Trying to keep up with blooms and weeds!
celeste/NH
6 years ago
One thing is for sure, this year has been the complete opposite of last year. I haven't had to water once which is wonderful.....but the weeds are out of control and I'm not worrying about them this year. Blooms are popping too fast to keep up so I'm stashing photos on my computer for later. Here's a few for now:
JERRY HYATT, always a great bloomer here
GLORY IN RED (much larger than this photo conveys!)
IRVING SCHULMAN
Several of you asked about CASCO BAY DELIGHT from an earlier post, wondering if it was new. It is indeed NEW and has been great. The tall, thick scapes don't even sway during some pretty bad thunderstorms with high winds. This is it the morning after a bad storm:
SPACECOAST BLAST OFF
HEARTS AND FLOWERS
JIM BROWN
RUCKUS
KITTY BANNERMAN
GAVIN PETIT
I HAVE TO CONTINUE IN THE COMMENTS BELOW.....
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celeste/NH
6 years ago
WILD ONE
STRING THEORY (this angle makes it look short which it isn't)
KING KAHUNA
PEPPERMINT TRUFFLE
JOHN KARL SEAGER
FORSYTH SUMMER SNOW (huge white with green glow)
DESTINED TO SEE
CHINESE SCRIBE
GOLLIWOG
LEOTHA
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Comments (18)My garden is about 1,000 square feet of planted area. And I have very few weeds. My friends are the scuffle hoe, the Rogue Hoe and a Warren Hoe (Pointed hoe.) I use one of them every day except Saturday on all the bare spots in the garden and up close to the plants. I don't work in the garden on Saturday. The Scuffle Hoe gets weeds before they sprout. The Rogue hoe is better when the soil is moister and it cuts any weeds off below the surface. The Warren hoe is something I use just once in awhile when the soil is too moist for the other hoes. It takes maybe 10 minutes a day to do the entire garden. Weeds seldom get a chance to grow up except among the tall, crowded plants like beans. Every so often, I pull the ones that poke out the top, but there aren't many of them. Be careful about hoeing the day after it rains as that can compact the soil. You can see a video of me using the scuffle hoe here: http://www.youtube.com/user/bnaiorpueblo#p/c/64D03F492F3DBF8E/0/10jJxyDFWPQ...See MoreClueless Southerner trying to keep a lawn
Comments (3)My lawn is full of violets too. To bad you missed the bloom. You yard would have been full of violet blooms in March & April. I my neighborhood it's all hard alkaline clay and the neighbors lawn all look the same. About the extend of work the lawn services do is mowing the lawn and light pruning and small tree removal. It's rare to find a 'showcase' lawn in Somerset, the 'good ones' simply mean they are newer homes that have been sodded more recently. I'd like to know what that grass is though because I have that grass mostly, with a few small patches of fescue here and there. Actually I just finished mowing and inspected my lawn more closely. I have almost 100% fescue and only a patch or too of whatever grass that is on your lawn. This post was edited by AgroCoders on Wed, Jun 18, 14 at 14:42...See MoreThe Plants That Won't Give Up Trying To Bloom
Comments (10)Did I see that Dawiff? Did you say you are starting over with a new garden and it's totally fenced? hoping you won't have to deal with the 4 legged things? Dream on girl, dream on. If the groundhog finds his delights in your garden, no fence in the world will keep him/her out. Remember they dig under ground, live under ground, make miles and miles of tunnels under ground. No obstacle is to big, to high, to low or dug down to deep to prevent them from filling their stomachs. And just to make life more miserable for us folks, they will climb a fence if they have to, to get their favorites. I just that "Chuck" would decide to climb my chain link fence and get him/herself empalled (however you spell it) on all the sharp spokes on the top of it. I know, not nice, but after the destruction I have had, the tree that came down next door today in the wind and soaking rains, and get told that it was a healthy tree with barely any roots to hold it cause the ground hog chewed up all the roots; well it's hard to feel compassion for them. So how late can you plant perennials in your "new found warm zone'? Thinking that if it's long enough and late enough, I might be able to get those daylilies you have wanted from my yard, and I don't want, dug out and shipped priority mail to you in the fall. If not this fall, then you will be stuck with them next spring. Sooner, don't think that a groundhog can't get into really small places, trust me they can flatten their fat bodies and squish through all kinds of places that you think it coudn't fit through. Valiche, I've been looking forward to the blooms on my vesuvius for a long time, just hope no one decides that the buds will taste better than looking at the flowers. Poor "Miss Lupin" had another tough day. Even in the rain, the groundhog was sticking it's body right behind her and waiting to attack. Twice I screamed through the door to scare him/her off and hopefully their are 2 flowers left. Fran...See Morecan't keep up with weeds
Comments (3)I've been really frustrated with weeding too, living on 2 acres with lots of grass to invade beds and lots of flower beds I kept up with until I was gone for the whole month of June one year and all the grasses went to seed. I spend a lot of time I don't want weeding, but I've seen progress in a few beds that actually don't need weeding this year. It's largely due to groundcovers but sometimes to just having the perennials close enough to each other to really fill in. I like Pulmonaria for that, they have lovely spring bloom and then nice variegated foliage and self-sow, but are low and complementary to other perennials. As Hortster points out, gc that really fill in are by nature invasive. I use some invasive things that still don't overrun perennials. Herb Robert is one that helps, probably regarded with horror by most, but it is very easy to pull out and really covers ground. Then I have a little wild violet with heart-shaped leaves that spreads fast and is very low. I also use some variegated Vinca Minor, Acaena saccaticulpula "Blue Haze", Acaena inermis purpureum, Ajuga, and in the fall I sow corn salad in beds, at least here it grows all winter and is edible, then makes tiny white flowers in spring and self-sows, then disappears. It helps occupy ground so the weeds can't in early spring. Another wonderful plant in that respect is Anemone nemarosa, a rhizome that makes a nice clump 3" tall, and is covered with flowers in early spring, shutting out weeds, then goes dormant by summer and disappears. I'm marking where I have nice clumps and digging in late summer and spreading them through my beds. I'm spreading a couple of other gc's in one bed as an experiment, Lamium maculatum "beacon silver", and the tiny wild lawn daisy Bellis ? that blooms a lot, clumps up, and self-sows. I have Columbine sown from seeds (and they self-sow) that sometimes I regard as a weed, especially when I have to trim off all the spent flower stalks, but I have a dwarf form that stays low. They are blooming now and make all the beds look like fairy-land. I'm planning to collect all the seeds and spread them all over one very weedy bed that has come up solid grass, in hopes they will shade it out over a few years. The foliage is nice, a blue green low clump. Anyways, that's my current strategy. Nancy...See Moreceleste/NH
6 years ago
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