Pictures from April 2019, only 3 months to wait till next spring
at least here in Germany...end of March I will be out again , searching for pips :-)
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Is this a good plan to create a BIG no-till plot by next spring?
Comments (16)1000 SF is approx 20 x 50 feet, that is not so big that she couldn't use a "lasagne scheme" as Adirondackgardener calls it! I am using lasagne techniques all over the back yard. I find it is simply the easiest (albeit slowest) way to create new beds without tilling, weeding, etc. especially when you are starting with overgrown areas that are infested with invasive plants and weeds. Not to mention the seed bank that has accumulated! I start with a weedy overgrown mess and lots of Vinca minor, then I dig up and cut the small trees and shrubbery, and then smother with a couple layers cardboard or other paper. Then pile on coffee grounds, compost, leaves, straw, garden refuse, etc. I do not buy ANY of this, it is all collected from local sources. Sometimes I mow the weeds and Vinca down real low first, sometimes not. In the way back, where it's totally gone wild, I want to make some gardens of native wildflowers and grasses. That is VERY weedy - with some terrible intractible invasives like Buckthorn and Oriental Bittersweet. I am using bags of grass clippings picked up at the town compost center. I open up the bags and lay them down flat, then spread about 2 inches of grass clippings on top. The grass clippings are so dense they kind of congeal and make an impenetrable layer. This is an experiment so I don't know how well this will kill the weeds yet!d Well see. Optimally, I wait about 1 year before planting in lasagne, but they can be dug up a little and planted before that. Things are growing so well in the lasagne beds, it has exceeded my expectations....See MoreWas going to wait till Spring, but the fall came mean deals!
Comments (9)My inclination would be to repeat selections from the border along the house front in the kidney-shaped bed. This would provide a more unified look for the front of the house - in my backyard anything goes. LOL. Here I think you need a neat coordinated look between the two beds. I would select the most interesting architectural looking shrub from the front house plantings and reuse it on the left side of the new bed, then select two plants from the perennials already used, one taller than the other, or with contrasting foliage, and plant groupings of 3-5-7 (depending on eventual size of the perennials and the size of the new bed) of each type. You could use two rows, or my preference, two clusters somewhat offset from each other in the middle of the bed. Another way to go would be to tie the colors closer together - decide on a color scheme, pick out the main color and accent colors and then reuse it, or a part of it, in the new bed. You can play around with changing the amount of the individual colors that you select. This is another kind of repetition which helps to unify the garden and works especially well when the bed conditions are different (so it is difficult to use the same plant from area to area). BTW, it is hard to tell in the picture but I believe that you also need something tall at the corner of the house. I would think an evergreen. There are not too many choices in zone 5. but an upright juniper, pine, arborvitae or yew would work, or another deciduous tree with a small cluster of evergreens in a semi-circle in front or to the side of it. You could then echo that evergreen in the new kidney-shaped bed, but selecting a squater version....See MoreUPDATE: update: mnf: waiting for spring #3
Comments (150)well...I opened up Wendy's box and was blown away...my family is saying that my eyes are glazed from overload..."L" Here's what's in my box: a butterfly wind sock on a stick an angel statue (I'm going to put it in the remembrance rose garden for my grandmother) gorgeous butterfly windchimes made out of gems (all sparkly and shiny) ceramic mushroom (it's so cute) hose guide stump planter with blue bird (it's adorable) goldfinch pothanger (already hanging) jiffy pot pellets 2 (I've never seen these before, they're cool) note cards with matching flower pens (you can never have enough of these) lavendar Fields fragrant sachet (in my closet) raspberry garden green tea chocolate hazelnut tea (can't wait to try these) tea coupons AND Bunch Flowering tulips and then there's the SEEDS! (I swear I started drooling) mexican cigar plant plumbago blue angel viscaris coleus rainbow mix dwarf MG moss rose double (drool) lt blue joker pansy zinna red spider dwarf teddy bear sunflowers farewell to spring godetia cosmos lilac bleeding heart cleome rose queen lady lavendar (drool) thyme russian sage (more drool) peppermint stick zinna (flooding the floor) nastrurtium Empress of India (WOW) sugar snaps viola charityland Mt. Bluet catnip Isisensata mixed (gotta look this up) schizanthus (gotta look this up too!) Himalayan poppy (drool, drool) sweet annie artemisia (love this, used ot use it in the flower shop) chicory Bird's eye (overtime drool) blk eyed susan vine california poppy clarkin Mt garland (sounds interesting) english lavendar (yummy) lemon Mint alyssium goldea tuft (I have never seen this) viola bowles black berlandiera Ivriata (another looker up) oregano scarlet sage geranium splish splash AND Ptilotus exaltus Joey ****FAINT**** I'm in seed heaven...what a wonderful box Wendy, I'll be playing for days! Thank you so much! ((HUG))...See MorePost your 2019 Spring bulb pictures here!
Comments (173)mazerolm, people tell me I have a short growing season! You must have a love for the garden and flowers to make the effort in z3. It's all looking so good! This year I've had some "no shows". Maybe because of our record breaking rain? Last fall I planted 50 Muscari, comosum plumosum and 10 Ornithalum that I haven't seen yet. They may still show up, but the clock is ticking! Still have alliums around the yard.... One patch of white giant alliums..... Hyacinthoides hispanica...See MoreKarin Black Cat
4 years agoYes, it's War Paint, I love the spring colour! Unfortunately it goes green around end of May already...
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
4 years ago
newhostalady Z6 ON, Canada
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoKarin Black Cat
4 years agoAnn,
pips in February are not unusual here. Normally I start checking mid of February. At htis time of the year I can find tiny pips on Blue Angel :-) This winter is very warm and I wonder if some hosta might start sooner...
newhostalady,
I never had problems with insects in the pots on the ground. I have a few 30l pots that are too big for my plant steps and so I have no alternative than the ground. If a pot is too high I put smaller 'normal' pots inside.
This is a shallow pot I use as a mini hosta garden
some are in small pots in bigger pots...I learned that small hosta are best kept in small pots, but I don't want them to look lost, tiny as they sometimes are. I love to put them together with maple seedlings
Karin Black Cat
4 years agoA Rhus Typhina is planted in my biggest pot and I sometimes put small hosta pots beneath the tree.
The best about pots is that I can rearrange everything that is not to my liking, or give plants a better place when I notice they do not like it where they are.
You can use all kinds of pots as long as you have a good soil mix and the pot has a drainage hole
Tortifrons liked the shell pot
Sometimes I use shoes...
Karin Black Cat
4 years agoLemon Linme is growing in a pot with a maple...
They started their friendship in 2017 in another pot
Broken pot with Sempervivum
Wooden box for grenades
Old salad bowl
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
4 years ago
djacob Z6a SE WI
4 years agoKarin Black Cat
4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoThe big pot is covered with moss and grasses and the occasional neddle :-)
There's enough room left for small hosta pots, for example Silver Threads and Golden Needles. I like the contrast of the fresh green to the black Ophiopogon.
I had used the big pot the winter before I palnted the tree as kind of compost heap and then simply added soil and covered it with moss. The tree loved it, it was so small in spring...
and nearly 2m high in summer :-)
There's also a Red Baron gras in this pot, maybe i need to replant if it does not get enough sun with the tree growing bigger.I stick the pot into the soil and do not remove the hosta. I need to replant this pot, then I will plant them into soil without the small pots. They should have enough roots now to go without further protection.
Someone said I'm an experimental gardener :-)...that's true...
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada