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Not an overly productive weekend, but I did some work on things that needed work, including the garden.
Planted the tomato plants out in one of the foam boxes. Two tomato plants, well there's actually three, but one blew off the steps during the storm, broke its stems just before the lower leaves and then got eaten by snails so I'm not that optimistic about it surviving. Put foam box on porch near door so I can bring it when it's cold (tomatoes shouldn't be put out until October, show week traditionally).
In the other foam box, is my horse radish plant. I have great difficulty getting this to grow. With me first attempt, about 20 years ago, the muscovy duck and her 12 ducklings trmapled across my herb garden & ate it to the ground. Succesive attempts haven't fare much better, even without feathered intervention. The current plant has a tiny leaf about half a cm long. I've covered it with a plastic soft drink bottle to try & protect it from predators :\ Also in that box is my asparagus plant, which I thought had died but it's sending up spears. Wonder if they're edible.
Put most of the bronze fennels seedlings into small pots on their own in the hope someone else might like them. It's a lovely plant but I don't want 2 dozen of them,thank you very much.
They'd taken over the pot the green lavender died in :( now I can use that for a rose, which means I can buy another one. The other roses I left where they are, except for the Cardinal, which I moved to my biggest pot, so it can grow big and flower a lot. Put a couple of other plants in with it but I don't know what they are. One is possibly liy of the valley, similar leaves and I had one somewhere. The other is a Big bulb. There is a second big bulb down beside the steps. I don't know what either are. Could be the Belladonna Lily I bought at a school fair a couple of years ago & unpotted when I moved, could be the (something I wanted) bulb I bought at an open garden last summer or it could be the (whateveritwas) that was sharing the pot with the blue thing I bought from a backyard seller last summer. Hopefully it'll flower and I'll know.
Unlike the unknown plant over in the corner which hasn't flowered in a couple of years. It was originally an unknown plant sharing a pot with a pretty, red sage. I assumed the sage had thrown some odd leaves until I ntoiced it was a separate plant and have recently flowered. A couple of years ago. Waiting for it to flower again so I can ID it. It's possibly bergamot, I did buy a plant a few years ago, but the stems aren't right.
Noted the bearded irises in the pot are still progressing, but the ones in the garden seem to have disappeared. The bearded iris that I paid too much for last year is still coming along too. Hopefully, it'll flower.
Everything else seems to be happily growing and the nasturtiums are getting a bit of competition, so they're not quite to invasive.
(Incidently, the rose pictured is Castle Balthasar, which seems to be rather an obscure variety of which I can find very little. I picked it up in the clearance section of a hardware centre nursery, $5 marked down from $30+. When its open it's a rather ordinary light red with yellow centre but it has the most lovely buds & it's very enthusiastic. A few weeks after I bought it at the end of the rose season (I thought) it was covered in flowers. Never seen so many roses on such a small bush. )
Not an overly productive weekend, but I did some work on things that needed work, including the garden.
Planted the tomato plants out in one of the foam boxes. Two tomato plants, well there's actually three, but one blew off the steps during the storm, broke its stems just before the lower leaves and then got eaten by snails so I'm not that optimistic about it surviving. Put foam box on porch near door so I can bring it when it's cold (tomatoes shouldn't be put out until October, show week traditionally).
In the other foam box, is my horse radish plant. I have great difficulty getting this to grow. With me first attempt, about 20 years ago, the muscovy duck and her 12 ducklings trmapled across my herb garden & ate it to the ground. Succesive attempts haven't fare much better, even without feathered intervention. The current plant has a tiny leaf about half a cm long. I've covered it with a plastic soft drink bottle to try & protect it from predators :\ Also in that box is my asparagus plant, which I thought had died but it's sending up spears. Wonder if they're edible.
Put most of the bronze fennels seedlings into small pots on their own in the hope someone else might like them. It's a lovely plant but I don't want 2 dozen of them,thank you very much.
They'd taken over the pot the green lavender died in :( now I can use that for a rose, which means I can buy another one. The other roses I left where they are, except for the Cardinal, which I moved to my biggest pot, so it can grow big and flower a lot. Put a couple of other plants in with it but I don't know what they are. One is possibly liy of the valley, similar leaves and I had one somewhere. The other is a Big bulb. There is a second big bulb down beside the steps. I don't know what either are. Could be the Belladonna Lily I bought at a school fair a couple of years ago & unpotted when I moved, could be the (something I wanted) bulb I bought at an open garden last summer or it could be the (whateveritwas) that was sharing the pot with the blue thing I bought from a backyard seller last summer. Hopefully it'll flower and I'll know.
Unlike the unknown plant over in the corner which hasn't flowered in a couple of years. It was originally an unknown plant sharing a pot with a pretty, red sage. I assumed the sage had thrown some odd leaves until I ntoiced it was a separate plant and have recently flowered. A couple of years ago. Waiting for it to flower again so I can ID it. It's possibly bergamot, I did buy a plant a few years ago, but the stems aren't right.
Noted the bearded irises in the pot are still progressing, but the ones in the garden seem to have disappeared. The bearded iris that I paid too much for last year is still coming along too. Hopefully, it'll flower.
Everything else seems to be happily growing and the nasturtiums are getting a bit of competition, so they're not quite to invasive.
(Incidently, the rose pictured is Castle Balthasar, which seems to be rather an obscure variety of which I can find very little. I picked it up in the clearance section of a hardware centre nursery, $5 marked down from $30+. When its open it's a rather ordinary light red with yellow centre but it has the most lovely buds & it's very enthusiastic. A few weeks after I bought it at the end of the rose season (I thought) it was covered in flowers. Never seen so many roses on such a small bush. )
