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Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Woodinville Cares!

by Anne Laurie|  June 12, 20164:49 am| 26 Comments

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opiejeanne 16may lupine

Programming note — some of these pics came through on my email upside-down. I flipped them in Photoshop, but I don’t have the skills to keep your smart-screens from “correcting” them back to the original orientation.

More bounty from faithful garden commentor Opie Jeanne:

opiejeanne 16may volunteer chives

Volunteer chives, foxgloves, and baby lupine in the gravel

opiejeanne 16may beans starting

Beans just starting, volunteer lupines

opiejeanne 16may rose bed

New rose garden. 3 years ago this had a dying pine tree and some English ivy (invasive species here) and a row of elderly lavender, also dying. The rocks were there and we salvaged a few of the old lavender and added a lot of young plants. Had to fix the drainage in this part of the yard before we did anything.

opiejeanne 16may woodville cares sign

[Ed: That can’t be a juggler leading the parade, can it?]

opiejeanne may16 corn bed

Corn bed, alpine strawberries

opiejeanne 16may obelisk bed

opiejeanne 16may last lilacs

Last of the Lilacs, just a week ago

opiejeanne 16may dreaming

Dreaming of bunnies

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Here north of Boston, I’ve got almost all the mail-order tomatoes transplanted, but now all the rootpouches need to be slide-puzzled into place before they’re tall enough to require laddering. And I can’t finish moving them until the Spousal Unit finishes pruning as much of the godsdamned overhanging nuisance oak as he can reach from a ladder, which it’s my job to hold… if I’m not back on the blog this evening, assume the worst.

Speaking of future posts — there’s a bunch of pet pics waiting to cheer up our mornings, but as best I can tell from my disorganized email, the only gardening post now in the queue is a blog-link from Peter Cook. So, if you’ve got garden photos, this would be the time to send jpgs to annelaurie at verizon dot net.

What’s going on in your gardens this week?

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26Comments

  1. 1.

    Baud

    June 12, 2016 at 4:53 am

    Nice, OJ. Pics all look upright on mobile.

  2. 2.

    Elizabelle

    June 12, 2016 at 5:01 am

    Just beautiful. Happy Sunday, all.

  3. 3.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 12, 2016 at 5:14 am

    The pics look fine on Chrome on my PC. The lupines remind me of my visit to the Huntington(I signed up for a membership last week) and the kid and I saw a wild lupine on our hike to Echo Mountain. I used to see alot of them when I was growing up, but that was the first one I’d seen in decades.

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    Jeff

    June 12, 2016 at 5:22 am

    I have a yard that has plants all over the place where I rather they not be coming up. This year I decided to let them do what they want. I give up. They win.

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    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 12, 2016 at 5:23 am

    @Jeff: I’ve resorted to chemical warfare on the wild bermuda grass.

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    June 12, 2016 at 5:35 am

    Screw firing up a program as heavyweight as Photoshop for something as simple as flipping orientation. Use Irfanview (free!).

  7. 7.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    June 12, 2016 at 5:44 am

    @NotMax: Tend to agree, using photoshop to correct orientation is like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly.

    ETA: Win10 has that built into the File Explorer.

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    JPL

    June 12, 2016 at 5:46 am

    The pictures are beautiful and what a labor of love.

    @Jeff: I have visions of selling the house and driving by a few years later, to discover all the holly and bamboo back. Plants often win.

  9. 9.

    JPL

    June 12, 2016 at 5:52 am

    There was a shooting in an Orlando gay nightclub. Police are saying to expect mass casualties.

  10. 10.

    rikyrah

    June 12, 2016 at 5:59 am

    Good Morning ?, Everyone ?

  11. 11.

    Mustang Bobby

    June 12, 2016 at 6:25 am

    My brother and his family live in Woodinville and every time I visit I marvel at the lushness of the gardens and the flora that grows there. Thank you, OJ, for sharing.

  12. 12.

    raven

    June 12, 2016 at 6:27 am

    .@JPL: Sounds like an explosion too,

  13. 13.

    Baud

    June 12, 2016 at 6:29 am

    @raven: I saw online that that was a controlled explosion by the police. Not sure what that means or why they would do it.

  14. 14.

    OzarkHillbilly

    June 12, 2016 at 6:33 am

    Sigh…. to have such a well behaved garden…. sigh….

    Just beautiful Opie Jeanne

  15. 15.

    JPL

    June 12, 2016 at 6:37 am

    Police are going to give a briefing at seven.

  16. 16.

    OzarkHillbilly

    June 12, 2016 at 6:40 am

    @Baud: It means they blew up what they thought might be a bomb.

  17. 17.

    raven

    June 12, 2016 at 6:44 am

    @Baud: Got that now, dude could have been barricaded in and they flash banged him.

  18. 18.

    satby

    June 12, 2016 at 7:05 am

    Beautiful garden Opie Jeanne! I love lupines.

    @ Ozark, JPL, and Jeff: yeah, I’m barely fighting back this year. When the weeds get such a huge head start in spring like mine did, I’ll be lucky to fight them to a draw.

  19. 19.

    Emily68

    June 12, 2016 at 7:35 am

    Re: the juggler leading the parade. I live in Seattle and I’ve seen a number of street signs telling driving to look for pedestrians. Then person/persons unknown put a decal or something on the signs so it looks like the pedestrian is doing a hula hoop. I’ve seen this quite a few times and it still makes me chuckle.

  20. 20.

    MomSense

    June 12, 2016 at 8:05 am

    Lovely photos, OJ. It’s cold here this morning and I think it might be raining a bit but I’m too cold to go out and check.

    I’m dressing the perennial beds with compost today. Yesterday they got a nice fish fertilizer bath. The peonies haven’t bloomed yet but the size and quantity of buds has me hopeful that this could be a spectacular year.

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    Gvg

    June 12, 2016 at 8:06 am

    We were house hunting for 2 years so I didn’t do anything fun or interesting on my garden, just controlled weeds as I could. We finally found a new one in parents neighborhood which needs some fixing or we couldn’t have afforded it. So contractors who don’t show up and 1/2 the time for both. New house has some invasives which I need to get controlled now before it gets worse. Also poison ivey which umm complicates other weed control. That’s almost fixed.

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    Schlemazel Khan

    June 12, 2016 at 8:23 am

    I love lupine and that is a great example! The one down-side I have found is that lupine tend to kill a lot of other flowers they come in contact with. It raised hell in my flower beds. After the country remodeled I am having to completely rebuild and so my last lupine bloom just finished this week.

    That looks like a pretty spiffy garden set up you have there, way more ambitious than I am.

  23. 23.

    debbie

    June 12, 2016 at 9:00 am

    Beautiful, beautiful pictures!

  24. 24.

    Scout211

    June 12, 2016 at 9:36 am

    The pics are all upside down or sideways on the iPad, but perfect on the Mac.

    Beautiful gardens! I really envy the lush, green gardens that you see in many parts of the country. It is dry season here and everything is brown except for the few areas (like the raised bed veggie garden) that get needed water from our drip lines.

  25. 25.

    Scout211

    June 12, 2016 at 9:40 am

    Re: dreaming of bunnies . . .

    We had to rescue a little baby cotton tail from our cat this week. I was shocked that he went after a rabbit. And horrified.

  26. 26.

    opiejeanne

    June 12, 2016 at 5:25 pm

    @OzarkHillbilly: Ha! I don’t point the camera at the still untamed areas of the yard.

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