Saturday, May 23, 2020
Gardening
We're in the middle of spectacular warm sunny weather finally, so of course it's time for gardening! Yesterday we worked all day (well Mrs. F.G. worked all day and I put in a good two hours or a bit less), and got most of our planters planted. It feels like the beginning of spring, birds calling and leaves bursting out overhead.
Yes, I was put to work as best I could on one of the wheelchair height planters. I've still got my leg in this damn splint as the surgeon thought another two weeks would be better.
This is most of the planter I was working on, looking good now, but still with veggies to come up in the vacant spaces.
This patch is typical, yellow beans at the back, three Marigolds, and three fragrant herbs - lemon thyme in the lower left, rosemary in the middle, and purple sage in the top right (along with a giant ladybug)! If you run your fingers through any of the three herbs, you get a really nice fragrance.
One of the lower planters, planted by the head gardener. We have totally changed our roles from our last home where the under gardener did all the work and the head gardener made all the decisions, to now where the head gardener has to do 95% of it, and the under gardener makes a tiny contribution where he can.
Our trailing clematis survived the winter. This variety is not a climbing vine but trails over the side of the pot.
We've also got a pot of lavender that is greening up nicely.
Our son has transformed into a gardener and grew quite a few tomatoes from seed this spring. These are two of the ones he gave us. planted in large pots separately.
Our little magnolia hjas been doing well, ...
... but our little rhodoeendrons are disappointing. They look scrawny with no new growth and only 2 or 3 tiny blooms.
And our ornamental dogwood looks even less promising, with no sign of leaves coming out at all. Time will tell. Hope you're enjoying weather as nice as we are, and getting your gardens in if you haven't already.
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I'm having trouble getting plants. The large garden centre I usually go to closed last year and the 2 grocery stores near us have both closed in the last couple of weeks because of virus outbreaks in their staff. The few smaller places I've gone to had huge line ups. Hopefully this week will be better.
ReplyDeleteYes, your gardens look wonderful. I was curious if you were still in the brace, and now I see you are and have a couple more weeks with it. I hope you enjoy your long weekend in the middle of a long pandemic. :-)
ReplyDeleteRole changing, as life situations alter, you look so well out there, almost in summer gear. That raised bed is a carpenter/builder's masterpiece, and with veges and flowers, this is a delight.
ReplyDeleteThe best picture is you smiling in the sun!!
ReplyDeleteYou have a great smile! Your gardens look great. I am the planner, hubbers is the planter in our garden. Enjoy the warm weather.
ReplyDeleteThat's great that the gardens are up high enough for you to work in them. Nice job and nice to see your happy smile!!
ReplyDeleteYour garden should fill in nicely! Great photo of yourself too.
ReplyDeleteI think you did amazingly well, and far more than I did, I might add. And I can't use a splint as an excuse!
ReplyDeletethings are looking great. You've given yourself a weeding job for the rest of the summer.
ReplyDeleteNice to see your smiling face out in the sunshine. No sign of life on the dogwoods up our way as yet. The maples are all in full leaf thanks to this heat.
ReplyDeleteYour planters look good. They'll be filled in fast. Take care and keep digging in the dirt how ever you can.
ReplyDeleteThose planter boxes on your deck were such a great idea in more ways than one. Maybe a few Butterfly bushes close by as well to bring Butterfly's within camera range.
ReplyDeleteEverything is coming up 'roses', it will be surprising how quickly things grow now with this lovely weather!
ReplyDeleteJust wait a month and you'll have plenty of blooms. Down here there's a virus killing a lot of rhododendron, we lost two last summer and it only took a month from the time the first branches died until both plants were dead. Another rhododendron in the yard shows no symptoms -- yet.
ReplyDeletethe dogwood does look promising!! you look so happy and your gardens look amazing, how wonderful that you can reach everything!!
ReplyDeleteHaving that planter raised at that height does make you have to plant. It works well. You bought some huge tomatoes. Mine are so small but our weather will grab a hold of them and turn theminto big plants quickly. It is fun to finally get the real spring started.
ReplyDeleteEverything is looking good...it is fun to see what you two are doing.
ReplyDeleteWith temps hitting 37 C last week yesterday's little storm front brought welcome relief. Back in the 18 low to 25 high was glorious today! You are looking good. Doctors, what do they know.
ReplyDeleteYou just do what you can! Hope you get your splint off soon! :)
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