Things are looking good!
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Here are a few garden shots of the backyard:
A few more to come
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What looks good/bad in your garden, February 2013?
Comments (20)Thanks for looking/commenting Kevin and all. I love that 'Monterrey Frost' agave too, so nice and impervious to the recent cold. Yay. My 'Hercules' aloe definitely has tip damage too. It's been in the ground for six years and has grown a ton--I'm excited to see the blooms and to see that it's finally branching. I'm sure yours will do the same too. Now for something that looks (looked!) bad, and then good. I'm tired of the "dwarf" oleander around part of my covered patio, so this weekend I ripped them out (big job) and replaced them with fifteen rosemary plants, and added 1000 lbs of gravel mulch. I cleaned up the arbor too and planted honeysuckle, which is thriving on a trellis nearby, and I finally added some pavers underneath the arch too. I'm embarrassed about the "before" pic, but with the holidays, a month of houseguests, this awful weather and my work things just got nasty, hah! It took all weekend but now it looks better. Not great, but better. Happy gardening all, keep the updates coming! BEFORE: tired, sickly, abused "dwarf" oleanders and an orange that unlike my others never looked good. Not the open soil under the archway. Shame shame on me, hah! AFTER: not perfect, but better. I removed the sickly citrus, and the oleanders and replaced them with rosemary which does so well here, and has great scent and blooms and color. I also added pavers under the archway and planted two honeysuckles (Lonicera japonica) at each side. Last year I had all sorts of different vines on there--quite a mess. The recent cold snap took care of that so out they went, plus I cleaned up the remaining twigs (tsk tsk tsk)....See MoreMarch 2014 what looks good/bad in your garden?
Comments (40)Fun new pics and posts all, keep them coming. March is a great time of year in the garden here isn't it? Love it! "Stuffed" is the right word to describe my patio, dusti, LOL! Guilty as charged. :) Good luck with the clivia and Schlumergera outside. Mine always got very cranky by late summer so I kept them inside for summer now. Keep us posted and post lots of pics! I've tried Aeonium nobilis a few times before, Cesar, and mine always failed (died) in late summer due to the heat. I have great success with Aeonium arboreum (the common, popular types and hybrids) but my nobilis always died on me. I keep all of my aeonium plants very dry in summer when they're in a heat induced semi dormancy (and they look awful, hah!), but the arboreum types revive in autumn and then I give them more water. Good luck with yours--do keep us posted! Great looking tomato plants, timber. Nice and vigorous! Just for fun here are some aloe blooms open right now. I purchased the plant without a label quite a few years ago. It's one of my favorite aloes so I have planted a dozen or two of its offspring (from pups/offsets) all over the garden. Great peachy/apricot color and branched bloom stalk: And here's something NOT looking great, lol, tatty pomegranate foliage which has been visited by leaf cutter bees, LOL. They do this every spring and I don't really mind as the plant eventually outgrows it. Happy gardening all! Grant...See MoreJuly 2015 what looks good/bad/awful/wonderful in your garden?
Comments (21)OK, I have uploaded all my pictures and written most of my comments down twice now and had issues where safari reloaded and wiped out my post making me start over. Im going to do this in 3 or 4 seperate posts in case it happens again so I wont have to start over completely. My pineapples are doing great. I tried to force them to fruit about four weeks ago there is absolutely no sign of success. I have read that it can take up to six weeks to flower after doing the "apple technique" but I'm thinking it didnt work. The One in the middle was just planted a couple days ago and is already getting new leaves. I'm probably going to need to transplant the larger one to a bigger pot or into the ground soon. My wisteria is doing much better now that I put shade cloth on the west side of it. The people at Moonvalley nursery I still swear to me that it can be a good vine for my pergola and can take the sun as long as I establish a good deep root system but it just seems like the foliage might be too delicate for our sun. If anyone has seen these take full sun or live on top of the Pergola in our area Id love to know about it. I may need to just end up replacing it with Tangerine crossvine....See MoreNovember 2015 what looks good/bad/great in your garden?
Comments (18)Those cantaloupes look great, I wish I had more room in my back yard for more spreading plants. Here's a few pics from my back yard this month: My tropical guava is in the ground now and I thought these tips looked pretty cool (I think it's a sign of cold stress?) I got yet another perennial spinach plant. This one is called Longevity Spinach (Gynura procumbens). Here's my other spinach, okinawa spinach. My Michelia alba is still blooming. I love how the smell lingers in the yard when there's no wind. Ylang Ylang is still doing pretty well even though it's been out in a few 37 degree nights. One of my ice cream (Blue Java) bananas is growing a flower. Hopefully it slows down a little to miss the cold in Dec/Jan, but I doubt that :)...See MoreRelated Professionals
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