Ranunculus repens can be mowed and it will respond by lying flatter and sending up flowers on shorter stalks, it creeps along the ground and can be walkable. I have a neighbor whose greater portion of their back 'lawn' is repens rather than grass. (So...six inches is, what, about 20 cm?)
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Post by Moose on Jun 19, 2023 0:24:50 GMT
I think they'd be all over the back but Col mowed the rest of them
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2023 15:30:13 GMT
Well, after the real rainfall, the roses now look pretty bedraggled. I'll have to do some intensive deadheading once the conditions improve.
The daylilies are starting to open in earnest.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 21, 2023 18:24:09 GMT
It is a beautiful day after three days of rain. The doors are ajar and the cats are happy.
The jasmine fragrance drifts in the open door.
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Post by Moose on Jun 22, 2023 1:10:10 GMT
Too hot here. But the buttercups are still thriving.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 28, 2023 21:54:10 GMT
Obtained another flat (twenty 4 inch pots) of Irish and Scotch moss. I'm ready to repave what was supposed to be the fairy thyme path. The fairy thyme did not take.
I'm awaiting the advancing shadow. I ought to be able to work on it early this evening.
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Post by Moose on Jun 29, 2023 5:06:02 GMT
Well, can we see pics?
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 1, 2023 17:12:50 GMT
Here:
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Post by Moose on Jul 2, 2023 5:21:12 GMT
It is beautiful. I would like to sit out there and just feel peaceful.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 5, 2023 16:38:41 GMT
From the back door... From the balcony... The roses are largely blown and are in the process of being deadheaded. The first bloom is done for. The daylilies and alstroemeria, along with the clematis and jasmine, are in full regalia. There are harbingers of the coming regime....rudies.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 5, 2023 16:43:14 GMT
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 7, 2023 15:05:41 GMT
Evidence today that the Jackamanii superba clematis has established itself. Two dark purple flowers showed up in the cloud of light blue blooms.
And, the rudbeckia are starting the unfurl their petals. By weeks end, the back garden will be awash in screaming yellow blooms.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 15, 2023 19:53:07 GMT
The Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) bloomed today.
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Post by Moose on Jul 16, 2023 3:05:38 GMT
Pictures not showing for me again - anyone else able to see them?
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 25, 2023 23:08:27 GMT
Out my back door...The reign of the Rudies.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 26, 2023 15:38:14 GMT
'Sweet Surrender' is in full second bloom, while all the other rosebushes tend to have just one bloom open. Evidently, it is either the last blossom of the first bloom, or the first blossom of the second bloom. The rose of sharon is fully abloom, now, too. And, the jasmine is still pumping out a fragrant cloud.
I just took down the alstroemeria along the back fence and extracted the iris rhizomes I'd planted back there and replanted them near the crosspaths where they will get a lot more sun and not get buried under a mass of dying foliage from the alstroemeria.
I have aubergine fruitlets on all four plants! They're just nubbins at this point.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 27, 2023 3:14:29 GMT
The view of the balcony and rosebeds from the Chateau Chook. A bumper crop of screamin' yella. Surface of the sun, anybody?
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 27, 2023 3:42:55 GMT
The new rose, 'Joseph's Coat', my first climber, ever, has been planted against the east fence in the back garden. It is about a long stride from the lilac snag and thus two long strides from the new lilac shrub.
I'm hoping the rose will establish itself in the next three to four years, while the lilac matures and be able to 'lean north' to stretch out of the shade the lilac will eventually throw in that corner. I'm not sure what will become of the already struggling raspberries in that corner, but some runners have already been made towards more well-lit locales. A friend of mine calls it 'goin' for a stroll', and says raspberries are infamous for it.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 27, 2023 3:53:36 GMT
Notes for next year...
More daffodil bulbs are indicated for almost anywhere. Full sized. Purchase online.
Sweet peas need to be in-hand early. This option was missed this year due to bad timing and false assumptions.
More Chinese forget-me-nots for the potted plantings. I love that periwinkle blue and they are later and longer in bloom than the standard.
More pansies and violas. This will require hunting for better varieties, rather than settling for what they have at the hardware store.
Try again on the alyssum in the parking strip. Maybe get sets, instead of relying upon seed.
Calendula...willow bells, particularly. Pink, if they can be found.
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 28, 2023 23:05:53 GMT
Borrowed my gardener's extension reach pruners to prune Cecile. The right tool for the job makes the job so much easier.
I started the job but was run off by the direct sun. Must wait...
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Post by whollygoats on Jul 29, 2023 18:37:16 GMT
Selective culling of rudbeckia has begun. I gave orders to remove from a swath through the balcony rosebed, freeing up three clumps of iris and two inundated rosebushes.
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Post by Mari on Jul 29, 2023 19:43:42 GMT
The right tools make everything easier.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 12, 2023 0:49:36 GMT
I first noticed today that I have fruit set on my tomato.
I've largely ignored my tomato plant for about a month now and just assumed that I was getting lots of foliage, but not much fruiting. Well, there was more flowering, and thus fruiting, going on that I had been aware of and now I have nodules of green fruits.
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Post by JoeP on Aug 12, 2023 9:47:15 GMT
Miisa's tomato plants have progressed to producing red tomatoes.
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Post by Mari on Aug 12, 2023 9:56:45 GMT
Mine were still at the point of flowering when we moved. That was a week ago
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Post by kingedmund on Aug 28, 2023 22:11:01 GMT
Miisa's tomato plants have progressed to producing red tomatoes. That sounds delicious.
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