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October 2014 how does your garden grow?
Comments (26)Thanks raimeiken, glad you like the amaryllis. I got it as a single radish-sized bulb in 2000. It's actually in a large pot although you can't see it from the pics, I just noticed. I've split it several times and love to share it out. It's slow to get established but once it settles in it just grow and blooms and grows and blooms. Awesome new pics, Kevin--you grow a lot of really great plants. I love all of the brickwork too. Nice captions/narrative too. Thanks for taking the time to post all of the pics! Just for fun, here's a quick pic along the east side of the house: And a fun six-pointed stapelia seedling from my hand pollination of stapelias (S. grandiflora x S. gigantea). It's not super unusual to get an occasional 6 pointed flower instead of the usual 5 pointed ones, but it's still fun when it happens. Some leaf lettuce seedlings, and ferociously-blooming "Mexican heather" (Cuphea hyssopifolia) along with some I'itoi bunching onions in my little round veggie bed. Happy gardening all, keep the updates coming! Grant...See MoreHow Does Your Tropicalesque Garden Grow?
Comments (26)Thanks thistle5! We have lots of summer sunlight. It gets warm during the daytime (85-90 F.) but cools off at night (45-60 F.) here in the mountain valleys. Humidity is quite low, so I'm surprised how well the tropical plants do. The Trachy palm seems to thrive on hot days and cool nights, because it's growing like a weed. I've only had it in the ground as a 2 gallon-size plant for about 5-7 years (I can't remember) and it is 9 feet high already, and bloomed for the first time this year. Unfortunately, I must dig all of the cannas and elephant ears every Fall, but they reproduce to the point that I sell about 800 rhizomes each year to a local nursery....See MoreHow does your Garden grow?
Comments (9)OakleyOK - tell me about the topiary on your porch. I haven't been brave enough to put a shrub in a container yet, b/c I'm afraid that I would kill it. But I really like that look. I'd like to try some on the back patio. I've started a tradition (2 years now - does that make it a tradition?) of taking a day off work each spring to work on a landscaping project. The first year I created a new bed on the north side of the house. It is doing great. This year, after much inner conflict, I decided to use my day to make a vegetable/herb bed. I actually made two beds. I spent my day off and several weekends digging up bermuda and amending the soil. I do think in the long run, it will be nice, but my garden was a bust this year. I'm a little bummed b/c I used so much of my (teeny amount of) free time and so much energy for practically no return. The weather is so nice right now, I'm anxious to go outside and plant a few shrubs to make myself feel like I made progress this year! Somewhere I have a few photos, but we have switched computers and I never seem to have anything where I need it!...See MoreHow does your garden grow? (Part 2)
Comments (45)Looks like I'm not going to get too much from the tomato plants again, but I do think I'm going to get a lot of peppers, especially the chile arbole. I'm not getting much from the basil, and I planted quite a bit. Next year I think I'll just plant basil seeds, as I got better plants when I did that. I used to have an artichoke plant in the back yard, but it got weird after a few years, and I removed it. The first year there weren't too many artichokes, but they were a nice size and very good. I cut them with stems a long as possible and cooked the stems until they were tender. After a few years, the plant branched out too much, and the stems weren't as tender. I do think that the 'chokes in the market have stems that are way too short. Lars...See Moreriver_city
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