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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2018 3:25:30 GMT
WOOOOOO-HOOOO.
I got the annual Schreiner's Iris Gardens sale catalog last week.
Today, I placed my order. Ten rhizomes only. Two blues, two bright yellows, three pinks, two white with apricot shoulders, and a bi-tone.
Such restraint.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2018 3:34:45 GMT
On the other side of the ledger, I have raised and will give away 2 deep purples, 4 orange, 2 stippled pinks, 2 parfait, 2 plum selfs and a plum parfait, and a bag of indeterminate rhizomes. I still have pastel parfaits and gold and white ringed falls that have yet to be raised. I also have a place for the incoming rhizomes.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2018 3:42:23 GMT
The gold and white ringed falls -
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2018 3:47:02 GMT
Pastel bicolor - 'Celebration Song' Apricot standards and orchid falls, with a bright ginger beard.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2018 3:50:12 GMT
Both of these varieties 'overproduced' this year and are crowding other garden denizens (roses, mostly).
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2018 3:54:01 GMT
This one, 'Tulip Festival', a classic bicolor with white standards and canary yellow falls, also 'overproduced' this year and is crowding a walkway, but I took out some and parked them in a barrel, so I needn't lift any to gift....
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Post by Kye on Jun 19, 2018 11:21:10 GMT
So pretty!
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Post by Mari on Jun 19, 2018 16:37:52 GMT
The yellow ones look like narcissus. Narcissi? I love those.
Oh, daffodils the English word is.
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Post by JoeP on Jun 19, 2018 18:06:42 GMT
The yellow ones look like narcissus. Narcissi? I love those. Oh, daffodils the English word is. Botanically or horticulturally I think daffodils are a particular kind of narcissi .. or the other way round.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2018 20:19:41 GMT
The yellow ones look like narcissus. Narcissi? I love those. Oh, daffodils the English word is. Botanically or horticulturally I think daffodils are a particular kind of narcissi .. or the other way round. You got it right the first time. Daffodils are narcissi. As are jonquils and ganymedes. The names vary by locale of application...they are 'common' names.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 19, 2018 20:23:27 GMT
The yellow ones look like narcissus. Narcissi? I love those. Oh, daffodils the English word is. Yes, the yellow reminds one of narcissi. I like narcissus because they are the harbingers of real, honest-to-goodness spring. I have been naturalizing tiny, miniature 'Tete-a-tete' narcissus throughout my garden for years. My problem is that I tend to dig them up when I try to plant something else....
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Post by Mari on Jun 20, 2018 9:37:43 GMT
Yes, that happens to me too. We planted them for our wedding as they were our weddingflowers. This year with the weird weather, they all died before flowering
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 22, 2018 21:54:35 GMT
Well....The cannabis are all 'above the grid' in their respective pots.
I have 'grid supports' as plant supports on each cannabis pot. When I planted them last week, only one of the six was large enough to peek over the top of the grid. This week, all six have a cluster of leaves above the grid.
In other news, I have an outbreak of some kind of disease (it looks like 'rust' fungal diseasse) that is taking out the miniature hollyhock mallow plants in the 'mater patch. It has not affected the tomatoes, or other plants, in the 'mater patch, and it has not affected the biggest stand of mini hollyhock mallow in the eastern fence bed.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 23, 2018 2:29:23 GMT
In the front, the cornus kousa has finally gone into the fade. Instead of pearly white, or even blush pink, the bracts are now turning off-yellow tan and falling off.
I'm going to have a bumper crop of kousa berries.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 23, 2018 18:12:40 GMT
I finally got the Chinese iris moved from just off center of the eastern fence to the northern end. A portion, so it should look as though I have tall, straight sentinels on either end of the mass of rose, honeysuckle, and clematis.
Removing the iris also garners me a walkway past the lilac to get to the stone boneyard, where I have chunks of broken walkway stacked against the foundation concrete of the garage that backs on my property.
So, I moved out a couple of chunks that fit in well on the walk from the walk to the pad. I'm thinking walkables, like Irish moss, for the interstices. There is already some Sicilian mint started in two places along the way....those got saved.
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Post by Mari on Jun 25, 2018 16:49:42 GMT
My tomatoes cracked.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 25, 2018 17:44:11 GMT
'Cracked'?
How so?
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 25, 2018 19:20:25 GMT
Well, the miniature hollyhock mallow is coming in to its peak...as is the star jasmine.
Both have been sputtering along with a bloom here and there, but today, they are producing multiples.
The mallow is still blooming despite mallow rust defoliating most of the plants in the 'mater patch. The ones in the eastern fence iris bed seem untouched. So far.
I'm shuffling concrete bits around again, trying to prepare for a possible raised bed where the 'lawn' is.
I still see Murray out there lounging in the tall grass and gnawing on bits here and there. He quite likes his 'lawn'.
I just figure I'll have to provide him a low, broad pot, a basin, as it were, with grass....one big enough for him to sleep in.
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Post by Mari on Jun 26, 2018 6:09:11 GMT
The wind was too strong and the supports too weak, so they cracked. I wonder if the tomatoes will still ripen...
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 28, 2018 18:44:54 GMT
The wind was too strong and the supports too weak, so they cracked. I wonder if the tomatoes will still ripen... The stems cracked? I don't have any fruit set yet, but you might if you are hothousing. But, if that were the case, wind would not be an issue. I've had plants survive such, but it was later in the season and fruit weight was part of the problem. Wait and see, I guess.
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Post by Kye on Jun 28, 2018 18:58:08 GMT
Like this, Mari?
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 28, 2018 21:22:37 GMT
I stumbled across this: therustedgarden.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-repair-damaged-tomato-stems.htmlI think it is too early for most anybody to have ripening fruit of any real size, unless they are in a hothouse. As noted, if in a hothouse, then wind would probably not be a problem. I was wondering this at first, too, but I remembered my tomatoes suffering stem damage during wind storms and suspected such was the case here.
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Post by Mari on Jun 29, 2018 6:11:53 GMT
Actually, the stem cracked right at the bottom of both plants. Who knows if the tomatoes will survive. I have dozens on them, so I hope so.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 30, 2018 14:34:23 GMT
Another overcast morning.
It looks like I need to attend to the corners, where weeding has not been as thorough, probably because it doesn't fall in to the ready view from either viewing station.
Then, there is always the front....*sigh*
At least both Murray and Cleo are luxuriating in their favorite back garden gargoyle locations.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 30, 2018 14:42:34 GMT
I've been telling myself that I need to start a 'garden diary' and keep track of what blooms when.
I was recounting, in my own mind, the 'high spring' show in my garden, focused around the end of May and early June, being mostly the iris, followed almost immediately by the first bloom of the roses. Of course, I also pegged in my mind that the cornus kousa (Chinese dogwood tree) was in full whites during that period, and the styrax japonicus (Japanese snowbell) also bloomed about that time.
But I have a lot of 'incidental color spot' plantings, like the alstromeria (now blooming) tucked in to corners where I wish I'd never put it, and the crocosmia with which I have have had an ongoing struggle, the woodland hyacinth, forget-me-nots, and foxglove, and little secrets, like the strawberry lawn that seems to be doing quite well next to the front steps.
One of these days, I might just get my act together.
I could probably use this thread to track most of what has happened this year....
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Post by Mari on Jun 30, 2018 18:03:36 GMT
That's what I was going to suggest. Meanwhile, we've been banned from watering the plants due to extreme drought.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 30, 2018 19:08:58 GMT
A distinct improvement in the path to the concrete pad.
Extreme drought? That sounds....
*looks concerned*
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Post by Mari on Jul 1, 2018 10:01:36 GMT
Well, I'm sure extreme drought here is different from extreme drought in Africa where people starve and everything green dries, but if I'm not allowed to water for the next couple of weeks with this weather, my potted plants will die. The garden plants can take a hit I suppose.
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Post by JoeP on Jul 1, 2018 11:41:28 GMT
Are you not allowed to water at all? Britain only has bans on using hosepipes in drought conditions (and not yet, as far as I've heard). I've never heard of bans on watering cans here.
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Post by Mari on Jul 1, 2018 14:27:45 GMT
Surely the idea is the same: you shouldn't use drinking water, which is scarce, for the garden.
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