Fall 2012 in My Citrus Garden
hoosierquilt USDA 10A Sunset 23 Vista CA
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Comments (26)Luckygal, Congratulations on all your planning, forethought, and hard work. It is really paying off! You gardens are beautiful, well planned and manicured. Looks wonderful. I love your flower photos. Going to try the Monkshood this year. I grew three Delphiniums last year and was amazed at how well they did here in Oklahoma, even with a horrid drought and triple digit temps. Everyone here told me they couldn't be grown. Just shows to go ya. I hope they come back, but even if they don't, they bloomed all season long and I enjoyed their beauty immensely. I love Yarrow. They grow wild here too. Most are white, but once in awhile I find some which are a pale pink or lilac colored. I also allow it to grow in places in my gardens. It is lovely and the white is so blousy and showy. However, I have difficulty growing the cultured type for some reason. I do have one clump left of the Coronation Gold that has lasted for more than ten years. Bought some of the Paprika last year, but it kicked the bucket in mid-June after blooming, then the hens dug it up. Darn! I would love to have a curved bed filled with large boulders and multi-colored Yarrow with some tall Coneflowers and/or Gloriosas here and there in the back. And some fine-leafed ornamental grasses, mayhaps. Ha! Ha! I bought several pots of Walker's Low Nepeta last year (on sale at a summer's end sale in July). I couldn't decide where to set them at that time and with all the family issues still brewing and the extreme heat, I didn't have time to garden that much, so they were just left in the little plastic pots and never got planted. They have sat there under the big Ash tree on the South side of the house and have pretty much been neglected, except for an occasional watering, and yet they are still green and looking pretty ding-dong good! That just blows my mind! Now I know where EXACTLY where I will plant them this Spring. If they are that hardy, I am sure they will do well in my garden! (If I can keep the chickens and cats out of them, that is). I really like your combination of the Dusty Miller with the Munstead. Looks terrific together and they would be very compatible. Awesome! I grow Munstead not only for the beautiful flowers and fragrance in the garden, but I also make tea from the leaves and use the Lavender blooms to make Lavender Sugar for cookies, cakes and teas. Pound Cake sprinkled with Lavender sugar before baking is absolutely scrump! Enjoyed all your pics and comments. Good luck with your Labyrinth. That sounds like a very big project! I wouldn't know where to start!!! ~Annie Thanks Hon!...See Morewanted: wants 2012 fall mag swap
Comments (5)I'm in charge of landscaping at my daughters school and we had some casualties so I'm looking for replacement plants for those that died:-( Here's my list: lambs ears, black eyed susans, liriope, Autum Joy sedum, coreopsis any kind...See MoreFall Garden 2012: Any update?
Comments (7)Chandra, This is a hard question to answer. Because of the extreme heat, this is likely a year in which it is smarter to plant the fall garden later rather than earlier, but there is no guarantee that veggies planted late will produce. That's true in any fall though. The first fall freeze is highly variable. At our house it has come as early as the last week in September and as late as mid-December, though our average is around Thanksgiving. Most of the time we will have one or two cold nights with the first frost or freeze, and then another month or two of good weather. So, I tend to plant later than recommended because of the summer heat, and then I put row covers over plants when that first freeze arrives, and they generally survive and produce just fine if I can get them through that first round of cold nights. I guess it depends on how much you want to gamble with your pea and bean seeds. Personally, I think it is worth the gamble because most years even beans planted late will produce a crop. Even if they don't, they are good for the soil as they decompose. The southern peas and beans I planted almost on time are only about 8-10" high because they have grown very slowly in the horrid heat. I think they are starting to perk up and grow a bit more quickly since we have cooled down some. There are no guarantees with a fall garden, but I think I get enough production from the fall garden to make it worth growing. The beans will take longer to produce, generally, than their DTMs indicate, because autumn days are getting increasingly shorter and have less intense sunlight. So, if planting beans now, I'd choose those with the shortest DTM I could find. I usually plant Royalty Purple Pod bush bean because it seems to produce really well in fall's cooler temperatures. As for edible podded peas, I haven't tried sugar snap peas or snow peas for fall, so cannot comment on how they do. I usually only plant southern peas in mid-summer for fall production and they do fine. If the autumn weather stays nice and mild, I think cool-season peas might produce well, but that's just a guess. You always can harvest and eat the pea shoots though even if you don't get pea pods before the weather shuts them down. When I am trying to decide whether it is "worth it" to plant a fall garden or not, I just ask myself how I'd feel if we had a long, mild autumn with a late first freeze and I hadn't planted a fall garden. The answer, of course, is that in those circumstances, I'd regret not planting a fall garden. So, I guess what I am trying to say is I would go for it and hope for the best. Thanksgiving is roughly three months away. That leaves us lots of time to grow a lot of good veggies in the fall garden. Dawn...See More2012 Denver area Fall Swap - better late than never!
Comments (22)Hi all, Finally finding time to get back here to post! MISTY -- I can't be sure because of the wide color variation, but I believe your first hen & chicks pic is of 'Icicle', and the second pic looks like the one I call C to me. I'm fairly sure on both of them, but would need to see "spring" pics to be positive! I have you down for the things you asked for, and let me know for sure about the 'Icicle', but if yours usually looks like the pics I'm gonna post below in late spring, you already have 'Icicle'. BARB -- you're covered on the 'White Nugget'! POLYGONUM -- could you possibly snip a handful of yellow iceplant cuttings off of yours for Misty and Lesuko? Most of mine suddenly died off last year--as I've warned folks can happen!--and while I could get "some" cuttings off of mine, they're really "wimpy" looking right now, and it sounds like yours is doing really well and would provide better cuttings! If that doesn't work for you, let me know and I'll bring some of my wimpy ones! Let me know if you had time to check out your semps! A couple of them I only got one "batch" of, so they're already spoken for, but I still have A, E, G, H, K, and 'Icicle'. Gonna post some pics of 4 of them below! LESUKO -- I have you down for one of everything I posted above--with the yellow iceplant from either Polygonum or me! I have LOTS of cuttings for most of the sedums, so, except for a couple of them, I'll have a really nice bagful of each for you--along with the directions for what to do with them! Will also bring a nice big bunch of the bare root Ajuga for each of the first three, and will have at least a couple starts for the 'Black Scallop'. Also the hen & chicks--with directions, the 'White Nugget' iceplant, and I haven't done them yet, but probably a start for the Turkish Veronica. Virtually everything I have this time is ground covers, so it won't really get anything going on in your yard vertically, but it will help to fill up some of the bare soil, and you can always dig them up later and give them away to somebody else when you get around to planting other things! With your strawberry runners, no, they don't need to be attached for them to root, so snip some off and bring them along! All you need to do is "tuck" the bottom of the offshoot into the soil and let it root so they don't really don't really need the "runners" attached, but if there's some runner left on it, it can be used to help "anchor" it into the soil until it roots, so you might want to snip them with some of the runner still attached. Don't know how many you have, but you might want to make up a/a few "little batches" of them for "picking." I also have 11 "perennial" things in pots, like I mentioned above, and while some of them are just rooted pots of the sedums I posted above, there are a couple things I didn't post--and I'm gonna keep them secret till the swap--but I know folks are gonna want them! :-) And I also dug/pulled some bare root "something else" today that I'll have three "batches" of--and I'm not gonna tell you what it is! They're currently residing in the vegetable drawer in my fridge--since they're bare root! Oh! And also got a really good batch of seeds from one of my perennials this year that I seldom have enough to give away--is that an illiterate sentence or what?--so I made up some seed packets to bring of "that," and one other thing that folks are usually interested in! And that's probably it for this time! I'm not a big fan of Cold Hands Gardening, so I probably won't be poking around out there looking for things anymore--gonna try to get the Ajuga dug/pulled tomorrow, hopefully before the front moves in! And, since it's gonna be cold out by Thursday, I collected the hen & chick starts today and I was able to get more of some of them than I thought I would! Since only one person has expressed any interest so far, and since there are probably only gonna be about 6 folks at the swap, I'm gonna post a few more pics of the ones I have more than one "batch" of, so even if you don't ask for them in advance you can look to see if there are any you'd like to get on the day of the swap. As you can see from these pics, the color varies GREATLY depending on the time of the year and the winter temps in any particular year! I'm just posting the small version of the pics, but they should all be clickable to see the bigger versions! A - I have 4 batches that aren't spoken for E - I have 5 batches that aren't spoken for K - I have 4 batches that aren't spoken for - winter color - summer is all "blue spruce" color! 'Icicle' - I have 5 batches that aren't spoken for A few more pics! I really do have a lot of most of the sedum cuttings! Sedum 'Tricolor' in summer and winter color on the right side of the second pic Sedum 'Angelina' summer and winter colors Sedum album - the Dangerous One! Plain green in summer, this is winter! Sedum reflexum 'Blue Spruce' - same in summer & winter! Sedum pachyclados - same color summer & winter! Sedum 'Dragon's Blood' - Plain green in summer - this is where the name comes from! (Don't have a whole lot of this one!) And two of the Ajugas! 'Royalty' 'Chocolate Chip' Don't have a good pic of 'Arboretum Giant' but it's pretty much plain green leaves that are about twice as big as the 'Royalty'! And not gonna post a pic of the 'Black Scallop' or everybody will want some--and I don't have a whole lot--yet! Not gonna bring a lot of the Ajugas unless I know somebody wants them! Will bring a couple "bunches" in addition to the one of each that's already promised, so if you want more, let me know! Skybird P.S.!!! Almost forgot this one! Delosperma basuticum 'White Nugget'...See Morehoosierquilt USDA 10A Sunset 23 Vista CA
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