From beloved commentor Satby:
I thought I would share some “starting over” garden pictures. I’m trying to recreate an urban version of my former country garden, so no fruit trees, only blueberry bushes, but one of most of the other plantings I had.
First, a long shot of the garden beds left by the previous owner, now filled with the iris and daffodils I both moved and had gifted to me as a housewarming by the wonderful Watergirl.
The second picture is of one of the five tiny lilacs I planted. They should grow enough to start blooming in about three years.
The third pic is of one of the tiny arborday.org trees already growing like crazy. I block all of them with tubes or something so they don’t get mowed. In just a couple of years this will be my height.
Last, but not least: a picture of the hydroponic cloner I bought with some cuttings from my old shrubs. I was going to just buy replacements, but the Amber Jubilee ninebark is running about $55Â now, which was almost the same price as the cloner. So I staged a raid last night and got cuttings of it, my azelia, rhododendron, currant bush, hydrangea, and weigela. Japanese maple too. If only half of them root it pays for the cloner!
Bonus shot [at the top]: The last of the pretty pink daffodils Watergirl got me. What a great gift, and friend!
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The first half-dozen mail-order tomato plants arrived from the major retailer Thursday, just in time for a predicted week of cold drizzle. Also, I mostly ordered from this company to get one particular variety that wasn’t available from my first-choice suppliers… guess which plant didn’t get included?
(I sent them an email, and they swear they’ll send me the right plant next week. The Spousal Unit wants to try putting some rootpouches in “his” part of the yard, where I don’t think they’ll get enough sun, so the sent-in-error ‘prolific slicer’ gets to be the first sacrifice.)
What’s going on in your garden(s) this week?
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