Seeds for Christmas!

Molly and Santa brought me seeds for Christmas!

Cut and Come Again Zinnia
Fruit Smoothie Zinnia
Purple Prince Zinnia
Pinwheel Zinnia
Giant Flowered Zinnia
Fordhook Favorites Nasturtium
Gazebo Cosmos
Strawflower
Early Call Morning Glory
Mixed Flowers - Rainbow colors
Summer long Basil
Garlic Chives
Mediterranean Oregano

First Snow!

First Frost

Woke up to ice on the deck this morning. Moved the herbs inside. Giving away cut dahlias like crazy!

Peonies

Old Time Peony Collection (White Flower Farm Photo)

Today I planted the 3 peonies that arrived from White Flower Farm - white, pink and red. The first of the fall blooming crocuses is up and purple. The garlic is sprouting which apparently is okay, but the anemones are also sprouting which I think is a problem. Looking online to find more of those, I'm worried these will fail. The dahlia is going to town - covered in red blooms with white tips. Once the frost kills it off I will need to figure out whether to to put the bulb in the ground or a pot next year - maybe the basement stairs are a good temperature for this?

Bulbs



Angelique Tulip (White Flower Farm photo)

  

Champagne Diamond Tulip (White Flower Farm photo)



Lemon Glow Daffodil (White Flower Farm photo)

Big day for bulb planting! The White Flower Farm tulips (Angelique and Champagne Diamond), Lemon Glow daffodils, ipheions, and Lily Naturalizing Mix all arrived. Luckily I had Mom's bulb planter which helped a lot. I got permission from the homeowners to plant on the south side of the house so I dog up the grass sod-style in chuncks and then replaced it after planting. I hope flowers are strong enough to grow up through the grass! My new south garden will include the tulips, hyacinths in white, ranunculus in all colors, 10 of the lilies, and now I've forgotten but I think there were more daffodils in there. In the front of the house I did a few patches of 5 lily bulbs and 5 daffodils because the packaging said they can handle part shade but I'm a little skeptical about this. At the corners I put patches of crocus and ipheion - all very small blue, white, and purple flowers that I think will bloom around the same time in the spring. I hope they bloom! After planting 100+ bulbs my whole body is sore!

Fall is Here

Temperatures are dropping. I'm starting to think about bringing the herb garden inside. I have planted some daffodils and crocuses (from Job Lot), irises in the pot on the front stoop, and the fall-blooming crocuses from White Flower Farm. The tulips will arrive in the mail soon. My morning glories are still okay and I'm harvesting a ton of seed pods. The calibrachoa is hanging on as well. The dinner plate dahlia bloomed last week (finally!) although the blooms are probably 5" across instead of 12". It's almost as tall as I am! The sunflowers are struggling at best - I've thinned them out a lot, and the cosmos don't look very good - sort of leggy.

Herb Roasted Chicken with Sweet Potato Risotto and Bread

Succulents!

Bought at Highland Farm:
Sedum Cauticola "Stonecrop"
Sedum Spurium "John Creech"
Yellow Ice Plant
Hens and Chicks

Bought at the Rose Shack:
10 purple, white, and yellow crocus bulbs
10 white and pink daffodils

Lily of the Valley

Mom let me dig up some of the lily of the valley from behind the house to plant at my house! I will put it between the front steps and the bulkhead to the basement to keep it from spreading. I hope to have more success than my last attempt - last year I tried growing from pips in a pot and not a single one sprouted.

Job Lot bulbs

Anemone Decaen x75 - white, red pink, blue
Narcissus x12 - mixed yellows
Crocus x50 - white, purple, blue

White Flower Farm Bulbs

Ordered from White Flower Farm:
Champagne Diamond Tulip x6 - Peach/pink
Angelique Tulip x6 - pale pink
Fall-Blooming Crocus Mixture x25 - yellow, purple, white
Constellation of Blue Stars Ipheions x50 - blue and white
Lily Naturalizing Mix x25 - warm tones
Lemon Glow Trumpet Daffodil x6 - pale yellow
Old-Time Peony Collection x3 - red, white, pink

Hurricane Irene

  

 

 

Pansies still Rocking

Morning Glories Like Woah

Garden Update

Time for Mojitos with all that Mint

First bloom in this basket of Morning Glories - pale blue!

Dahlia's taking off. I had to tie it up to the railing.

Morning Glories in Bloom!

Flowers

Dahlia and Celosia

Morning Glories

Calibrachoa, Scaevola, Morning Glory

The Morning Glory is growing up!

Hibiscus

Hibiscus and Petunia

Asiatic Lily

Petunia

Sunflower

Sunflower and Lily

Asiatic Lilies and Fog

Asiatic Lily

Fog on our street

Dahlia still not doing much

Perhaps I overplanted the Morning Glories?

July 1 update

The Calibrachoa is going to town!

All of the seeds I have planted

Sunflowers, Cosmos and Poppies should be growing here.

June 21

The herb pot is going nuts! Basil, chives, mint, oregano, rosemary

Sunflowers in the back, asiatic lilies and coreopsis in front.

Dahlia surrounded by... I can't remember what those are called.

The morning glory is starting to poke up out of the hanging basket