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2010 St. Aubins Garden

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#1 ·
The gardening season has started for the year!
- Crocuses starting to come up. Daffodils well on their way. Tulips just broken through the turf.

- Pruned the roses and re-set trellis for the climbers. The mulch must be full of bugs because the chickens were going crazy today digging through the mulch. So, I guess roses were also fertilized today :wink:.

- Cut down some of my neighbors bamboo that broke over onto our property - so now I have a new trellis for my clematis and one for my honeysuckle.

- Cut a scrub tree out of my quince that is making a real effort this year after last spring's heavy pruning.

- Cut dead scrub out of perennial garden. Pruned butterfly bushes back hard.

On the plate for next week - starting lettuce and other spring greens in cold frame. And a resolution that I am going to get sunflowers in on time this year so I can have a 'fence' of them.
 
#3 ·
Finished cleaning up flower gardens this week. Veggie gardens next week.

My quince is setting all kinds of fat buds - exciting considering it had only three blooms last year. Not bad for a 50 year old shrub. Think I'll prune it hard again after the blossoms are done.
 
#5 ·
I have one sweet almond that didn't make it through the winter :( But everything else is coming up dandy.

Saw the short bus for the local old folks home stop by to admire the crocuses on friday :) :proud: My first daffodil opened today. :thumbup: So I think they'll be back.

SO happy to see my sod from last year made it through the snows (and DH's plowing :laughing:).
 
#7 ·
DUnder - don't fret. It's supposed to be about accountability for me and a record of what I did when. I am always trying to remember: when did I prune that bush? when did I mulch? when did I plant the peas.....

So, in that vein:
- weeded around front steps - creeping phlox on mailbox side has come back this year!
- only two glory of the snow up
- picked every single effin emerald ash shoot out of front bed
- Abby (my neighbor's daughter) picked up sticks for 1 hour.
 
#8 ·
- way more glory of the snow up than can be counted.
- phlox growing and blooming
- first of the big hostas are peeking through the mulch.
- Big oak out front has bloomed early this year.
- all the azeleas survived the snow.
- but the rosemary did not :(
- Planted seeds 3-22 inside for lupines, sweet peas, cypress vine, chives and salad mix. Salad mix needs to go into the ground ASAP.
- Grass is sprouting all around
- Ditch lilies are taking off in the front and back by the garage!
- Red tulips are up and survived most of the punishing rain.
- Primroses are turning into MONSTERS - seriously, must remember to take some pics.
 
#9 ·
My Lupines reseed from leaving the seeds on the ground thru the winter
I've moved a lot of stuff to the greenhouse already
Daffodils may start blooming this weekend
Rhubard in the Gardens is coming up....we never eat it
Sunflower & Marigold seeds are sprouting in the greenhouse

Spring is almost here fer real
 
#12 ·
Re: Lupines I started 32 seeds and only have around 18 germinations :furious:

My hens have been enjoying the spring:

Don't take a dust bath in my rose garden must not translate into chicken....


My Polish Crested, Camilla, and her shadow.
 
#13 ·
Maybe the hens ate the seeds :laughing:
I have probably over 100 Lupine seedlings coming up
I just moved one plant of the sandy part of the old driveway
It was a decent size, I actually moved one from there last year
Must not have dug up all the roots & it regrew
Once some of them get bigger I'm going to transplant some to the new side garden

I have pink, purple & blue
I tried to order some red Lupine plants & they sent me a different color...2x
When I told them I already had those, they gave them to me for free





 
#16 ·
I picked a mix of colors, I don't have a 'color scheme'.

Oh, I will never pass up an offer for seeds - Thanks! I could trade cosmos seeds (pinks and yellows). When it gets later in the year lets set up a swap :)

Peace
LFW
 
#18 ·
I just transplanted a couple dozen Lupine seedlings over to an area by the stream
Also transplanted some that had roots & one decent size Lupine
They say you can't transplant them
But I have moved quite a few without any problem
I try to move the seedlings early in the year
This is the 1st batch to move...there will be many more

I want a ~6'x12' area filled with Lupines
I may even plant some in the wooded area
 
#19 ·
Planted 50 or so flowering sweet peas in front of the front porch to go with the Hostas. Started them 3-22-10 and didn't really expect them to be ready to go into the ground until we get back from vacation. Popped them in the ground today (must water until we leave) because they were climbing out of the seed tray.


- Clematis are both 'up'.

And tick season has come early this year. Pulled the first one off a dog. Guess it's back to frontline every 3-4 weeks. YUCK!
 
#20 ·
My Clematis has started to leaf too
I cleaned out a front garden & raised part of it near the front steps
I uncovered dozens of lupine seedlings
You will have plenty of seeds from your plants this year
The 1st year I brought the seeds in for the Winter...then planted in the Spring
They didn't do so well, so now I just leave them outside
I'm hoping you get some different colors then what I have

I should get some peas going to
I like them raw & fresh off the vine...but won't eat them when cooked
Can't beat this weather....we had a little rain today
Just enough to stop me from cutting siding with my skil saw
Hoping tomorrow will be better
 
#22 ·
2011 Update - rose garden pics

My roses look like a Major Leaguer has been feeding them PEDs all winter.



Where once there were two clumps of Ilex (holly), and thence there was a mud pit, now there is Rose garden:



Climbing Peace - MAJOR bloom producer, susceptible to black spot, but nothing some fungicide won't help.

 
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