First, here is the spot emtied of the dead tomatoes...
And here is the Winter's Pansy Bed in the same spot. Might as well use it for something...
I have saved a dozen for the deck pots... Some of the best. You'll see them growing and blooming soon.
First, here is the spot emtied of the dead tomatoes...
And here is the Winter's Pansy Bed in the same spot. Might as well use it for something...
I have saved a dozen for the deck pots... Some of the best. You'll see them growing and blooming soon.
Pics of yard and flowers...
Yucca bloomed! Doesn't happen every year.
The tomatoes are growing fast after finally getting planted a few weeks ago.
I dug this up. It was probably lost while the house was built 37 years ago.
Apparently, they like the spot...
The daylillies are blooming...
And the hydrangeas are still blooming.
But fewer this year. I should divide and refresh them.
The new butterfly weed has returned again for a 3rd year. I planted 6 once, but this one loves the spot and keeping showing up.Meanwhile, I have a Fall crop of flat italian beans emerging for Fall harvest. Need to plant snow peas, broccoli and garlic soon.
And then there are deck flowers. I haven't planted the pots with the new ones yet, but there are perennials.
The Oriental Lilies exploded the past few days. From nothing...
It will spectacular in a couple days.
And there is a volunteer in one deck pot from last year! I will give it special attention!
And the lettuce/celery/pak choi trays are doing well outside now.
Well, the blooming season has finally started!
The Stella D' Oros lilies started first...
The light stand in the basement is filled with trays of flower seedlings... The lights were off for the night, so it looks a bit strange.
I think I missed watering those above recently. They look a bit wilted. So I watered them after taking the pic.
The Crocuses were in full bloom in the lawn and beds. The very earliest Daffodils were opening their flowers...
The Daffodils beds are almost ready...
I went through my photos and picked out early and prime-growth pictures of the fenceside perennial bed. I'm glad I separate my processed pictures into years/month/subject. I have one folder for just "Yard/Garden", LOL! But there are too many to post all at once, so there are 2 posts.
About 30 years ago, I decided to establish a flowerbed along the fence, about 50' long and 6-8' deep. I had a rototiller, but it wasn't a good one. It would go in reverse (even though there was a lever for that) and would only go 6" deep at best. I hired a guy with a BIG DRIVABLE ONE and he got down 12". I dug in amendments (compost, peat moss) myself afterwards.
I planted annual flowers and a few shrubs for a few years, but that got massively tiring after a while. So I decided to switch to perennials. I knew little about them, but studied garden catalogs and made some choices. Some worked well, some not so well ("perennial" can be a bit vague sometimes - from 2 years to nearly forever). A few years later, I studied more concerning "expected lifetime" and chose those 10+ years. I also added a small 5' plastic pond.
Some are 20+ years and still growing well. So here are the early pictures of the bed. There may be some repeats of one flower or another, but I will try to delete those.
While I was outside with The Mews, I laid back and looked up. I thought the tree branches and the clouds were kind of nice. Nothing import...