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Comments (19)I don't have a lot of newly-blooming plants in the garden, but stuff continues to flower. No frost yet here! Anemone tomentosa "Robustissima": My other Japanese anemone shows now signs of flowering, although the leaves look healthy. I've been getting some nice morning glory blooms, finally: The New England aster is still going. I've noticed for a while now that if I look at it in the morning, the bees are stumbling around on it, seeming dazed: Geranium "Rozanne" still going strong. This one seems to have decided it wants to be a wisteria -- it's clambered five feet up a trellis to bloom by the Sweet Autumn clematis: Marigolds are doing great. It's nice to have such a vivid color in the garden this time of year:...See MoreShow us your gardens - a photo thread - October 2012
Comments (35)Teresa: That's a pretty little aster, do you know its name? It looks like a double version of the single aster 'Fanny' that I have and that's blooming now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The tumbled bluestone pavers are about 2 inches thick and I'm setting them on a 3 inch bed of coarse sand, so I excavate 5 inches, throw in sand, and set the pavers so they're flush with the ground. For the joints I add sand or sand plus gravel or sand plus little stones from the excavation. The heavy pavers are very stable once they're set, but they are heavy, I repeat, heavy! The pallet is a collection of different sizes and shapes so you have to work with what you get and fit them together somehow. The first pallet I bought several years ago was mostly irregular pavers of medium size and I expected the same for this new batch. They just had a partial pallet on view so I didn't see the total content, I was mostly looking to see the quality. I used a different landscape supply company this time (the other one went out of business) and I was surprised that this batch was mostly pavers 12 inch by 18 inch, with a fair share of smaller ones. This made it tricky since I was trying to fill in the earlier path with different shapes. It's easier where I'm heading off into new territory and don't have to match a different set. If you do use tumbled bluestone you probably should ask to see the actual pallet so you know what you're getting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Piles of pavers of different sizes and shapes, but all of roughly the same thickness. I've already used most of the 12 inch by 18 inch pavers. The finished path under the piles is made from irregular shaped pavers, some old, some new. The finished path here is almost all made of the original pavers - they're a different shape and are nicely weathered. This area in my alley is half done and the stones are all from the new rectangular batch. The ones on the right are set and the ones on the left are laid out waiting for me to get there. It will probably take me several days to finish (did I mention those things are heavy?). This will be a work/storage area. I put a little landing at the bottom of my granite steps (that's a wet footprint on one paver). My original path also got overrun with grass. I had tried to set it with pavers alternating with grass; carefully spaced to match my stride. That didn't work - I mostly ignored the spacing and stepped wherever was most convenient. The grass also kept trying to swallow the pavers. This time I'm filling in all of the original grassy spaces and expanding until I run out of stones or my body quits, whichever comes first. This may be much more information than you wanted, but you did ask. Claire...See MoreShow Us Your Gardens - A photo Thread - August 2015
Comments (45)Actually no, the cucumber and summer squash seeds were not saved (by me) seeds, but came from an organic seed place, as I had not grown either in some years. It is interesting that many people have asked me what would happen if I planted the hybridized seeds. I have no idea what the answer would be! Actually hybridized mixes do occur the same year. The flowers need pollinating between their own flowers in order to develop fruits, and if pollen from another compatible species gets mixed in, the fruit will develop accordingly. My neighbor one year had a family of pumpkin/winter squash fruits that were the result of winter squash in his garden mixing with a hill of pumpkins accidentally sprung from Halloween pumpkins discarded the previous fall in a nearby weedy patch. They probably weren't edible but they made interesting curiosities on his porch railing that autumn! By the end of summer, my red, orange, and yellow nasturtium blossoms have always given way to many multi-toned specimens, as if nature took a watercolor paintbrush to them and painted streaks of orange on yellow and red on orange. When I plant the saved seeds the following year, the blooms revert to separate red, orange, and yellow blooms. These are seeds I've saved for some 8 or 10 generations now. It is remarkable how many sources on the web deny that cucumbers will cross pollinate with zucchinis or summer squash. All I can say is come look at my cucumbers with their yellow coloring and crooknecks, and tell me where, if not from their neighboring heirloom summer squash, these genes arose! The mysteries of plant biology!...See MoreShow us Your Gardens - A photo thread - October 2016
Comments (10)Ah, Sped... my last house was near woods, which is a wonderful place to walk. In the woods behind our house was a meandering and through massive stones left behind by the glaciers. One "group" of stones was actually a single huge stone that had broken into four massive sections that were very tall and about one/two feet apart. The kids used to love running and winding through those spaces. Here, we have distance views and open spaces but no peaceful woods. The nine grasses that we planted give an architectural presence to what's basically a flat, open yard. None of our grasses get any attention from us, so I can't say which environment they prefer. They do get a great deal of sun. The one you like is, I think, a miscanthus (?). We cut it up a year ago... it was huge and also bare in the center....and replanted a tiny section. That has really spread in one season. When my grandson moved back to the US from Ireland years ago, he was a "wee lad" and a bit intimidated by that huge grass. He always called it "The Witches House." And so that's what we've called it ever since. Defrost, is that rosemary one that you've had for several years or just a recent purchase that you want to keep? I tried growing rosemary inside once. Not successful. We haven't good lighting for indoor plants because of the set up of our house and also no garage. I hate to throw things out!...See MoreNHBabs z4b-5a NH
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