Spring In The Garden
jerijen
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
This spring, following a historically-dry winter, has been something of a revelation. It's the first time I can remember when the first Calendar-Day of Spring coincided with a veritable explosion of roses in the garden. I treasure this in particular, as we draw closer and closer to water-use restrictions that will cost us some roses.
I posted some images yesterday . . .
Here are some of the things the garden offered, this morning:
'Gloire Lyonnaise' after four days in the vase
'Annie Laurie McDowell'
"Baretta St. Bourbon"
'Belle Story'
"Benny Lopez"
"Barbara's Pasture Rose"
'Cymbelline'
'Eugene de Beauharnais' (aka "Le Grande Capitaine")
'Eugene de Beauharnais'
Spring Morning On The Hillside 1.
Spring Morning On The Hillside 2
Spring Morning On The Hillside 3.
'Lady Ann Kidwell'
"Old Town Novato"
"Old Town Novato"
"Old Town Novato"
The past few years, we've had a big spring show of California Poppies . . . Not this year. The failure of rain . . . Eschscholzia californica
'White Pearl In Red Dragon's Mouth' (Chi Long Han Zhu)
"Setzer Noisette"
"Setzer Noisette"
'Bloomfield Abundance'
'Gloire Lyonnaise'
'Gloire Lyonnaise'
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Comments (19)Sara - glad you joined me in a joint order, and I know your garden will be lovely with all those Queen of Sweden bushes. This recent rain will definitely make them happy, and they're off to a great start in your hands. All of our gardens have evolved over time, so be patient and enjoy the growing time. I'm glad you got to catch the tail end of my spring garden, and I appreciate your kind comments. Ingrid, you're so sweet - I'm glad you enjoyed the pictures! In warmer zones like yours, you can't grow tulips and other spring bulbs, so I thought I'd share some of mine with you. You have an exquisite sense of taste and balance in your own gardens, so I appreciate so much your kind remarks about the harmony and flow in my gardens. I am woefully unartistic in any other sense of my life (can't draw worth beans), so I love your label of "garden artist'. Truthfully, I'm just the hands and it's up to the Maker of the garden for the actual artistry in action. Still, it's fun to be a part of the process and sit back in wonder at the surprises waiting in the garden at every season. My first roses bloomed this weekend - Quadra actually beat out Felix Leclerc (who is usually first), and in a cold part of the yard to boot. Time to move into summer mode! Cynthia...See MoreRhode Island Spring Fower and Garden Show
Comments (13)Bill and others, It seems we're all saying the same things but I'd like to add some extra thoughts: 1. I agree with what most posters have commented so far -- not enough plants, way too heavily focused on 'home' and 'crafts' and honestly, crap. I only found one stand that was selling bulbs, and two stands selling air plants (for ridiculous prices, at that). 2. The major presenters (on the top floor salon 'd') were very uninformative. One, the Beekman Boys (?), chatted about their trials and tribulations of beginning a lifestyle property in New York, but then made their entire presentation centered around their quirky attitudes in such a small farming town, and how they 'single handedly' began a farm fair. It would have made a great documentary, but they didn't necessarily "present" any new information. Another speaker that I was eager to see was an employee/tree manager for the sponsors of the garden show. In his presentation, which was described as an informative lecture on proper tree maintenance, he blabbered on and on about the various properties he's trimmed trees on, showed (and at times, tried to show but skipped over) some embarrassing photographs of dying trees. It seemed the only thing he was saying was "people grow trees improperly", rather than "this is how to properly grow trees". 3. I agree with muffin that the garden club competition had some interesting displays, but hell if you could see them properly. The lighting in the 'showroom' was awfully dim, drowning out the colors of most flowers that weren't lit from other sources. All in all, there were maybe 2 or 3 garden plots that caught my eye. One was the dried herb stable, the other was the display with the peach tree (oh my!), but for the most part, it seemed like an antique car + arts and crafts convention. Not worth the $19 dollars I paid to go. Luckily, I parked in the city and didn't have to pay for that.... I had planned to go a second day but realized it just wasn't worth the money. Won't attend next year's unless someone on this forum has something better to report....See MoreSigns of Spring in My Garden
Comments (12)Thanks for the good advice and congrats on your all native garden! The whole issue of watering natives is a biggie for me. I've already had several Ribes die on me for what seems no apparent reason, but I'm pretty sure it was a watering problem. My garden started when I moved in to my present house in 1973. There weren't too many nurseries where one could find native plants and the plant catalogs started arriving. I wound up developing obsessions to have a garden devoted to rhododendrons, so I did Rhodies for quite a few years. When they became too big I traded that obsession in for others as I moved on in succession to shrubs, grasses, roses, perennials, dwarf conifers, Rock Gardens, bamboos, Restios, Heaths and Heathers, and anything else that caught my fancy, I've almost never been attracted to native plants, though I'm happy to say I've found some I like at last, and I do have some older Manzanitas that have outgrown their spaces. Over these many years I've grown a lot of plants and I've learned a lot- and a lot of plants have wound up shovel pruned. I've quite the best garden I've ever had right now, but I can't afford to keep watering the mostly non-natives so I've been working at transitioning whereever something outgrows it's place....See MoreSpring in our garden! Please share what you have growing.
Comments (14)I really can’t remember, but I would say early spring to put seeds out. Maybe even Feb. Once they grow and bloom, let them go to seed and you’ll have them the followIng year. They get very ratty as they get old and have to be pulled out. I’ve got quite a mess going this year, But they are so cheerful, and I know people walking by enjoy seeing them too.One thing I have noticed about California poppies is that the foliage looks like carrot tops, and when you pull them out you’ll see that the roots even look like carrots. Are you going in nurseries now? If you are you could buy a potted one if you saw it. I’m not going in nurseries, but I did order a few things for pick up at Armstrong’s....See More
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