What's happening in your garden today?

[big rockpile]

I was ready to get a bunch done today. But!

Thought I got some seed in yesterday, got a tray ready, open the package wasn't seed. So much for that.

Well I'll repot some Trees. That went well but used all my soil.

Was going to put some water in my barrel. It was frozen.

No problem mix up a batch of soil. Well froze.

So finish out my day telling what I didn't get done.

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I've been buying Wood Chips by the Truck Load for mulch.

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[Sean Regan]

Nothing today, as nothing needs doing at the moment. Just had a walk around looking for anything that wasn't just green.
This by the front door is in a plastic pot, in the largest size of Apta glazed pot they do.
We've an azalea and a rose in similar sized plastic pots which will get their turn.





A bit of colour in the troughs on the patio.





These troughs will get an examination for any rot, (unlikely) and another coat of paint, as will the pergola posts, and the tea-house, once the weather warms up. It will make them look a bit more "glossy."

Three years ago, a friend bought my wife some primroses in a pot for Christmas. Once they'd died off, I replanted them "here and there," in the border, there's about half a dozen of them and they do very well each year. Lots of bluebells starting to come up along the same border.
I need to jet wash this brick edging. But I'm trying to keep off the grass at the moment, to give it a chance to get growing after the scarifying.





This is one of our three quinces on the side fence, it's always the first to blossom, won't be long now.







This "stands guard" at the end of the other side border, in the constant shadow of the tea-house, so very little sun, but always seems to thrive on neglect.





My phlox plug-plants are doing well on the shed window sill. I won't move them to the rockery for at least a month.

 

[Anniekay]

I got my new rose Planted, that long bed weeded and mulched. Then I weeded two other beds, fertilized everything in them and added more mulch.

This is the new Rose :

It's a Climber.

I hope it comes out the color it looks on the tag. It was bare root wrapped in sphagnum moss.

 

[Jersey Devil]

Anyone ever grow tuberous begonias in a planter before? Whats with the root system. I can't believe how they take up the whole planter and its impossable to get them out. One of those projects where you say, "Lemme take a few minutes to do this"....2 hours later

 

[Anniekay]

I grew them years ago @Jersey Devil but I didn't like them enough to keep growing them. I just have one geranium inside the house. The only reason I have it is because it was on the reduced rack at Lowes and only cost me a buck.

It get tiny little flowers, if you look closely you'll see a bud sticking up.

 

[big rockpile]

Planted some little Daisy Seed.

Figured out most flower seed is to be surface planted.

Well thought I had buch rain water but found it had frozen and broke my buckets. So run my barrel full of tap water.

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[Sean Regan]

We bought some Begonias as plug-plants last year, I think from Sutton's Seeds. The plugs could have fitted in a thimble and half of them had dried out before they were delivered. A complaint git us a voucher with which we bought two hydrangeas.
The others survived and eventually did very well.

 

[Sean Regan]

I noticed yesterday that a few of our clematis are producing some new growth, I may tidy them up a bit and remove any bits that I'm certain are dead.

 

[Anniekay]

We bought some Begonias as plug-plants last year, I think from Sutton's Seeds. The plugs could have fitted in a thimble and half of them had dried out before they were delivered. A complaint git us a voucher with which we bought two hydrangeas.
The others survived and eventually did very well.

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You made out alright on that deal !! I had ordered 5 Camellias three years ago. Somehow, the order filler person must have skipped down to the next order half way through my order because I got three camellias, a daphne and some sort of groundcover hedging. They sent me my two missing plants but the other two didn't suit my climate and died.

 

[Anniekay]

Planted some little Daisy Seed.

Figured out most flower seed is to be surface planted.

Well thought I had buch rain water but found it had frozen and broke my buckets. So run my barrel full of tap water.

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If your bucket is plastic, that cheap plastic, they will crack when the water expands from freezing. One of my trugs split this winter and it was a cheap plastic, so I bought better ones from Gardeners Supply to replace it. My Gardeners Supply trug survived freezing .

 

[Logan]

Replacing 3 old redcurrant bushes with new ones. Just cut the old ones down and started digging them up.

 

[Jersey Devil]

I didn't like them enough to keep growing them.

I'm surprissed you don't care for them. I got bulbs from Tulip World, they grew to be two feet high in no time and looked exactly like roses. The bulbs were big. Although I did have trouble keeping them going late in the season. Just one bulb in a medium size pot looks awesome.

 

[Anniekay]

I'm surprissed you don't care for them. I got bulbs from Tulip World, they grew to be two feet high in no time and looked exactly like roses. The bulbs were big. Although I did have trouble keeping them going late in the season. Just one bulb in a medium size pot looks awesome. View attachment 3156

If I lived in Jersey or at least as far north as N. Carolina, I would like them better. It's too hot here for them and I have enough pots to worry about that I really don't need them, but they are pretty.

 

[Anniekay]

So far today I got 4 trays of plants outside hardening off. I trimmed my 8 hedges in the front foundation planting. The sun got too hot for me to finish with weeding and fertilizing those two beds. I can do that tomorrow.

So, I set off to the west side of my potting shed (in the shade) where I have one of my thornless blackberry beds. Three blackberry plants made their way under the Gardenia and out to the front of the bed. First one I yanked on broke and I ended up on my backside in the grass !!

After I got them out, (huge sets of roots on them,) I cut them back to two buds and stuck them in a trug with water in the shade. Then I weeded that bed, fertilized the blackberries, fertilized the big Gardenia on the end of the bed and got a couple bags of mulch on there before I totally pooped out !! I need to put three more bags of mulch on that bed and I'll be done with it.

Oh, and I cursed a blue streak when I saw that a dang tree rat, known to most as a Squirrel, had dug up one of my plants !!

 

[big rockpile]

If your bucket is plastic, that cheap plastic, they will crack when the water expands from freezing. One of my trugs split this winter and it was a cheap plastic, so I bought better ones from Gardeners Supply to replace it. My Gardeners Supply trug survived freezing .

I should have put them up. I was putting them under an eve that didn't have guttering and should have known what would happen.

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[Anniekay]

All I've done so far is water the bedding plants that I put in last week and water and weed my raised beds. It's so much easier weeding with a spray of water to loosen up the roots of the weeds. Then I put out a whole wheelbarrow full of seedy weeds that will ruin my compost. Then the City came and picked them up with some other excess tree fall I had in the yard. They always come by my house at the last day of the month.

Later this afternoon I'll be puttering around outside and do some more stuff. I have plenty left to do !!

 

[Zigs]

Tetters got me an exterior wood burner a few days ago @Euphorbia king




It was painted blue till I started using it, don't tell her

 

[Anniekay]

Tetters got me an exterior wood burner a few days ago @Euphorbia king


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It was painted blue till I started using it, don't tell her

You need to shoot some holes in it for air to get to the wood. A shot gun at 3 paces does a good job .

 

[Zigs]

You need to shoot some holes in it for air to get to the wood. A shot gun at 3 paces does a good job .

I drilled 2 holes until the hole saw went blunt

I could give this to Tetters and then hide behind it