Thank you, BenInNM:
These photos are actually from Spring of 2024!
Primroses – this is from early March. I was feeling down towards the end of February so I went to buy flowers and all I could find were these Primroses, which I do like. Then we got a light snow in March.
Cholla – a cholla from the same snowstorm. This and pretty much all the cacti in my yard I grew from cuttings. I just take a branch – about 1 foot long or so – and just stick it in the ground. Water it well for a couple of weeks and then it just goes. This one is about 7 years old.
Pyracantha – a pyracantha from the same snowstorm. I don’t think these are native to Albuquerque, but they do very well here. This one gets almost no water and it thrives. It also has nasty 1-2″ long thorns so it fits in well on that score too!
Tulip – my bulbs did poorly this year, but last year I had some very nice tulip, daffodil, hyacinth, and iris blooms.
Top photo: Irises – as I mentioned my irises did very well. I really should have divided them in the fall so they were a little subdued this year. What’s interesting is they used to be very prolific in the back yard where it was sunnier and now are prolific on what is the north side of the house and not as sunny.
WindowBox – a variety of flowers just outside my back window. I never remember all their names.
Roses – this rose bush was here when I bought the house in 2011. Its first bloom of the year is always incredibly prolific although this year it, along with a lot of my plants, really suffered over the winter. We had a very dry winter (not unusual) but it was also fairly warm. My personal theory – based on nothing – is that a lot of the plants weren’t as dormant as the usually would be so the drought affected them more.
Kita – and of course Kita the Sweet during her supervised outside time. Rolling in the dirt so she can bring it all inside!
Let me know if you have any questions.
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What’s going on in your garden(s), this week?
War for Ukraine Day 1,227: A Brief(ish) Saturday Night Update
JPL
Lovely!
sab
I moved last year and left my garden behind to my stepson and his partner. She is an avid and competent gardener and is taking good care of my plants.
In the new house the yard was a wasteland last Fall. I had no idea what promise there was come Spring.
Daffodils everywhere. Then daylylies. ( Sic? Bad spelling?) Then wild asters with the bees. And three huge milkweeds. With their bees and butterflies. Neighbor on our property fringe was mowing the hostas, so I moved them in the dead of night and they are thriving.
I am old so everything else is in containers. I thought I was moving to a wasteland but plants are growing everywhere here. I spend hours a day just watering the little guys.
Baud
Wrong thread
sab
@Baud: Those Christianists are slimy little partners, aren’t they?
Fuck you Baud. Tricked me into commenting to wrong thread.
Mustang Bobby
When I lived in Albuquerque, we had a small garden in the back of our patio home that included a lot of native plants, but we also had some roses, morning glories and a small palm that endured the cold and occasional snowfall. Thanks for the lovely reminder of how beautiful the desert can be.
sab
@sab: Also neglected roses. Some climbing, others not.
sab
Hot day ahead for us olds. Last coat of whatever (sealant/ no color stain) on our deck. Meant to do it yesterday, but it was 91° at 3 and we are old. Husband thinks 10 am, so hopefully I can start at 9 and be done before he wakes up.
sab
Plants have been glorious this year. Hostas and daylilies.
sab
Fireworks are mostly over, and the new cats are trusting that we will protect them. So a good year in cat herding.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Bones!
mrmoshpotato
@sab: Hosta la vista and🎵livin’ la vida loca🎵?
mrmoshpotato
Mmmmmm A Change Of Seasons
Erin
I’m sorry for the off-topic post, but in the last couple of weeks the RSS feed URLs that I’ve been using have stopped working. What is the current working URL for the RSS feed? Thanks!
MazeDancer
Yes, you said just stick it in the ground and water, but still impressed at your propagation of cacti.
When I lived in Santa Fe, it always snowed in April and October. ABQ is lower and further south, so maybe you have March and November on which to rely.
stinger
As a Midwesterner, I have to chuckle at the term “snowstorm”, if that’s what’s there the next day!
Gorgeous iris and windowbox, especially, but all look lovely. Especially Kita the Sweet.
BenInNM
@stinger: Yes – I absolutely love the “snow storms” here. There was once we got 8 or 9 inches of snow overnight and it looked so lovely the next morning. Then the sun comes up and 90% of it is gone by 10 am
kalakal
Gorgeous. Love those colours
Still sticking to the pattern of thunderstorms every day here in West Central Fl, normal for summer except in the past they’d normally be done in an hour, now they last for 6
MagdaInBlack
Ahhh, the gorgeous purple Iris. And Kita the Sweet as bonus. Thank You.
Ruby the Giant Geranium, after being cut back this spring, has 15 blossoms. The cuttings I shoved in a pot ‘o’dirt have 5. Even the little Zebra plant has sprung a blossom, as it does once a year. At least some things like the godawful heat we’ve had.
eta: I have a ground floor neighbor who has a lovely little flower garden in front of her patio. Her Trumpet Vine is looking very very happy. She doesn’t speak much English and I have no Polish, but we somehow manage to communicate about our “gardens.” =-)
Gvg
It’s amazing how much better things look with regular rain. Florida plants do not thrive when it’s dry. Downside is it always looks like I should mow or edge. Summer is heating up and I will mostly be shade gardening for the next few months. Also collecting seeds. The rainlilies love this weather and produce lots of seeds. I meant to quit propagating more as I have many now, but the habit is strong and I love them so. I have 10 trays of seeds started already. Pentas are recovered from the winter freeze and blooming and so are the crinums and salvias.
CaseyL
I have a container garden on the big deck off the living room, which faces east and gets a lot of sun (when there is sun to be had; this is Seattle, after all). This year I added tomatoes to my tiny “farm”: two big containers, with starts bought at a local nursery.
I water everyone regularly. But something weird happened to my tomatoes: alone among my containers they got SOAKED. Not by me, and I don’t see how it could rain and only flood those two pots. Anyway, when I say “soaked,” I mean flooded: standing water up to the brim of both pots. I poured it off, dug some holes in the dirt, and hoped the poor little plants would survive their near-drowning.
Well, it’s now 3 weeks later. The taller plant, which seemed to recover first and better, has done very little but get taller. The smaller plant, which looked so much worse off, has grown two little tomatoes! I am flabbergasted and happy and keeping a close eye on them.
To recap: I don’t know how those two pots got flooded, and the one that looked the worse off is the one making fruit. Go figure.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
Those are pansies and pinks (carnation relatives) on your window box. Pretty!