My flowers! #11: Lilies and lilies and daylilies!
Some of them are so similar but at the same time very different1 and some daylilies! and this last one, the very common one:
My flowers! #10: Vignettes of my gardens!
Lately, when looking at my gardens, all I could see were the WEEDS!!Between the rain and being otherwise occupied on different projects, I haven’t really done much in them! And over the last few weeks, even to take pictures was a question of time!!! So I wasn’t really enjoying my flower beds at all. Could not see the point of even trying: too much to do everywhere else! Well, yesterday, I saw my place through the eyes of two young children (5 and 7 years young) and their mother! What a ...
My flowers! #7: More flowers!!
Meadow Anemone, Round-leaved Anemone, ... These grow wild around here and in a lot of nurseries they sell them for $15.00 a plant! This one is “strawberry spinach”. It is it’s 3 rd year and doing really well And a few poppies: And this year I have this “brown” poppy! So far 3 plants!!!??
My flowers! #3: Irises
Talk about an undemanding plant! At least the ones I have!I have some growing in gravel on the side of the driveway, coming from under a log on the side of the weep field, in established flower beds (where they do get a bit more care) and growing wild around the property! I thought their color was a bit off until I saw the wild ones and I find that this year, their colors are a bit paler! Very commune ones: By the driveway: At the edge of the shade garden!!
My flowers! #2: Late may bloomers
A few of my flowering plants!I do have wild plants mixt in with the shade plants! Barberry bush in bloom! Primeroses In the shade garden: Saxtile Alyssum et forget-me-not! Bugleweed and ground covering sedum
Magnolia
This magnolia (grandiflora?) is about five years old. My wife started it from seed. Quite a process. She took the fruit from the tree in September, removed the pulpy red outer layer to reveal the seed kernels. She then put them in a ziploc with some moist potting soil and stored it in the fridge until the end of January when she potted them. Only 3 out 12 sprouted. They grow very slowly. In researching the project we found that the seed kernels may take up to 18 months to sprout (if a...
My "Turtle Island" #2: The Schematic
One step closer, I made a little visual of the layout for my garden of the year. I have yet to determine what plants I want to include but this will give me an idea of how many types of plants I will need to fill the space. I hope so anyway. Input is greatly appreciated.
My "Turtle Island" #1: The Before Picture
Jan. 10, 2008 A goal for 2008, for me, is to focus on one flowerbed and fill it with the shrubs and flowers that I want for years to come. The selected garden is the “triangle” between the two paths that I put in the backyard last year. At the south point of the triangle is my rock “turtle” which I have planted blue fescue around to simulate water. The furthest line of the triangle will run from the rock on the top right of the picture which is the first r...
My Carolinian Forest #1: My Trees
My neck of the woods, in Southwestern Ontario, is the very farthest northern tip of the Carolinian Forest. (Another half hour north of me and the environment has changed.) “Carolinian Forest” is exactly what the name says—- forest from the Carolinas. Due to farming, nature, and man’s stupidity, we have lost a lot of the Carolinian trees in this area so my goal is to make my own little Carolinian forest in my front yard. My property used to be a farm, and has s...
Our Flower Gardens #1: Planning Ideas
My goal for my backyard is to have no grass and all paths and flowerbeds (etc.) A great vision – a lot of work – and not much else re: the vision. So far, I have dug up lawn in patches, thrown in a few plants/bulbs/sculpture element and stood back and smiled. All has been random without much of a direction re: what the gardens will look like. But, yesterday, I had a thought… or perhaps it was a vision or maybe an inspiration. “Create an overall image”̵...
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